Self-star Systems (was: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle [was Re: Schema.org in RDF ...] )

Henry Story asked...

> Perhaps a more scientific way to express this is within the language of self-organising systems. There is a lot of research there which is relevant to us.
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_organising_systems
>
> I am a bit new to this area. Any books I must read?

I responded to Henry personally with the following, which Henry
suggested I send to the list...

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Caution: The study of self-organizing systems will keep you up all
night with its coolness! ;)

You asked for some book recommendations; these are a few on my shelf.
I think the only "required" reading is "Out of Control," which will
blow you mind, and the rest will just complement that ;)

1. Kevin Kelly, "Out of Control"
2. Mikhail Prokopenko (ed), "Advances in Applied Self-Organizing Systems"
3. Ozalp Babaoglu, et.al., "Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems"
4. Yaneer Bar-Yam, "Dynamics of Complex Systems"
5. Martin A. Nowak, "Evolutionary Dynamics: Exploring the Equations of Life"

An example chapter from Nowak: "Evolutionary Graph Theory" ;)

BTW, if you haven't already, install NetLego
<http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/> immediately. Serious work going
on there, but very accessible!

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Received on Sunday, 19 June 2011 22:53:15 UTC