This book contains 17 peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Sixth international COINs Conference, held in Rome, Italy, from 8 to 11 June 2016. The papers in this book cover a broad range of topics, starting with an analysis of different communities and societies through social network analysis (SNA). Classic SNA looks at the structure of networks; the papers in this book add analysis of the dynamics of network change over time, and an analysis of the content of the networks, for example, in e-mails, Tweets, or Wikipedia. Dynamic and contentbased SNA affords an X-ray into the inner workings of an organization, mapping the informal relationships that transcend organizational hierarchy. It gives an assessment of communication and knowledge flow, resulting in actionable data to optimize outcomes. The approach pursued in these papers puts a lens to the organization by mining e-mail archives and, as relevant, other electronic communications from online social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, and other online forums) to make existing communication patterns visible. A second group of papers looks at design patterns and pattern language for creativity and other business processes, such as design patterns for education, creating workshops or modeling collaboration in the kitchen. This book is divided in four parts taking the aforementioned wide range of research fields into account. The four parts correspond to the paper sessions held at the conference.