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Introduction: The SOCIONICAL FP7 Project and an Outline of the Volume

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SOCIONICAL is a socio-technical FP7 research project funded by the European Union with 14 Partners in ten different countries (www.socionical.eu); this volume captures some of the work that was done by the Consortium of Partners over the 4 year period, February 2009 to January 2013.

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The SOCIONICAL project and this volume were made possible by funding from the European Commission’s Future Emerging Technologies Unit, under Framework 7. The award was for 4 years between February 2009 and January 2013. We would like to thank the Commission, our Reviewers and our Project Officer, for their continuing support.

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Mitleton-Kelly, E., Lukowicz, P. (2013). Introduction: The SOCIONICAL FP7 Project and an Outline of the Volume. In: Mitleton-Kelly, E. (eds) Co-evolution of Intelligent Socio-technical Systems. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36614-7_1

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