Digital technologies are reshaping every field of social and economic lives, so do they in the world of scientific knowledge. "The New Challenges of Knowledge" aims at understanding how the new digital technologies alter the production, diffusion and valorization of knowledge. We propose to give...

Recently, nature has stimulated many successful techniques, algorithms, and computational applications allowing conventionally difficult problems to be solved through novel computing systems. This book provides the latest findings in nature-inspired algorithms and their applications for...

"This book examines the emerging computing paradigm of Collective Intelligence (CI) and offers the computer and information science communities as it continue to move toward a new period of fully technology-integrated businesses"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the emerging realm of swarm intelligence, which finds its basis in the natural social behavior of animals, and applies to apply this behavior to independent intelligent agents, creating complex solutions for real world applications"--Provided by publisher.