The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (SWO) is a collaborative sound performance project that has been actively performing for the past several years. The basic idea is that each participant plays a sine wave, and by changing its frequency and volume, creates a collection of sine waves as a collective sound representation. Although all SWO works use the same sound representation (i.e., sine waves), different...

The collective behaviours that emerge from models based on formal rules are limited, especially when the models are designed to replicate human behaviour which, sometimes, contradict these formal rules. Mandiau et al. [1] showed how the possibility for an agent not to respect the highway code, formal rule, led to a more realistic collective behaviour. We propose to extend this approach to the c...

We examine the emergence of collective dynamical structures and complexity in a network of interacting populations of neuronal oscillators. Each population consists of a heterogeneous collection of globally-coupled theta neurons, which are a canonical representation of Type-1 neurons. For simplicity, the populations are arranged in a fully autonomous driver-response configuration, and we obtain...

In both individual and collective decision making, the space of alternatives from which the agent (or the group of agents) has to choose often has a combinatorial (or multi-attribute) structure. We give an introduction to preference handling in combinatorial domains in the context of collective decision making, and show that the considerable body of work on preference representation and elicita...

This paper presents an approach for collective activity recognition. Collective activities are activities performed by multiple persons, such as queueing in a line and talking together. To recognize them, the action context (AC) descriptor [1] encodes the “apparent” relation (e.g. a group crossing and facing “right”), however this representation is sensitive to viewpoint change. We instead prop...

We present some initial forays into the questions that underlie the philosophy of the Web around the notions of representation, enactive search, the extended mind, and collective intelligence.

We often speak as though collectivities can be in mental states. Israel fears further attacks from Hezbollah; Microsoft intends to unveil a new product in the spring; and, Starbucks believes that it needs to present a friendlier and less overtly monopolistic image. However, two major difficulties stand in the way of understanding such ascriptions of mentality literally. First, there is a preval...