The increasing complexity of our world demands new perspectives on the role of technology
in human decision making. We need new technology to cope with the increasingly
complex and information-rich nature of our modern society.

This is particularly true for critical environments such as crisis management and traffic management, where
humans need to engage in close collaborations with artificial systems to observe and
understand the situation and respond in a sensible way. The book Interactive Collaborative
Information Systems addresses techniques that support humans in situations
in which complex information handling is required and that facilitate distributed decision-
making. The theme integrates research from information technology, artificial
intelligence and human sciences to obtain a multidisciplinary foundation from which
innovative actor-agent systems for critical environments can emerge. It emphasizes the
importance of building actor-agent communities: close collaborations between human
and artificial actors that highlight their complementary capabilities in situations where
task distribution is flexible and adaptive. This book focuses on the employment of innovative
agent technology, advanced machine learning techniques, and... more on http://springer.com/978-3-642-11687-2