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Category Archives: Stigmergy
Stigmergic Epistemology, Stigmergic Cognition
To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Epistemology, Extended mind, Knowledge, Stigmergy
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Coordination of Cooperative Work through Artifacts and the Practice of Stigmergy
Researchers in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) have increasingly come to realize that artifacts play an important role in the coordination of cooperative work. This master thesis is an attempt to make an inquiry into the nature … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Artifacts, Cooperation, Stigmergy
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Stigmergic Self-organization and the Improvisation of Ushahidi
There has been considerable investigation into the nature, effectiveness and performance of virtual organizations, virtual teams and virtual collaboration based on the affordances of information and communications technology (ICT). The recent emergence of location-based social network technologies has resulted in … Continue reading
Posted in Heylighen, Self-organization, Stigmergy, Virtual communities
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Why is Open Access Development so Successful? – Stigmergic organization and the economics of information
The explosive development of “free” or “open source” information goods contravenes the conventional wisdom that markets and commercial organizations are necessary to efficiently supply products. This paper proposes a theoretical explanation for this phenomenon, using concepts from economics and theories … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Heylighen, Open access, Self-organization, Stigmergy
Tagged collaboration, heylighen, open access, self-organization, stigmergy
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Stigmergy in Human Practice: Coordination in Complex Work
Stigmergy is a concept of coordination that may be employed to analyse human practice in complex work settings such as the building process. However, the concept of stigmergy was not originally developed in order to describe human practice, rather it … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Coordination, Stigmergy, Work
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Stigmergic dimensions of Online Creative Interaction
This paper examines the stigmergic dimensions of online interactive creativity through the lens of Picbreeder. Picbreeder is a web-based system for collaborative interactive evolution of images. The Picbreeder applet starts by randomly generating several images, which are then mated and … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Creativity, Online, Stigmergy
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Getting Things Done – The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity
Allen (2001) proposed the “Getting Things Done” (GTD) method for personal productivity enhancement, and reduction of the stress caused by information overload. This paper argues that recent insights in psychology and cognitive science support and extend GTD’s recommendations. We first … Continue reading
Posted in Personal productivity, Stigmergy, Task management
Tagged personal productivity, stigmergy, task management
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Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution – from Ephemeralization and Stigmergy to the Global Brain
Evolution is presented as a trial-and-error process that produces a progressive accumulation of knowledge. At the level of technology, this leads to ephemeralization, i.e. ever increasing productivity, or decreasing of the friction that normally dissipates resources. As a result, flows … Continue reading
Posted in Collective intelligence, Complexity, Evolution, Global brain, Heylighen, Stigmergy
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Biomimetics in Modern Organizations
Biomimetics, the art and science of imitating nature and life for technological solutions is discussed from a modern organization theory perspective. The main hypothesis of this article is that there are common laws in nature that are applicable to living, … Continue reading
