Collective intelligence in knowledge management

This paper traces the history of research for Collective Intelligence, and describes new forms of Collective Intelligence on the Internet so far especially from the view of Web2.0, to figure out what Collective Intelligence is, then makes analyses on those forms to make clear the mechanism of Collective Intelligence on the Internet. As one Complex Adaptive System, Collective Intelligence is the emergence of group behaviors, and is stored on the platform of the Internet. So, it is one new kind of the Knowledge Management on the Internet. We finally think about future work for this field to promote the emergence of Collective Intelligence on the Internet.