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The socio-technical superorganism vision

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We sketch the future vision of socio-technical superorganisms and overview two emerging application area heading towards the vision. Following, we identify the key challenges in engineering self-organizing ICT systems that can work as a superorganism.

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Sassi, A., and Zambonelli, F. Towards an agent coordination framework for smart mobility services. In 8th International workshop on agents in traffic and transportation (May 2014).
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Zambonelli, F. Toward sociotechnical urban superorganisms. IEEE Computer 45, 8 (2012), 76--78.

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UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication
September 2014
1409 pages
ISBN:9781450330473
DOI:10.1145/2638728
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UbiComp '14: The 2014 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
September 13 - 17, 2014
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