[p2p-research] Self-organizing principles

[Ryan Lanham]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis  is a starting point.  There are
huge literatures in self-organizing systems in computer science and AI.
There are discussions of self-organization in physics and in communications
theory.

I think one of the most accessible and best recent studies is called
Wikinomics.

You might want to look into the literature on social network analysis and
join the mailing lists at INSNA which have covered these topics from
sociological and mathematical perspectives for several years.

In biology, you my find your topic goes toward swarm science.  Swarms are
also heavily discussed in crowdsourcing literatures.  All of these
approaches overlap collaboration and self-organization.  There are even
literatures in constitutional and legal theory.

Ryan Lanham
rlanham1963 at gmail.com
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On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Bas Reus <bas.reus at gmail.com> wrote:

> All, this is a repost of a topic started at http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/.
> Please advice.
>
> P2P friends, here a topic on self-organizing. Currently I am trying to
> define this theme by making a list of themes that overlap self-organizing
> somewhere, and help to define the theme seen from an online collaborative
> point of view.
>
> Self-organizing to me can be a system that is highly adaptive, flexible and
> 'bottom-up'. When seen from an online collaborative point of view I tend to
> think of empowerment and rules of engagement.
>
> Of course Wikipedia can be seen as a self-organizing system where online
> collaboration is taking place. This is a great example that we all know. But
> what can be learnt from that? How did it become what it is today? Is it
> because of self-organizing, or where there some rules agreed upon that made
> it happen?
>
> I'd like to be inspired by your thougths on this subject.
> Thanks, Bas.
>
> Original topic:
> http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/selforganizing-principles
> I already got some inspiration from Michel, on some available research and
> interests.
>
>
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