Collective Cognition Workshop Proceedings
Mathematical Foundations of Distributed Intelligence

Instructions for Contributors.

Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity
Published by Oxford University Press

Topics addressed in the book:

• The mathematical foundations of collective cognition
• Computation- and information-theoretic bases of cognition
• Metrics for detecting the emergence of collective intelligence
• Articulating prototype systems for formal analysis and simulation
• Robustness of collective cognition

Contents of the book (tentative):

• Reviews of recent observations of far-from-equilibrium behavior of multi-agent systems, learning agents in collaborative environments, selfish agents that cooperate `unintentionally''.
• Formation of teams or coalitions of agents and behavior changes in ``team player'' agents, adaptivity in the interaction structure for the agents, scaling in collaborative multi-agent systems.
• Aapplications and limitations of economic principles, game theory, biological theory and (e.g., evolutionary theory and population dynamics).
• Authors are asked to synthesize their own work with that in other fields to help formulate and point to a comprehensive theory of collective cognition.

Target Audience

• Cognitive science, cognitive ethology, situated agents, emergent computation, distributed computation
• General equilibrium theory, bounded rationality, institutional economics, information economics, mechanism design
• Evolutionary game theory, reinforcement learning, adaptive control and robustness
• Cultural evolution, cognitive sociology, sociology and philosophy of science, computational organizational theory
• Collective phenomena in physics, econophysics

Preliminary Dates and Deadlines