On Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social, Business and Economic Domains

Salima Hassas; Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo; Anthony Karageorgos; Cristiano Castelfranchi

On Self-Organising Mechanisms from Social, Business and Economic Domains

Salima Hassas, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Anthony Karageorgos, Cristiano Castelfranchi

Informatica 30(1), pages 63–71

January 2006

This paper discusses examples of socially inspired self-organisation approaches and their use to build socially-aware, self-organising computing systems. The paper presents different mechanisms originating from existing social systems, such as stigmergy from social insects behaviours, epidemic spreading, gossiping, trust and reputation inspired by human social behaviours, as well as other approaches from social science related to business and economics. It also elaborates on issues related to social network dynamics, social network patterns, social networks analysis, and their relation to the process of self-organisation. The applicability of socially inspired approaches in the engineering of self-organising computing systems is then illustrated with applications concerning WWW, computer networks and business communities.

keywords self-organisation, networks, social functions, business networks, social learning

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The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research – Part 2 (editorial/introduction/preface, 2006) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

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