[p2p-research] Self-organizing principles

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Bas,

I'm copying Gus, and  his initiative on Studies in Emergent Order, who may
point you to some extra resources

Mark Elliot studies stygmergy, i.e. communicative swarming,

I'm sure paul's panarchy is also related,

Michel

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> Facebook: Ryan_Lanham
>
>
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> p2presearch mailing list
>> p2presearch at listcultures.org
>> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> p2presearch mailing list
> p2presearch at listcultures.org
> http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org
>
>


-- 
Working at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University -
http://www.dpu.ac.th/dpuic/info/Research.html -
http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

Volunteering at the P2P Foundation:
http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net -
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com

Monitor updates at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens

The work of the P2P Foundation is supported by SHIFTN,
http://www.shiftn.com/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/attachments/20090520/15b41216/attachment-0001.html>