This study will explore the “indignados” (outraged) protests in Spain, characterized by their endorsement of participatory democracy and their use of collective leadership in decisionmaking and camp organization. Collective leadership involves multiple people collaborating in leadership to attain their common goals (Méndez, Howell, & Bishop, 2011). Using a grounded theory methodology based on t...

In this paper the notion of collective intention in teams of agents involved in cooperative problem solving (CPS) in multiagent systems (MAS) is investigated. Starting from individual intentions , goals, and beliefs defining agents' local asocial motivational and informational attitudes, we arrive at an understanding of a collective intention in a team of agents. The presented definitions are r...

The deenitions of cooperation to shared plans and joint intentionality have traditionally included subsidiary goals: they aim at coordinating the part of the group's action which goes beyond the control of individual intentionality. In this paper, we present a deenition of collective acting which explains goals aiming at the group's coordination as a result of the interaction of goal adoption, ...

Individuals collectively participate in all manner of endeavors including, for example, babysitting cooperatives, bowling leagues, and community associations. And yet failure to produce collective goods when they are desired is also widespread, such as when childcare or group leisure activities are unavailable, or communities pollute their local environment. Producing most collective goods enta...

Margaret Gilbert explores the phenomenon referred to in everyday ascriptions of beliefs to groups. She refers to this type of phenomenon as “collective belief” and calls the types of groups that are the bearers of such beliefs “plural subjects”. I argue that the attitudes that groups adopt that Gilbert refers to as “collective beliefs” are not a species of belief in an important and central sen...

Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) are heterogeneous populations of autonomous task-oriented agents that cooperate on common goals forming a collective system. This class of systems is typically composed of a huge number of interacting agents that dynamically adjust and combine their behaviour to achieve specific goals. Existing tools and languages are typically not able to describe the complex ...

Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) are heterogeneous populations of autonomous task-oriented agents that cooperate on common goals forming a collective system. This class of systems is typically composed of a huge number of interacting agents that dynamically adjust and combine their behaviour to achieve specific goals. Existing tools and languages are typically not able to describe the complex ...

Misalignment of educational and career goals (i.e., educational aspirations expressed are inadequate for attaining one's desired occupation) is associated with lower educational attainment and a lack of college readiness, and may contribute to persistent educational and employment disparities. Drawing on data from 249 sixth graders in low-income schools, this research examines misalignment betw...

Collective action will be effective in achieving broader social change goals to the extent that it influences public opinion yet the degree to which collective action "works" in changing opinion is rarely studied. Experiment 1 (n = 158) showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue ...

This paper identifies four design issues for Collective Remembering (CR). We first review the current main areas where CR is being explored, namely organisational memory, sociable sharing and reflective sharing, and for each identify key challenges. We apply Clark’s (1996) Common Ground framework for communication to understand these different aspects of sharing. We use this framework to identi...