Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen, Centrum Leo Apostel
This chapter does not deal with specific tools and techniques for managing complex systems, but proposes some basic concepts that help us to think and speak about complexity. We review classical...
Carlos Gershenson, Centrum Leo Apostel
The goal of this paper is to contribute to eGovernment efforts, encouraging the use of self-organization as a method to improve the efficiency and adaptability of bureaucracies and similar social...
Comparing Different Cognitive Paradigms with a Virtual Laboratory (2008)
Carlos Gershenson, Centrum Leo Apostel
A public virtual laboratory is presented, where animats are controlled by mechanisms from different cognitive paradigms. A brief description of the characteristics of the laboratory and the uses it...
From Quantity to Quality of Life: r-K selection and human development (2008)
Francis Heylighen, Centrum Leo Apostel
ABSTRACT: Evolutionary fitness is defined as the number of an organism's offspring likely to survive, apparently privileging quantity, rather than quality, of life. However, models of population...
The World as Evolving Information (2007)
Carlos Gershenson, Centrum Leo Apostel
This paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studies encounter problems because it is...
A general methodology for designing self-organizing systems (2006)
Carlos Gershenson, Centrum Leo Apostel
This paper presents a conceptual framework for speaking about self-organizing systems. The aim is to provide a methodology useful for designing and controlling systems developed to solve complex...
Contextual Random Boolean Networks (2003)
Carlos Gershenson, Jan Broekaert, Diederik Aerts, Centrum Leo Apostel
We propose the use of Deterministic Generalized Asynchronous Random Boolean Networks [1] as models of contextual deterministic discrete dynamical systems. We show that changes in the context have...
When can we call a system self-organizing (2003)
Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen, Centrum Leo Apostel
Abstract. We do not attempt to provide yet another definition of selforganization, but explore the conditions under which we can model a system as self-organizing. These involve the dynamics of...