Period: 18 September 2017 – 22 September 2017 (5 days)

Location: Villa del Grumello - Lake Como School of Advanced Studies, Como (Italy).

Summer School Website: http://www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/ComoSchool2017/

Deadline for registration: September 10, 2017.

Organizing Institution:

PhD School of the University of Milano-Bicocca with:

Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication

Department of Economics, Management and Statistics

Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods

Chairs

Stefania Bandini, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca

Matteo Manera, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milano-Bicocca

Mario Mezzanzanica, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca

Katsuhiro Nishinari, Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo

The past few years have seen a growing popularity and maturity of collective intelligence research, enabled by advances in information technology and complex systems sciences. Collective intelligence is defined as a shared or group intelligence emerging from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many agents (human or artifacts).

The discipline intrinsically grows in a cross-disciplinary research, involving computer science, cognitive science, political science, economics, organization theory, sociobiology, crowd and network sciences. Moreover, big-data research and applications create new opportunity to develop the design of new perspectives for the growth of collective intelligence towards many complex systems and organizations.

The main purpose of the School is to enable participants to the most relevant issues and tools supporting new research and application scenarios involving collective intelligence, focusing on the main topics of crowds (from crowdsourcing to crowd management), big-data (large and complex data sets coming from distributed sources to be dealt with innovative data processing application software), and community resilience (sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations).

The organization of the courses includes presentations, discussions and contributions in a cross-disciplinary environment, and will also propose research challenges and open issues, as well as concrete case studies
related to research and application projects. Participants will be asked to actively contribute in the discussions and PhD students will be required to develop a final project proposing a novel integrated
research or application proposal exploiting the knowledge and information acquired throughout the courses.

Lecturers

•        Stefania Bandini, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication - University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Carlo Biasior, Center for Research and Protection of Consumers, Trento (Italy)
•        Federico Cabitza, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication - University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Mirko Cesarini, University of Milan-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Florian Coulmas, IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies - University of Duisburg Essen (Duisburg, Germany)
•        Marco Guerzoni, Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Torino (Turin, Italy)
•        Hiroko Kudo, Chuo University (Tokyo, Japan)
•        Daniele Magazzeni, King’s College (London, UK)
•        Fabio Mercorio, University of Milan-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Enza Messina, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication - University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Massimiliano Nuccio, DESPINA - Big Data Lab, University of Torino (Turin, Italy)
•        Matteo Palmonari, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication - University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Antonio Picariello, University of Naples “Federico II” & CINI ITEM National Lab (Naples, Italy)
•        Raimondo Schettini, Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communication - University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
•        Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), College Of Management (CDM), Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation (CSI) (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Additional information and contact: 
Andrea Gorrini, Organization Chair: andrea.gorrini@unimib.it
Website for information and registration: http://www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/ComoSchool2017/