Advances towards a general-purpose societal-scale human-collective problem-solving engine

Human collective intelligence has proved itself as an important factor in a society´s ability to accomplish large-scale behavioral feats. As societies have grown in population-size, individuals have seen a decrease in their ability to actively participate in the problem-solving processes of the group. Representative decision-making structures have been used as a modern solution to society´s inadequate information-processing infrastructure. With computer and network technologies being further embedded, within the fabric of society, the implementation of a general-purpose societal-scale human-collective problem-solving engine is envisioned as a means of furthering the collective-intelligence potential of society. This paper provides both a novel framework for creating collective intelligence systems and a method for implementing a representative and expertise system based on social-network theory