1. A Survey of Collectives. - 2. Theory of Collective Intelligence. - 3. On Learnable Mechanism Design. - 4. Asynchronous Learning in Decentralized Environments: A Game-Theoretic Approach. - 5. Competition between Adaptive Agents: Learning and Collective Efficiency. - 6. Managing Catastrophic Changes in a Collective. - 7. Effects of Interagent Communications on the Collective. - 8. Man and Superman: Human Limitations Innovation and Emergence in Resource Competition. - 9. Design Principles for the Distributed Control of Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots. - 10. Two Paradigms for the Design of Artificial Collectives. - 11. Efficiency and Equity in Collective Systems of Interacting Heterogeneous Agents. - 12. Selection in Coevolutionary Algorithms and the Inverse Problem. - 13. Dynamics of Large Autonomous Computational Systems. - About the Editors. Language: English