This book addresses the challenging topic of modeling adaptive networks, which often manifest inherently complex behavior. Networks by themselves can usually be modeled using a neat, declarative, and conceptually transparent Network-Oriented Modeling approach. In contrast, adaptive networks are networks that change their structure; for example, connections in Mental Networks usually change due to learning, while connections in Social Networks change due to various social dynamics. For adap...

This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes. It provides an alternative means of addressing complexity, better suited for its purpose than and effectively complementing traditional strategies involving isolation and separation assumptions.Network-oriented modeling allows high-level cognitive, affective and social models in the form of (cyclic) graphs to be constructed, which can be automatically transformed into...

This two-volume set LNAI 14810-14811 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2024, held in Leipzig, Germany, during September 9–11, 2024.The 59 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 234 submissions.Part I: collective intelligence and collective decision-making; deep learning techniques; natural language processing; data mining and machine ...

This two-set volume LNAI 16138-16139 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 12–15, 2025.The 67 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making; Co-operati...

There is much scientific literature on multimodal social interaction between human and/or virtual agents, and related multimodal synchrony analysis and behavioural adaptivity within the interaction such as affiliation and bonding. However, due to its strongly cyclical character, complexity, and adaptivity, mathematical formalisation and computational simulation of it is a nontrivial topic. Moreover, the subjective, agent-oriented perspective on synchrony analysis has not yet received much ...

This two-set volume LNAI 16138-16139 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 12–15, 2025.The 67 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making; Co-operati...

This two-volume set CCIS 2747-2748 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 12–15, 2025.The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making; Cooperative Strategies for De...

In recent years, it has been found that the way in which environmental factors can lead to the development of mental disorders can often be explained by biological mechanisms that involve epigenetic changes of gene expression. This book introduces a multidisciplinary computational approach to model, formalise and analyse the interplay of environment and epigenetics in the development of mental disorders. It is shown how five levels of control can be distinguished in a biologically motivate...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advances in Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2023, held in Budapest, Hungary, during September 27–29, 2023.The 59 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 218 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making, Deep Learning Techniques, Natural Language Processing, Data Minning and ...

This two-volume set CCIS 2747-2748 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 12–15, 2025.The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Collective Intelligence and Collective Decision-Making; Cooperative Strategies for De...

This two-volume set CCIS 2165-2166 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2024, held in Leipzig, Germany, during September 9–11, 2024.The 67 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 234 submissions.The main track, covering the methodology and applications of CCI, included: collective decision-making, data fusion, deep learning techniques, natural language pr...

This book introduces a generic approach to model the use and adaptation of mental models, including the control over this. In their mental processes, humans often make use of internal mental models as a kind of blueprints for processes that can take place in the world or in other persons. By internal mental simulation of such a mental model in their brain, they can predict and be prepared for what can happen in the future. Usually, mental models are adaptive: they can be learned, refined, ...