Important Dates
- March 15, 2024: Extended Submission Deadline (all papers, all formats, midnight AoE)
- Submit on EasyChair
- Early May: Notification of Acceptance
- May 25: Final camera-ready papers due
- June 27-28, 2024: CI 2024 @ Northeastern University, Boston
Topics and Theme
The ACM Collective Intelligence (CI) Conference has a transdisciplinary focus devoted to advancing the theoretical and empirical understanding of collective performance in diverse systems, whether biological, technological, or a combination. We are interested in research on a broad range of systems that vary in scale and scope and focus on implications for a diverse range of social, ecological, and economic outcomes.
Researchers who participate in the CI conference represent a cross-section of social and computer science, as well as the natural sciences, arts, and humanities. All types of contributions—empirical, conceptual, theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative—are welcome, including computational models. We seek perspectives that emphasize traditional views of intelligence and alternative or related phenomena such as optimality, satisficing, robustness, adaptability, and wisdom.
Research topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Researchers who participate in the CI conference represent a cross-section of social and computer science, as well as the natural sciences, arts, and humanities. All types of contributions—empirical, conceptual, theoretical, quantitative, and qualitative—are welcome, including computational models. We seek perspectives that emphasize traditional views of intelligence and alternative or related phenomena such as optimality, satisficing, robustness, adaptability, and wisdom.
Research topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Collective human and machine intelligence, such as human-autonomy teaming or augmented intelligence
- The design and use of open source online communities, crowdsourcing, innovation contests or citizen science to address difficult problems such as climate change, other development goals, or public policy debates
- Consideration of ethics and values, including societal norms, in the design or application of technology in human systems (i.e., “humanics”)
- Mechanisms involved in collective decision-making or collaboration that enhance various processes or qualities of outcomes such as efficiency, utility, creativity, or inclusivity
Submission Formats and Process
We offer two submission formats, each having equal chance of acceptance for presentation, to accommodate the different norms and requirements across the diverse fields represented in the Collective Intelligence community. Both formats have an equal chance of acceptance and are equally likely to be invited for inclusion as an oral presentation or as a poster. Submissions will be selected for inclusion based on their quality and the fit of their topic with the interests of the CI ‘24 audience. The key differences between formats relate to the amount of feedback authors will receive and opportunities for inclusion in archival proceedings and/or consideration for journal publication. The format selected at the time of initial submission cannot be changed at a later point in the process.
We are excited to also offer the opportunity to submit full papers to a special issue at the ACM Collective Intelligence journal on [AI for Collective Intelligence] (Check out our Special Issue).
- Full papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee (PC). Accepted full papers will be published in the archival 2024 ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Paper Proceedings which will be available via the ACM Digital Library. These papers will be assigned individual digital object identifiers as citable publications.
- Extended abstracts will be reviewed by one member of the PC or the PC chair. Those that are accepted will be made available to conference participants on the CI’24 website. These abstracts will not be archived in the ACM library nor assigned individual DOIs for tracking future citations. This option may be attractive to social science researchers who wish to submit their work to a journal for archival publication.
- Non-Archival Extended Abstract
- Archival Full Paper
- CI Journal Fast Track Full Paper
- Workshop Proposal
- Demonstration
We are excited to also offer the opportunity to submit full papers to a special issue at the ACM Collective Intelligence journal on [AI for Collective Intelligence] (Check out our Special Issue).
Format for Full Papers and Extended Abstracts
Extended abstracts can be up to 4 pages total (formatted according the template provided): 3 pages of text (including any tables or figures) plus 1 page for references. Full papers should not exceed 10,000 words; authors are encouraged to be concise, as paper length must be commensurate with the weight of the contribution. A new idea presented in a compact format is more likely to be accepted than the same idea in a long format, and shorter, more focused papers are encouraged.
All submissions should use the following templates [links updated 2024-03-09]: All submissions need to be converted to PDF at the time of submission.
All submissions should use the following templates [links updated 2024-03-09]: All submissions need to be converted to PDF at the time of submission.
Submission Policies
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.”
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”
Double-blind review: Authors must ensure that their submissions are anonymized to facilitate double-blind review. This means that any identifying information, including author names and institutions, should be removed before submission, and authors should avoid citing any unpublished material of their own.
Preprint Servers. We do not forbid authors to post preprints of their work online on sites such as SSRN or arXiv while it is under review nor do we require work to be taken down or embargoed at any point in our process. We do ask that authors avoid undermining the integrity of our double-blind review process by holding off on publicizing the research on social media or discussing it with the press until the review process is complete.
Conflicts of Interest (COI): To help us avoid COI in our review process, authors are asked to review the list of CI ‘24 Program Committee Members and identify any current or recent collaborators, advisor/advisees or colleagues at the same institution COI by selecting the “Declare Conflicts” link on the upper-right of your EasyChair submission page.
Double Submission Policy: Full paper submissions to the conference must represent original work meaning:
Attendance and Presentation. To be included in the proceedings and the conference program (both parallel track presentation and poster presentation), at least one unique presenter of each accepted submission must register to attend the conference by the camera-ready deadline.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.”
Double-blind review: Authors must ensure that their submissions are anonymized to facilitate double-blind review. This means that any identifying information, including author names and institutions, should be removed before submission, and authors should avoid citing any unpublished material of their own.
Preprint Servers. We do not forbid authors to post preprints of their work online on sites such as SSRN or arXiv while it is under review nor do we require work to be taken down or embargoed at any point in our process. We do ask that authors avoid undermining the integrity of our double-blind review process by holding off on publicizing the research on social media or discussing it with the press until the review process is complete.
Conflicts of Interest (COI): To help us avoid COI in our review process, authors are asked to review the list of CI ‘24 Program Committee Members and identify any current or recent collaborators, advisor/advisees or colleagues at the same institution COI by selecting the “Declare Conflicts” link on the upper-right of your EasyChair submission page.
Double Submission Policy: Full paper submissions to the conference must represent original work meaning:
- The paper has not been previously published nor is under simultaneous peer-review for any other peer-reviewed archival conference or journal;
- If the paper uses some data, measures, or material from previously-published work it should also contain significant new results and/or focus on a significantly different research question.
Attendance and Presentation. To be included in the proceedings and the conference program (both parallel track presentation and poster presentation), at least one unique presenter of each accepted submission must register to attend the conference by the camera-ready deadline.
Alternative Submission Formats
The following submission types should be similar in length to an extended abstract and should include speaker biographies which will be considered as part of the review process. Thus submitters should note that these alternative formats are not handled within our blind-review process.
Panels or Workshops
We welcome submissions in the form of a panel or workshop at CI’24. Panel and workshop proposals should follow the Extended Abstract format in terms of length but include (a) an overview of the topic to be discussed, including the motivation for its inclusion as a panel at the conference; and (b) speaker biographies, with a focus on their relevant expertise for the panel. Panel proposals will be reviewed by the PC with a focus on fit with CI ‘24 topics of interest and likelihood to elicit engaging discussion with the audience.
Demonstrations, Tools, Experiments, Installations
If you have an interesting prototype, system, exhibit or installation, we want to know about it! Sharing hands-on experiences of your work is often the best way to communicate what you have created. We encourage demonstrations that showcase this year’s most exciting human computation, collaborative human-AI, and collective intelligence prototypes and systems. The demonstration submission should be similar in length to an extended abstract and describe (a) the nature of the system, including the motivation for its development; (b) the expected form of interaction with the user and/or audience (diagrams are encouraged where helpful); and (c) a biography of the presenter.
Panels or Workshops
We welcome submissions in the form of a panel or workshop at CI’24. Panel and workshop proposals should follow the Extended Abstract format in terms of length but include (a) an overview of the topic to be discussed, including the motivation for its inclusion as a panel at the conference; and (b) speaker biographies, with a focus on their relevant expertise for the panel. Panel proposals will be reviewed by the PC with a focus on fit with CI ‘24 topics of interest and likelihood to elicit engaging discussion with the audience.
Demonstrations, Tools, Experiments, Installations
If you have an interesting prototype, system, exhibit or installation, we want to know about it! Sharing hands-on experiences of your work is often the best way to communicate what you have created. We encourage demonstrations that showcase this year’s most exciting human computation, collaborative human-AI, and collective intelligence prototypes and systems. The demonstration submission should be similar in length to an extended abstract and describe (a) the nature of the system, including the motivation for its development; (b) the expected form of interaction with the user and/or audience (diagrams are encouraged where helpful); and (c) a biography of the presenter.