...Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi Purpose Based on the reception of the principle of self-organization, the core of Heinz von Foerster's operational theories, I hypothesize how Heinz von Foerster's theory can be an orientation model for the epistemological problem of complexity. I have chosen this study...

... communication. Autonomy Autopoiesis Self-organization Systems theory Technology © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this study is to answer the following question: can technology be considered an “autopoietic” social...

... of the brain. A second article, contemporary to Walter's paper, was published by John D. McEwan (1963) , the author noticed the relevance of self-organization for anarchism and cybernetics. He went even further as to quote Kropotkin as reference in his accounts and found interesting the concepts of “control...

...-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Public policy Qualitative research Complex adaptive systems Self-organization Adaptive governance...

... on systems thinking – specifically, on the concepts of synergy, emergence, recursion and self-organization. Second, an approach is developed to help determine whether the efforts being made towards the SDGs can be expected to be effective (i.e., whether the world can hope to soon be a system that self...

... can be contacted at: Lepsky@tm-net.ru © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Cybernetics Methodology Philosophy Epistemology Social systems Self-organization Sociocybernetics Second-order cybernetics Here is a scheme...

... of the collectivity as if an internal organizer were regulating the micro dynamics of agents, producing self-organization, synchronization, path dependence and chaos. Findings In addition to illustrating the CSysT, this study also proposes a new and powerful tool to simulate combinatory systems: the “combinatory...

... these theories were originally setup for cognitive processes, this paper suggests extensions to model a complex adaptive system framework for management and marketing studies. Open systems Cybernetics Self-organization Viable systems Systems theory Cultural agency theory Human activity systems...

...@btinternet.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Decision making Honey bee Information network Self-organization Collective intelligence The scouts supporting the better quality sites fly more trips and their waggle dance reports contain more dance circuits, thereby advertising...

...Krzysztof Kasianiuk Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present two system identification models – “white box” and “black box” – as useful tools that help understand self-organization processes within and outside the organizations facilitated by leaders. Every leader is presented...

...Dr Raul Espejo; Zoraida Mendiwelso-bendek Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the contribution of community-based research to the self-organisation of Civil Society and in particular to community engagement, policy processes and social change. Design/methodology/approach...

... Artificial intelligence Knowledge management Self-organization Social networks Complexity The production of knowledge in contemporary societies has experienced a phase of transition away from individualism toward collectivism. The science of past centuries, for instance, was characterized...

...Dr Raul Espejo; Raul Espejo Purpose – Illustrate supported by Beer’s Viable System Model and four vignettes the relevance of self-organisation, recursive structures, self-reference and reflexivity in policy processes. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach...

... is then used to analyse capabilities for governance for sustainability at three real situations where the mentioned Methodology inspired bottom up processes of self-organisation. It analyses the transformations decided from each organisation, in terms of capabilities for sustainable governance, using...

.../methodology/approach – Relating autopoiesis with Ashby’s law of requisite variety, self-organization is put forward as a way in which systems can be designed to match the variety of their environment. Findings – Guided self-organization has been shown to produce systems which can adapt...

...Zhiyun Zou; Peng Liu; Saisai Zhou; Yao Xiao; Xuecai Xu; Jianzhi Gao Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolving mechanism of urban roadway network. With the consideration of self-organization effect and planning effect during evolution, the authors try to demonstrate the impact...

... Understanding how self‐organization obtains adaptive solutions for complex problems can contribute to building more efficient systems. To implement the green‐wave method in our CA model, we consider a fixed period T for all traffic lights, and an individual offset ω_j...

... to the self‐organization of the system which can modify its internal structure, R_r is quite meaningful since then the entropy of the latter will never be more than H_m. In the analysis of dynamical systems, the basic task is to extend these definitions...