Topica is an application that enriches the Social Web with semantic data, to enable collective perception of Points of Interest (POIs), which are human constructs that describe information about locations (e.g., restaurants, attractions, cities). Topica provides an extra layer of information, compared to existing applications for browsing POIs, by modelling hidden characteristics of POIs, by: (...

This is the first paper on textual case-based reasoning to employ collective classification, a methodology for simultaneously classifying related cases that has consistently attained higher accuracies than standard classification approaches when cases are related. Thus far, case-based classifiers have not been examined for their use in collective classification. We introduce Case-Based Collecti...

An extension of an abstract argumentation framework is introduced that provides a direct representation of global conflicts between sets of arguments. The extension, called collective argumentation, turns out to be suitable for representing semantics of disjunctive logic programs. Collective argumentation theories are shown to possess a four-valued semantics, and are closely related to multiple...

Proportional representation (PR) is one of the central principles in voting. Elegant rules with compelling PR axiomatic properties have the potential to be adopted for several important collective decision making settings. I survey some recent ideas and results on axioms and rules for proportional representation in committee voting.

This text presents the cognitive-ergonomics approach to design, in both its individual and collective form. It focuses on collective design with respect to individual design. The theoretical framework adopted is that of information processing, specified for design problems. The cognitive characteristics of design problems are presented: the effects of their ill-defined character and of the diff...

Collective behavior involving distally separate regions in a protein is known to widely affect its function. In this article, we present an online approach to study and characterize collective behavior in proteins as molecular dynamics (MD) simulations progress. Our representation of MD simulations as a stream of continuously evolving data allows us to succinctly capture spatial and temporal de...

An operator sum representation is derived for a decoherence-free subspace (DFS) and used to (i) show that DFSs are the class of quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) with fixed, unitary recovery operators, and (ii) find explicit representations for the Kraus operators of collective decoherence. We demonstrate how this can be used to construct a concatenated DFS-QECC code which protects against...

Within the Feynman Vernon path integral formalism and in the Markovian limit we consider the time evolution of a collective subsystem coupled to a bath of intrinsic degrees of freedom We show that dissipation leads to major qualitative and quantitative modi cations of the time evolution of the density matrix of the collective subsystem In either the spatial momentumor energy representation the ...