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Giorgio Bertini
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Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism
The concept of stigmergy has been used to analyze self-organizing activities in an ever-widening range of domains, including social insects, robotics, web communities and human society. Yet, it is still poorly understood and as such its full power remains underappreciated. … Continue reading
Designing Evolvable and Self-Organizing Systems
As technology continues to integrate with business systems the complexity of internal systemic interactions as well as those with the environment become harder to model with the extant techniques. This can largely be attributed to “emergent” qualities that become more … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Evolution, Self-organization, Self-organizing systems
Tagged design, evolution, self-organization, self-organizing systems
A Dynamic Systems View of Economic and Political Theory
Since the Early Modern period, political theory has assumed methodological individualism, similar to the atomistic mechanism that prevailed in physics. This leads to a combinatorial, linear political theory centred on individual actions serving individual interests. Similar trends developed in economics … Continue reading
Self-Organization, Emergence and Multi-Agent Systems
We begin by describing the importance of emergence and the need, in certain situations, to move away from a reduction mindset to a more holist approach. We define the term emergence in context of self-organizing systems, autopoiesis and chaotic systems. … Continue reading
Posted in Agents, Autopoiesis, Chaos, Complexity theory, Emergence, Self-organizing systems
Tagged agents, autopoiesis, chaos, complexity theory, emergence, self-organizing systems
Pioneering Ants Challenge Self-Organization Assumptions
Read Some worker ants are more equal than others. As with other social insects, it was once thought that workers were essentially equivalent in ant colony hierarchies. But it appears that a few well-informed individuals shape group decisions by leading … Continue reading
