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This two-volume set (LNAI 9875 and LNAI 9876) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2016, held in Halkidiki, Greece, in September 2016.
The 108 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 277 submissions.
The aim of this conference is to provide an internationally respected forum for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration, semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.

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Multi-agent Systems.- Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web.- Natural Language and Text Processing.- Data Mining Methods and Applications.- Decision Support and Control Systems.- Innovations in Intelligent Systems.- Cooperative Strategies for Decision Making and Optimization.- Meta-Heuristics Techniques and Applications.- Web Systems and Human-Computer Interaction.

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