DISCOLI Workshop on DIStributed COLlective Intelligence

Editions

2025 edition: 4th DISCOLI workshop on DIStributed COLlective Intelligence, co-located with the 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS 2025) that will take place in Tuscany (Lucca), Italy, June 9-11, 2025.
2024 edition: 3rd DISCOLI workshop on DIStributed COLlective Intelligence, co-located with the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS 2024) that will take place in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, April 29 – May 1, 2024.
2023 edition: 2nd DISCOLI workshop on DIStributed COLlective Intelligence, co-located with the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS 2023) that will take place in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus, Jun 19 - 21, 2023.
2022 edition: 1st DISCOLI workshop on DIStributed COLlective Intelligence, co-located with the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2022) that will take place in Bologna, Italy, 10-13 July 2022.

Scope

Recent technological and scientific trends are promoting a vision where intelligence is more and more distributed and collective. Indeed, as computing and communication technologies are becoming increasingly pervasive, and complexity of systems is growing in terms of scale, heterogeneity, and interaction, hence the focus tends to shift from the intelligence of individual devices or agents to the collective intelligence emerging from a dynamic collection of diverse devices. Such intelligence would allow systems to address complex problems through proper coordination (e.g., cooperation or competition), to self-organise to promote functionality under changing environments, and to improve decision-making capabilities.
The workshop aims to provide a forum where researchers and practitioners can share and discuss fundamental concepts, models, and techniques for studying and implementing collectively intelligent distributed systems. Accordingly, it welcomes original research work providing ideas and technical contributions for promoting scientific discussion and practical adoption of collective intelligence mechanisms in engineered systems.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

Algorithms for self-adaptive/self-organizing system behaviour
Algorithms of artificial collective intelligence (e.g., multi-agent reinforcement learning)
Techniques for task-specific collective intelligence
Extraction of collective knowledge in Internet of Things systems
Collaborations of humans and artificial agents in socio-technical systems
Formal models for computational collective intelligence
Design and verification of emergent properties in distributed systems
Coordination models and languages
Programming languages for distributed CI systems
Languages for multi-tier programming or macro-programming
CI for distributed wearable computing systems
Techniques for crowd computing systems and applications
Applications of distributed CI for smart environments