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Category Archives: Fractals
Models and Concepts for Socio-Technical Complex Systems – Fractal Social Organizations
We introduce fractal social organizations—a novel class of socio-technical complex systems characterized by a distributed, bio-inspired, hierarchical architecture. Based on a same building block that is recursively applied at different layers, said systems provide a homogeneous way to model collective … Continue reading
Political Self-Organization and Fractal Patterns
The objective of this work is to better analyze and understand social self-organization in the context of social media and political activism. More specifically, we center our analysis in the presence of fractal scaling in the form of 1/f noise … Continue reading
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How Children perceive Fractals – Hierarchical self-similarity and Cognitive development
The ability to understand and generate hierarchical structures is a crucial component of human cognition, available in language, music, mathematics and problem solving. Recursion is a particularly useful mechanism for generating complex hierarchies by means of self-embedding rules. In the … Continue reading
What are Fractal Systems?
Within science, we introduce ‘fractality’ as a watchword for a new way of thinking about the collective behaviour of many basic but interacting units, be they atoms, molecules, neurons, or bits within a computer. To be more precise, our definition … Continue reading
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In the Mind of the Fractal King: On Life and Fractals
Our namesake, the nautilus, is not just a cultural and mythical object; it has also some rich (and not imagined) math to it. That’s because it is one of nature’s fractals. These are objects whose shape at a given length … Continue reading
Dynamic Fractal Organizations for Promoting Knowledge-based Transformation
How can a company become sustainably innovative? We propose that the company needs to have organizational forms that achieve a dynamic synthesis of knowledge exploration and exploitation. In this paper, we present the ‘‘dynamic fractal organization’’ as a new organizational … Continue reading
Fractal Organizations vs. Top-Down Hierarchies
Part 1 – Janna Raye’s discovery of a naturally emergent structure in vibrant and creative start-up and entrepreneurial environments that enables continuous improvement and expansive flow of resources. Part 2 – shows how modern communication tools enable Fractal Organizations to … Continue reading
Fractal Organization Theory
Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command-and-control systems of authority that create harmful stress and internal competition for advancement within organizations. The pervading perception is of “limited room at the top,” where positions of authority become scarce resources. Members withhold … Continue reading
On the Impact of Fractal Organization on the Performance of Socio-technical Systems
Fractal organizations are a class of bio-inspired distributed hierarchical architectures in which control and feedback information are allowed to flow independently of the position the participating nodes have in the system hierarchy. In this paper we discuss the adoption of … Continue reading
Service-oriented Communities: Visions and Contributions towards Social Organizations
With the increase of the populations, resources are becoming scarcer, and a smarter way to make use of them becomes a vital necessity of our societies. On the other hand, resource management is traditionally carried out through well established organizations, … Continue reading
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