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Heylighen F., Bollen J & Riegler A. (ed.) (1999): The Evolution of Complexity (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht).
Heylighen F., Joslyn C. & Turchin V. (1995) (eds.): The Quantum of Evolution. Toward a theory of metasystem transitions, (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York) (special issue of "World Futures: the journal of general evolution, volume 45, numbers 1-4).
Heylighen F. (ed.) (1991): Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York), 70p.
*Heylighen F. (1990): Representation and Change. A Metarepresentational Framework for the Foundations of Physical and Cognitive Science, (Communication & Cognition, Gent), 200 p.
Heylighen F., Rosseel E. & Demeyere F. (eds.) (1990): Self-Steering and Cognition in Complex Systems. Toward a New Cybernetics, (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York), 440p.
Heylighen F. (2006): The anticipation-control theory of mind: an evolutionary-cybernetic perspective on cognition, consciousness and the brain (ECCO working paper 2006-01)
Heylighen F. (2006): A Nodal Growth Algorithm for Concept Discovery (ECCO working paper 2006-02)
*Heylighen F. (2005): "Conceptions of a Global Brain: an historical review", , Technological Forecasting and Social Change[in press ]
Heylighen F. (2005): "Complexity and Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency leads to decreasing control", Technological Forecasting and Social Change[submitted]
*Heylighen F. (2005): "Tackling Complexity and Information Overload: from intelligence amplification and attention economy to the global brain", Technological Forecasting and Social Change[submitted ]
*Heylighen F. (2005): "The Global Superorganism: an evolutionary-cybernetic model of the emerging network society", Journal of Collective Intelligence[submitted]--a detailed exposition of the superorganism/global brain view of society, and an examination of the underlying evolutionary mechanisms, with applications to the on-going and future developments in a globalizing world
Heylighen F. (2004): "Das Globale Gehirn als neue Utopia" (The Global Brain as a new Utopia), in: R. Maresch & F. Rötzer (eds.) Renaissance der Utopie (Suhrkamp, Frankfurt)
*Heylighen F. (2001): "Mining Associative Meanings from the Web: from word disambiguation to the global brain", in: Proceedings of the International Colloquium: Trends in Special Language & Language Technology, R. Temmerman & M. Lutjeharms (eds.) (Standaard Editions, Antwerpen), p. 15-44.--applications of associative networks, which learn associations through Hebbian-style rules either by measuring co-occurrence of words in text or patterns of usage, to problems of ambiguity and meaning in language.
*Heylighen F. (2001): "The Science of Self-organization and Adaptivity", in: L. D. Kiel, (ed.) Knowledge Management, Organizational Intelligence and Learning, and Complexity, in: The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems ((EOLSS), (Eolss Publishers, Oxford). [http://www.eolss.net] -- an extensive, non-technical review of the basic concepts and principles developed in theories of self-organization, such as order from noise, attractors, entropy, fitness landscapes, bifurcations, feedback, closure, etc.
*Heylighen F. (2001): "Bootstrapping knowledge representations: from entailment meshes via semantic nets to learning webs", Kybernetes 30 (5/6), p. 691-722. (PDF)
*Heylighen F. (2000): "Foundations and Methodology for an Evolutionary World View: a review of the Principia Cybernetica Project", Foundations of Science, 5, p. 457-490.-- a summary of PCP's philosophical assumptions, as discussed in more detail on its website, and of their implications for the practical development of the project.
Heylighen F. (2000): "Evolutionary Transitions: how do levels of complexity emerge?", Complexity 6 (1), p. 53-57-- A joint review of 5 books (by Pettersson, Maynard Smith & Szathmary, Coren, Stewart and Turchin) discussing the evolution of complexity levels.
Heylighen F. (1999): "The necessity of theoretical constructs: a refutation of Gatherer's plea for a behaviorist memetics", Journal of Memetics 3:1.
*Heylighen F. (1999): "The
Growth of Structural and Functional Complexity during Evolution", in:
F. Heylighen, J. Bollen & A. Riegler (eds.) The Evolution of Complexity
(Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht), p. 17-44.
(PDF)
*Heylighen F. (1999): "Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map", Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 5(3), 253-280.
Heylighen F. (1999): "Advantages and limitations of formal expression", Foundations of Science, 4:1, p. 25-56. a theoretical, philosophical discussion of the formality concept expounded in a more empirical paper, with emphasis on the intrinsic limitations of scientific modelling, such as the Gödel theorem and the Uncertainty principle.
*Heylighen F. (1998): "What makes a meme successful?", in: Proc. 16th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 423-418.
Heylighen F. (1998): "Editorial: the memetics community is coming of age", Journal of Memetics 2:2, p. 1-3.
Heylighen F. (1997): "Towards a Global Brain. Integrating Individuals into the World-Wide Electronic Network", published in German as: "Auf dem Weg zum 'Global Brain'. `Der Mensch im weltweiten electronischen Netz", in: Der Sinn der Sinne, Uta Brandes & Claudia Neumann (Eds.) (Steidl Verlag, Göttingen), p. 302-318.
*Heylighen F. (1997): "The Economy as a Distributed, Learning Control System", Communication & Cognition- AI 13, nos. 2-3, p. 207-224. (PDF)
*Heylighen F. (1997): "Objective, subjective and intersubjective selectors of knowledge",Evolution and Cognition 3:1, p. 63-67. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1997): "Evolution and Complexity: an introduction to the book", in: F. Heylighen (ed.) The Evolution of Complexity (Kluwer, Dordrecht).
Heylighen F. (1997): "Classic Publications on Complex, Evolving Systems: a citation-based survey, Complexity 2 (5), p. 31-36.
Heylighen F. (1996): "Evolution of Memes on the Network: from chain-letters to the global brain", in: Ars Electronica Festival 96. Memesis: the future of evolution, G. Stocker & C. Schöpf (eds.) (Springer, Vienna/New York), p. 48-57.
Heylighen F. (1996): "Application of the World-Wide Web for the Development and Publication of a Systems Encyclopedia", in: Proc. 14th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur) p. 256-260. --Shorter version of Development and Publication of Systems Knowledge on the Internet
*Heylighen F. (1995): "(Meta)systems
as Constraints on Variation: a classification and natural history of metasystem
transitions", World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution 45, p.
59-85. (
Heylighen F. (1994): "World-Wide Web: a distributed hypermedia paradigm for global networking", in: Proceedings of SHARE Europe, Spring 1994, "The Changing Role of IT in Business" (SHARE Europe, Geneva), p. 355-368.
*Heylighen F. (1994) "Fitness as Default: the evolutionary basis of cognitive complexity reduction", in: Cybernetics and Systems '94, R. Trappl (ed.), (World Science, Singapore), p.1595-1602. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1993): "Selection Criteria for the Evolution of Knowledge", in: Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 524-528. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1993): "On Internal Representation", Informatica, 17, No. 3, p. 294.
*Heylighen F. (1992): "Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: an evolutionary perspective", in: Cybernetics and Systems '92, R. Trappl (ed.), (World Science, Singapore), p. 3-10. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1992): "Non-Rational Cognitive Processes as Changes of Distinctions", in: New Perspectives on Cybernetics. Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism, G. Van de Vijver (ed.), (Synthese Library v. 220, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht), p. 77-94. --reprint of journal paper.
Heylighen F. (1992): "From Complementarity to Bootstrapping of Distinctions: A Reply to Löfgren's Comments on my Proposed 'Structural Language", International Journal of General Systems 21, no. 1, p. 99.
Heylighen F. (1992): "Distinction Dynamics: from mechanical to self-organizing evolution", in: Proc. of the Int. Workshop "Analysis and Control of Dynamical Systems", E. Gindev (ed.), (CLCS, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia).
*Heylighen F. (1992): "A Cognitive-Systemic Reconstruction of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization", Behavioral Science 37, p. 39-58. (PDF)
*Heylighen F. (1992) : "Selfish Memes and the Evolution of Cooperation", Journal of Ideas , Vol. 2, #4, pp 77-84.
*Heylighen F. (1992) : "Evolution, Selfishness and Cooperation", Journal of Ideas, Vol 2, # 4, pp 70-76.
*Heylighen F. (1991): Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between Associative and Formal Representations", International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 35, p. 491-5 (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1991): "Structuring Knowledge in a Network of Concepts", in : Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop, Heylighen F. (ed.) (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York), p. 52-58.
*Heylighen F. (1991): "Modelling Emergence", World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution 31 (Special Issue on Emergence, edited by G. Kampis), p. 89-104.
Heylighen F. (1991): "Evolutionary Foundations for Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics", in : Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop, Heylighen F. (ed.) (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York), p. 33-39.
Heylighen F. (1991): "Coping with Complexity. Concepts and principles for a support system", Systemica 8, part 1 (special issue on Mutual Uses of Cybernetics and Science, edited by Glanville R. & de Zeeuw G.), p. 39-55.
*Heylighen F. (1991): "Cognitive Levels of Evolution: pre-rational to meta-rational", in: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems - Self-organization, Evolution and Social Change, F. Geyer (ed.), (Intersystems, Salinas, California), p. 75-91. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1991): "An Evolutionary System about Evolutionary Systems: Introducing the Principia Cybernetica Project", in: Workbook of the 1st Principia Cybernetica Workshop, Heylighen F. (ed.) (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels-New York), p. 1-6.
Heylighen F. (1990): "Relational Closure: a mathematical concept for distinction-making and complexity analysis", in: Cybernetics and Systems '90, R. Trappl (ed.), (World Science, Singapore), p. 335-342. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1990): "Non-Rational Cognitive Processes as Changes of Distinctions", Communication & Cognition 23, No. 2-3, p. 165-181.
*Heylighen F. (1990): "Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics I", Cybernetics and Systems 21, p. 423-444. (PDF)
*Heylighen F. (1990): "Classical and Non-classical Representations in Physics II: Quantum mechanics", Cybernetics and Systems 21, p. 477-502. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1990): "Autonomy and Cognition as the Maintenance and Processing of Distinctions", in: Self-Steering and Cognition in Complex Systems, Heylighen F., Rosseel E. & Demeyere F. (ed.), (Gordon and Breach, New York), p. 89-106.
*Heylighen F. (1990): "A Structural Language for the Foundations of Physics", International Journal of General Systems 18, p. 93-112. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1990): "A New Transdisciplinary Paradigm for the Study of Complex Systems?", in: Self-Steering and Cognition in Complex Systems, Heylighen F., Rosseel E. & Demeyere F. (ed.), (Gordon and Breach, New York), p. 1-16.
Heylighen F. (1989): "Self-Organization, Emergence and the Architecture of Complexity", in: Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on System Science, (AFCET, Paris), p. 23-32. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1989): "On a proposal for the creation of an international network for complexity research", Kybernetes: An International Journal of Cybernetics and General Systems 18,5, p. 56-70.
*Heylighen F. (1989): "Causality as Distinction Conservation: a theory of predictability, reversibility and time order", Cybernetics and Systems 20, p. 361-384. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1989): "A Support System for Structuring Complex Problem Domains", in: Proc. 12th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Assoc. Intern. de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 1025-1032. --Shorter version of the IJMMS paper on hypermedia interfaces.
Heylighen F. (1988): "Project voor een Transdisciplinair Onderzoekscentrum"(Dutch for "Project for a Transdisciplinary Research Center"), Nieuw Tijdschrift van de VUB 2, p. 115-128.
Heylighen F. (1988): "Formulating the Problem of Problem-Formulation", in: Cybernetics and Systems '88, Trappl R. (ed.), (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht), p. 949-957. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1988): "Building a Science of Complexity", in: Proc. 1988 Annual Conference of the Cybernetics Society, H.A. Fatmi (ed.), (Cybernetics Society, King's College, London), p. 1-22. (PDF)
Heylighen F. (1987): "Formal Foundations for an Adaptive Metarepresentation", in: Cybernetics and Systems: the Way Ahead V2 J. Rose (ed.), (Thales, St. Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire), p. 648-651.
Heylighen F. (1986): "Towards a General Framework for Modelling Representation Changes", in: Proc. 11th Int. Congress on Cybernetics, (Assoc. Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 136-141.
*Heylighen F. (1984): "Het transcenderen van de conceptueel-symbolische code"(Dutch for "Transcending the Conceptual-Symbolic Code"), "O": tijdschrift voor filosofische beproevingen 7, p. 119-142. -- A very first attempt at a theory of metasystem transitions. Argues that science, art, philosophy and mystical experiences each provide complementary first steps towards a higher level of cognition, which would transcend the present conceptual-symbolic way of thinking.
*Heylighen F., Heath M., F. Van Overwalle (2004): The Emergence of Distributed Cognition: a conceptual framework, Proceedings of Collective Intentionality IV, Siena (Italy)*
*Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2004): "From Quantity to Quality of Life: r-K selection and human development", submitted*
Heylighen F. & C. Gershenson (2003): "The Meaning of Self-organization in Computing", IEEE Intelligent Systems 18:4, p. 72-75.
*Heylighen F. & Bollen J. (2002): "Hebbian Algorithms for a Digital Library Recommendation System", in Proceedings 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (IEEE Computer Society Press)*
*Heylighen F. & Dewaele J-M. (2002): "Variation in the contextuality of language: an empirical measure", Foundations of Science 6, p. 293-340 --a slighty shorter version of our unpublished paper on formality of language
Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2001): "Measuring Global Progress Through Subjective Well-Being", in: Proceedings of the III Conference of the ISQOLS (University of Girona Press), p. 515-528. --shorter version of Global Progress I, with some additional material on why the measurement of subjective well-being or happiness is prone to "relativistic" distortions, and how these could be minimized
*Heylighen F. & Bernheim J.(2000): "Global
Progress I: empirical evidence for increasing quality of life", Journal
of Happiness Studies 1 (3), p. 323-349
*Heylighen F. & Bernheim J. (2000): "Global Progress II: evolutionary
mechanisms and their side-effects", Journal of Happiness Studies 1(3),
p.
351-374
*Heylighen F. & Joslyn C. (2001): "Cybernetics and Second Order Cybernetics", in: R.A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology , Vol. 4 (3rd ed.), (Academic Press, New York), p. 155-170. --an dense introduction to and review of the basic ideas of cybernetics, including relational concepts, information and entropy, cyclical processes such as feedback, self-organization and autopoiesis, goal-directedness and control, the laws of requisite variety, requisite hierarchy and requisite knowledge, and a constructivist view of cognition and model-building.
*Heylighen F. & Bollen J. (1996) "The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: from metaphor to model", in: Cybernetics and Systems '96 R. Trappl (ed.), (Austrian Society for Cybernetics).p. 917-922. (PDF)
Heylighen F. & Joslyn C. (1995): "Towards a Theory of Metasystem Transitions", World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution 45, p. 1-4. --Preface to "The Quantum of Evolution".
Heylighen F. & Joslyn C. (1995): "Systems Theory", in: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, R. Audi (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), p.784-785.
*Heylighen F. & Campbell D.T. (1995): "Selection of Organization at the Social Level: obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions ", World Futures: the Journal of General Evolution 45, p. 181-212. (PDF)
Heylighen F. & Dewaele J-M. (1994): " Formality of Language: definition, measurement and behavioral determinants", (PDF) unpublished
Heylighen F. & Bollen J.(1994): "Development and Publication of Systems Knowledge on the Internet: the Principia Cybernetica Web", (unpublished)
Heylighen F. & Joslyn C. (1993): "Electronic Networking for Philosophical Development in the Principia Cybernetica Project", Informatica 17, No. 3, p. 285-293. --Similar to the "Notes on the Principia Cybernetica Project"
Heylighen F., Joslyn C. & Turchin V. (1991) : "A Short Introduction to the Principia Cybernetica Project", Journal of Ideas 2, #1 p. 26--29.
Van Overwalle F. & Heylighen F. (2006): Trust in Communication between Individuals: A Connectionist Approach, Proceedings 7th International Conference on Cognitive Modelling, Trieste, Italy, 5-8 April 2006
Chielens K. & Heylighen F. (2005): Operationalization of Meme Selection Criteria: procedures to empirically test memetic hypotheses, Proceedings AISB 2005 .
Heylighen A., Heylighen F., Bollen J. &, Mathias Casaer M. (2005): A distributed model for tacit design knowledge exchange, in: Proceedings of Social Intelligence Design 2005, R. Fruchter (ed.).
Gershenson C. & Heylighen F. (2004): Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence, in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Complex Systems (New England Institute of Complex Systems)
Gershenson C. & F. Heylighen (2004). How can we think the complex? in: Richardson, Kurt (ed.) Managing the Complex Vol. 1: Philosophy, Theory and Application.(Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence/Information Age Publishing)
Gershenson C. & F. Heylighen (2003). "When Can we Call a System Self-organizing?", In Banzhaf, W, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, and J. Ziegler (eds.), Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, ECAL 2003, (Springer, LNAI 2801.), p. 606-614.
Joslyn C. & Heylighen F. (1999): "Cybernetics", in: The Encyclopedia of Computer Science, D. Hemmendinger, A. Ralston & E. Reilly (eds.) (Nature Publishing Group, London), p. 470-473.
Bollen J. & Heylighen F. (1998): "A system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models", New Review of HyperMedia and Multimedia 4, p. 189-213.
Bollen, J., Heylighen F. & van Rooy D. (1998): "Improving Memetic Evolution in Hypertext and the WWW", in: Proc. 16th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internat. de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 449-454.
Bollen J. & Heylighen F. (1997): "Dynamic and adaptive structuring of the World Wide Web based on user navigation patterns", Proceedings of the Flexible Hypertext Workshop (Macquarie Computing Reports, Sydney), p. 13-17.
Van Overwalle, F., & Heylighen, F. (1995): "Relating covariation information to causal dimensions through principles of contrast and invariance", European Journal of Social Psychology 25, p. 435-455.
*Bollen J. & Heylighen F. (1996) "Algorithms for the self-organisation of distributed, multi-user networks. Possible application to the future World Wide Web", in: Cybernetics and Systems '96 R. Trappl (ed.), (Austrian Society for Cybernetics), p. 911-916. (PDF)
Dewaele J-M. & Heylighen F.(1994): "Formality of Language II: linguistic, situational and personality variable correlated with formality", unpublished
Joslyn C., Heylighen F. & Turchin V. (1993): "Synopsis of the Principia Cybernetica Project", in: Proc. 13th Int. Congress on Cybernetics (Association Internationale de Cybernétique, Namur), p. 509-513.
Boden M., Geyer F., Maturana H., Pask G. & Heylighen F. (1990): "Old and New Cybernetics: a panel discussion", in: Self-Steering and Cognition in Complex Systems, Heylighen F., Rosseel E. & Demeyere F. (ed.), (Gordon and Breach, New York), p. 33-46.
Van Overwalle F.J., Heylighen F., Casaer S. & Daniels M. (1992): "Preattributional and Attributional Determinants of Emotions and Expectations", European Journal of Social Psychology 20, p. 313-329.
Van Overwalle F.J. & Heylighen F.: "Covariation and Contrast under Time and Task Constraints: evidence for an invariance rule?", unpublished
Van Overwalle F.J. & Heylighen F. (1991): "Invariantiekenmerken bij antecedente condities en attributionele dimensies: waarnemen van oorzaken, verwachtingen en emoties"(Dutch for "Invariance Features associated with Antecedent Conditions and Attributional Dimensions: perception of causes, expectations and emotions"), in: Fundamentele Sociale Psychologie (deel 5), J. van der Pligt, W. van der Kloot, A. van Knippenberg & M. Poppe (eds.) (Tilburg University Press, Netherlands), p. 44-60.
Sjödin T. & Heylighen F. (1985): "Tachyons
Imply the Existence of a Privileged Frame", Lettere al Nuovo Cimento (now
Europhysics Letters) 44, p. 617-623.