Welcome to the European Network for Social Intelligence (SINTELNET)
Traditional distinctions between the natural, the social and the artificial are becoming more and more blurred as radically new forms of Information Technology-enabled social environments are formed. These changes create the need to re-explore basic concepts of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences. The aim of the European Network for Social Intelligence is twofold:
- To look into those IT-enabled domains as a means for the critical examination of those basic concepts and,
- To propose new approaches to understand and develop future IT-enabled social situations, by adapting and applying traditional concepts.
SINTELNET General Meeting and Meeting with the Onlife Group
The European Network for Social Intelligence will hold a general meeting open to all members in Birmingham, UK on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. The meeting will take place during the AISB/IACAP 2012 Alan Turing Congress and all Sintelnet members are cordially invited to attend.
Please note that the network is involved in the Social Turn - SNAMAS symposium https://sites.google.com/site/socialturnsnamasaisbiacap2012/ that will take place just before the general meeting, on July 2-3.
Following the general meeting of the network we plan to organize a joint meeting with members of the Onlife initiative. The Onlife Initiative is a part of the Digital Futures project of the European Commission. It aims to explore the extent to which the digital transition impacts societal expectations towards policy making. To this effect, it explores the power of repurposing and redescribing concepts such as agency, responsibility or identity, with a view to grasp in renewed terms the challenges brought about by the digital transition. The meeting between Onlife and Sintelnet aims at sharing information between the two projects and exploiting potential synergies. Please do join us if you possibly can.
Further information about the Onlife-Initiative can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/digital_futures/the-onlife-initiative/index_en.htm
The two meetings will take place back to back in the afternoon of July 4. In order to plan these, it is important that we know in advance who is likely to attend. If you would like to attend, please send an email to david.pearce@upm.es and to Judith Simon <judith.simon@univie.ac.at> who is an organizer of the Social Turn - SNAMAS symposium and is kindly acting as liaison with the Onlife group.
Once participant numbers are fairly clear, we will post details and a timetable. The meeting will probably last from around 14.30 to 18.00.
We hope to see you in Birmingham.
International Workshop on "The Cognitive Foundations of Group Attitudes and Social Interaction"
Toulouse, May 31-June 1, 2012
Workshop on Formal Models of Communication
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2012 14:00 – 15:30, 06-10 August, Opole, Poland
SINTELNET at COLLINT
We are pleased to announce that SINTELNET will have a major presence this year at COLLINT. Collective Intentionality VIII, the eighth in a series of large-scale events will take place at Manchester University, 28-31 August 2012. The conference will include a special SINTELNET symposium on Cooperative Action and Reasoning. The invited speakers are Nick Bardsley (Reading), A. J. Julius (UCLA) and Raimo Tuomela (Helsinki). COLLINT is an multidisciplinary event covering many aspects of cooperative action, reasoning and intentions. It solicits papers from fields such as philosophy, psychology, economics, computer science or political theory.
SINTELNET support for SOCIAL TURN - SNMAS
SINTELNET is a key partner in the Symposium on SOCIAL COMPUTING - SOCIAL COGNITION - SOCIAL NETWORKS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS that will be organized as part of the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 in honour of Alan Turing, held on July 2nd to 6th, 2012 at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. Visit http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/ & http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/ SOCIAL TURN - SNMAS is jointly organized by The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) [http://www.aisb.org.uk] and The International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) [http://www.ia-cap.org] . Topics include all the main scientific areas covered by the network. SINTELNET will support the invited speakers Bernhard Rieder, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam [http://rieder.polsys.net/], and Marek Sergot, Imperial College, London [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mjs/], and will offer a limited number of student grants.
Contact Information
SINTELNET Coordination: David Pearce (david.pearce@upm.es)
IT-related issues: Lourdes Tavira (ltavira@iiia.csic.es)
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