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Socionics

Scalability of Complex Social Systems

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Klaus Fischer

    1. DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

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  2. Michael Florian

    1. Department of Technology Assessment, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

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  3. Thomas Malsch

    1. Department of Technology Assessment, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3413)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction

    1. Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction

      • Klaus Fischer, Michael Florian
      Pages 1-14

  4. Chapter II Concepts for Organization and Self-Organization

    1. Building Scalable Virtual Communities — Infrastructure Requirements and Computational Costs

      • Omer F. Rana, Asif Akram, Steven J. Lynden
      Pages 68-83

    2. Organization: The Central Concept for Qualitative and Quantitative Scalability

      • Michael Schillo, Daniela Spresny
      Pages 84-103

    3. Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in MAS Design

      • Martin Meister, Diemo Urbig, Kay Schröter, Renate Gerstl
      Pages 104-131

    4. Scalability, Scaling Processes, and the Management of Complexity. A System Theoretical Approach

      • Kai Paetow, Marco Schmitt, Thomas Malsch
      Pages 132-154

  5. Chapter III The Emergence of Social Structures

    1. On the Organisation of Agent Experience: Scaling Up Social Cognition

      • Michael Rovatsos, Kai Paetow
      Pages 155-175

    2. Trust and the Economy of Symbolic Goods: A Contribution to the Scalability of Open Multi-agent Systems

      • Bettina Fley, Michael Florian
      Pages 176-198

    3. Coordination in Scaling Actor Constellations

      • Christian W. G. Lasarczyk, Thomas Kron
      Pages 199-217

    4. From Conditional Commitments to Generalized Media: On Means of Coordination Between Self-Governed Entities

      • Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
      Pages 218-241

  6. Chapter IV From an Agent-Centred to a Communication-Centred Perspective

    1. Scalability and the Social Dynamics of Communication. On Comparing Social Network Analysis and Communication-Oriented Modelling as Models of Communication Networks

      • Steffen Albrecht, Maren Lübcke, Thomas Malsch, Christoph Schlieder
      Pages 242-262

    2. Multiagent Systems Without Agents — Mirror-Holons for the Compilation and Enactment of Communication Structures

      • Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß
      Pages 263-288

    3. Communication Systems: A Unified Model of Socially Intelligent Systems

      • Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Wilfried Brauer, Gerhard Weiß
      Pages 289-313

  7. Back Matter

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  • DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Klaus Fischer

  • Department of Technology Assessment, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Michael Florian, Thomas Malsch

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