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Background
This is the fifth workshop on the subject of social intelligence design. The papers accepted for this workshop will be collected and published on the SID2006 Web site. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special Journal issue.
The first workshop SID2001, held in Matsue, Japan in 2001, in conjunction with the annual JSAI Conference. SID2001 established a forum for key themes in this area, such as, how new technologies mediate human communication and collaboration across geographical and cultural divides. The workshop papers can be viewed on the website. Selected papers from the first SID workshop of the Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence were published in Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence LNAI 2253: "New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence", edited by Terano, Nishida, Namatame, Tsumoto, Ohsawa, and Washio, Springer Verlag, December 2001. [Web] http://www.ii.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sid/sid2001/
The second workshop was held at the Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom in 2003. Selected papers were published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal 2004, edited by Renate Fruchter, Duska Rosenberg, and Toyoaki Nishida. [Web] http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Management/News-and-Events/conferences/SID2003
The third workshop was organized under the auspices of the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) of the University of Twente and Human Media Interaction group of the CTIT. Selected papers are being published in a special issue of the AI & Society Journal 2005. [Web] http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/Conferences/sid04/sid04.html
The fourth workshop was held at Stanford University, CA, USA. [Web] http://pbl.stanford.edu/News/SID2005.html