Evolutionary Collaborative Knowledge Project for FET Open Proposal

People:

• Bruce Edmonds, CPM, MMU, Manchester, UK.
• Leor Gruendlinger, CLEA, VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
• Francis Heylighen, PCP & CLEA, VUB, Brussels, Belgium.

Documents:

• Bootstrapping Social Intelligence, 14 July 1999, Bruce Edmonds (HTML)
• Supporting Collective Intelligence on the Web, 28 Oct 1999, Francis Heylighen (RTF, Word, PDF, HTML)
• Notes about possible Collaboration with DEI, Padova, 10 Dec 1999, Massimo Melucci (Text)
• First Draft of the SOCK proposal, 3 Feb 2000, Bruce Edmonds (HTML, RTF, Word, PDF)

Archive of Mails about this proposal (bsi@mmu.ac.uk)

Possible lists for study (for a list of archives at this site see here):

• alt.agriculture.fruit
• sci.agriculture.fruit
• news.agriculture.fruit

Background Papers (e.g. algorithms):

• "Learning from Mistakes"  - learning by negative feedback
• "A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects" - using links to represent context-like constructs
• Bootstrapping knowledge representations: from entailment meshes via semantic nets to learning webs
• Algorithms for the self-organisation of distributed, multi-user networks. Possible application to the future World Wide Web
• Probabilistic Networks and Explanatory Coherence
• Coherence as Constraint Satisfaction

Links:

• FET Open
• GMD: Social Web Research Program