<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Please distribute to others who might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>********************************************************</div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>********************************************************<br>Collective Intelligence 2012<br>MIT, Cambridge, MA<br>April 18-20, 2012<br><a href="http://www.ci2012.org/">www.ci2012.org</a><br>********************************************************<br><br>This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of fields relevant to understanding and designing collective intelligence of many types. <div><br>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:<br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• human computation<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• social computing<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• crowdsourcing<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets)<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• group memory and problem-solving<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• deliberative democracy<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• animal collective behavior</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• organizational design<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• public policy design (e.g., regulatory reform)<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• ethics of collective intelligence (e.g., "digital sweatshops")<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• computational models of group search and optimization<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• emergence and evolution of intelligence<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• new technologies for making groups smarter<br></div><div><br></div>See <a href="http://www.ci2012.org/">www.ci2012.org</a> for more details about topics and submission format.<br><br>FORMAT<br>The conference will consist of<br>· invited talks from prominent researchers in different areas related to collective intelligence<br>· oral paper presentations<br>· poster sessions.<br><br>SUBMISSION<br>Papers of three types are invited:<br>· Reports of original research results<br>· Reviews of previous research in one or more fields relevant to collective intelligence<br>· Position papers about research agendas for the field of collective intelligence<br><br>Some of the papers submitted will be invited for oral presentation, others for presentation as posters.<br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>Paper submission deadline: November 4, 2011<br>Notification of paper acceptance / rejection: January 15 2012<br>Camera-ready papers due: February 15, 2012<br>Conference dates: April 18 – 20, 2012<br><br>CHAIRS<br>Thomas Malone (MIT)<br>Luis von Ahn (Carnegie Melllon University)<br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br>Robert Goldstone (Indiana University)<br>Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research)<br>Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)<br>Andrew Lo (MIT)</div><div>Paul Resnick (University of Michigan)<br>Duncan Watts (Yahoo! Research)</div><div><br></div><div>SPONSOR </div><div>National Science Foundation<br><br></div></body></html>