Collective intelligence (or CI) has recently emerged as a potential magnifier of design thinking. A surge of internet based social computing applications are achieving surprising results from people thinking collectively, without the aid or restrictions of formal organisation, supervision, or even payment in the conventional sense. Some of the best known applications, such as Threadless and Top...

doI: 10.1037/14040-012 The Psychology of Meaning, Keith d. Markman, travis proulx, and Matthew J. lindberg (editors) copyright © 2013 by the american psychological association. all rights reserved. adversity is common. Most individuals will experience a personal tragedy in their lifetimes, whether it is a sudden unexpected loss, traumatic injury, or life-threatening illness (seery, Holman, & si...

Collective intelligence is shared (or group) intelligence that emerges when aggregating the collective efforts of many individuals (Woolley et al., 2010). The success of collective intelligence (CI) systems rely heavily on the effectiveness of the aggregation mechanism (Surowiecki, 2005). Individuals may contribute a simple data element (for instance, a number representing an estimated or predi...

BACKGROUND Although neighborhoods with more collective efficacy have better health in general, recent work suggests that social norms and collective efficacy may in combination influence health behaviors such as smoking. METHODS Using data from the New York Social Environment Study (conducted in 2005; n=4000), we examined the separate and combined associations of neighborhood collective effic...

myths show the layers of human being's collective unconsciousness and include a  nations' symbolic and mysterious conceptions. banugoshasbnameh is a mythic verse book including mythic functions. in banugoshasbnameh, banugoshasb is a warring and heroic archetype. her functions remind the glory of   women's role in agricultural era, the era which is famed for its matriarchy and in ...

New developments in HPC technology in terms of increasing computing power on multi/many core processors, high bandwidth memory/IO subsystems and communication interconnects, pose a direct impact on software and runtime system development. These advancements have become useful in producing high-performance collective communication interfaces that integrate efficiently on a wide variety of platfo...

â  introduction â  ethnic disputes and collective aggressions are observable in each period of history and are more evident in traditional and nomadic communities. this issue has had many life and property damages in the past and present times and it has also prevented social development to flourish. based on the damages of collective aggression, the researchers attempt to study the fundamental...

Identifying the most influential spreaders that maximize information flow is a central question in network theory. Recently, a scalable method called "Collective Influence (CI)" has been put forward through collective influence maximization. In contrast to heuristic methods evaluating nodes' significance separately, CI method inspects the collective influence of multiple spreaders. Despite that...