This book explores the foundation, history, and theory of intelligent adaptive systems, providing scholars, researchers, and practitioners with a fundamental resource on topics such as the emergence of intelligent adaptive systems in social sciences, biologically inspired artificial social...

Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic...

The elements of collective decision making -- Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning -- Individual reasoning within a reasoning community -- The generic/actual argument model -- Communicating reasoning and dialectics -- Narrative reasoning -- Ontologies and the semantic web -- Pragmatic...