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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
How Culture makes Us Human: on the Formation of Human Societes
What separates modern humans from our primate cousins—are we a mere blink in the march of evolution, or does human culture represent the definitive evolutionary turn? Dwight Read explores the dilemma in this engaging, thought-provoking book, taking readers through an … Continue reading
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Structural Patterns of the Occupy Movement on Facebook
In this paper we explore the case of online political movements, that coordinate and interact through social media even more often with the advent of the World Wide Web. Our focus is to characterize information consumption patterns by identifying different … Continue reading
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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
La Forza Costituente della Moltitudine
Queste riflessioni trovano lo spunto nell’imminente #strikemeeting, una tre giorni in cui “si alterneranno assemblee, workshop e discussioni collettive” il cui obiettivo è di “ricreare le condizioni per una mobilitazione efficace contro il Jobs Act e le politiche sul lavoro … Continue reading
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La Social Organization è una Sfida Culturale
I social media si stanno gradualmente affermando anche in ambito aziendale, dove vengono utilizzati al fine di migliorare produttività e collaborazione interna. In questo scenario il web 2.0 è da intendersi come una componente abilitante, che mette a disposizione piattaforme … Continue reading
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The social business
Almost all leadership concepts start with the assumption that a key role for the leader is to set a direction. This usually means designing and communicating a vision and a set of goals. Traditionally, the roles of vision and goals … Continue reading
The Stigmergic Revolution
It was long believed that the queen played a central role in the complex social order of an ant colony, through the exercise of direct command and control over her subjects. Not so. Biologist Pierre-Paul Grasse coined the term “stigmergy” … Continue reading
Manifesto UniNomade Global: Rivoluzione 2.0
Viviamo in una situazione rivoluzionaria. La crisi diventa permanente, la governance imperiale è fallita, l’asse atlantico mostra la corda. Affermare ciò non significa concedere nulla a uno sciocco meccanicismo o a un ingenuo determinismo. Sono le lotte a dimostrare che … Continue reading
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