The following lists recent ECCO working papers. These are as yet unpublished
texts that are likely to still undergo elaboration, or early versions of
publications. Please send your comments, questions and suggestions to the
respective authors, so that they can take them into account when preparing
their paper for publication.
Elsewhere you can find a list of Selected ECCO publications:
Gershenson C. Design and
Control of Self-Organizing Systems (ECCO working paper 2007-01, also PhD
thesis, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Heylighen F. Accelerating
Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the
global brain (ECCO working paper 2007-02)
To appear in: "Globalization as an Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global
Change", edited by George Modelski, Tessaleno Devezas, and William
Thompson, London: Routledge
Vidal C. A
Minimal Philosophical Agenda. Worldview Construction as a Philosophical Method
(ECCO working paper 2007-03)
Heylighen F. Five
Questions on Complexity (ECCO working paper 2007-04)
To appear in: C. Gershenson (ed.): Complexity: 5 questions, Automatic Press /
VIP, 2007 or 2008.
Gershenson C. The
World as Evolving Information (ECCO working paper 2007-05)
Heylighen F. The
anticipation-control theory of mind: an evolutionary-cybernetic perspective on
cognition, consciousness and the brain (ECCO working paper 2006-01)
Heylighen F. A Nodal
Growth Algorithm for Concept Discovery (ECCO working paper 2006-02)
Gershenson C. Towards
Self-organizing Bureaucracies (ECCO working paper 2006-03)
Heylighen F., Cilliers P., and Gershenson C. Complexity and Philosophy
(ECCO working paper 2006-04)
Heylighen F. Characteristics
and Problems of the Gifted: neural propagation depth and flow motivation as a
model of intelligence and creativity (ECCO working paper 2006-05)
Heylighen F. Why
is Open Source Development so Successful? Stigmergic organization and the
economics of information (ECCO working paper 2006-06)
to appear in: B. Lutterbeck, M. Baerwolff & R. A. Gehring (eds.), Open
Source Jahrbuch 2007, Lehmanns Media, 2007
Rodriguez, M.A., Steinbock, D.J., The Anatomy of a
Large Scale Collective Decision Making System, (ECCO working paper 2006-07)
also Los Alamos National Laboratory Technical Report, LA-UR-06-2139)
Rodriguez, M.A., Social
Decision Making with Multi-Relational Networks and Grammar-Based Particle
Swarms, (ECCO working paper 2006-08)
to be published in: 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science
(HICSS), Track: Collaboration Technology - Social Cognition and Knowledge
Creation Using Collaborative Technology, Waikoloa, Hawaii, IEEE Computer Society
Rodriguez, M.A., Steinbock, D.J., Watkins, J.H., Gershenson, C., Bollen, J.,
Grey, V., deGraf, B., Smartocracy:
Social Networks for Collective Decision Making, (ECCO working paper
2006-09)
to be published in: 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science
(HICSS), Track: Electronic Government - E-Democracy, Waikoloa, Hawaii, IEEE
Computer Society.
Stewart, J. The
Future Evolution of Consciousness (ECCO working paper 2006-10)
Coenen T. Knowledge
sharing over social networking systems (ECCO working paper 2006-11)
(also: PhD thesis, defended Faculty ES, VUB, 2006)
Research Proposals
Chielens, K. &
Heylighen, F. Operalization
of Meme Selection Criteria. (ECCO working paper 2005-01, to be published in
the Proceedings of the AISB Congress, 2005).
Gershenson C. Self-organizing
Traffic Lights. (ECCO working paper 2005-02)
Van Overwalle, F., Heylighen F. & Heath M. Trust in Communication
between Individuals: A Connectionist Approach. (ECCO working paper 2005-03)
Rodriguez, M.A., The
Convergence of Digital Library Technology and the Peer-Review Process.
(ECCO working paper 2005-04)
Gershenson C. A General
Methodology for Designing Self-Organizing Systems. (ECCO working paper
2005-05)
Rodriguez, M.A.: The Hyper-Cortex
of Human Collective-Intelligence Systems (ECCO Working Paper 2005-06)
Van Overwalle, F., Heylighen F. & Heath M. : Talking Nets: A
Multi-Agent Connectionist Approach to Communication and Trust between
Individuals (ECCO Working Paper 2005-07)
Gershenson, C., S. A. Kauffman, and I. Shmulevich. The Role of Redundancy in the
Robustness of Random Boolean Networks. (ECCO working paper 2005-08)
Kiemen M. A triple loop model
of agent cognition (ECCO working paper 2005-09)
De Cruz H. Mathematical
Symbols as Epistemic Actions (draft paper, first presented at ECCO seminar)
Research Proposals
Bollen D., A dynamical
systems analysis of an embodied and situated model of cognition, M. Sc.
Thesis university of Maastrich(nl), 2004.
Heylighen F. (2004): "Mediator
Evolution: a general scenario for the origin of dynamical hierarchies",
(ECCO working paper, 2004-01)
Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2004): "From Quantity to
Quality of Life: r-K selection and human development" (ECCO working
paper, 2004-02)
Loengarov A. Total Trophic Impacts: A simulation approach to measuring
total trophic impacts in an ecological community (EASy MSc Dissertation,
2004)
Loengarov A. The
evolution of kin-friendly behaviour in the absence of kin recognition: a basic
simulation (EASy A-life paper, 2004)
Loengarov A. Some
first steps in search of actors in simple, dynamic, transformational networks (EASy
Adaptive Systems paper, 2004)
Loengarov A. Inferring
Intentions from Motion Cues (EASy Visual Perception and Cognition term paper)
Rodriguez, M.A., Advances
Towards a Societal-Scale Decision Support System, University of California,
Santa Cruz Masters Thesis, 2004.
Bollen D., Representation in
situated models of cognition, paper university of Maastrich(nl), 2003
Chielens, K. (2003) The
Viral Aspects of Language: A Quantitative Research of Memetic Selection
Criteria. Unpublished Masters Thesis VUB.
De Jaegher L. Management of
Uncertainty and the Balance between Precaution and Innovation: Towards new
strategies for a sustainable risk management., Bioscience Law Review,
Lawtext Publishing
Loengarov A. Socioculture in a Multilevel View of Evolution
(Sociology MA thesis, 2003 - English summary)
Steinbock, D., Kaplan, C., Rodriguez M.A., Diaz, J., Der, N.,
Garcia, S., Collective Intelligence Quantified for Computer-Mediated Group
Problem Solving>http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram/papers/ucsc-crl-02-28.pdf, UCSC-CRL-02-28,
July 2002.
Heylighen F. (2002): "Complexity and
Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency leads to decreasing
control" (ECCO working paper)
Heylighen F. (2002): "Tackling Complexity
and Information Overload: from intelligence amplification and attention economy
to the global brain" (ECCO working paper)