#adaptivesystems

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My paper titled "Adaptive learning Next Generation Digital Platform"  submission to IEEE-ICECEIC-2019 got accepted.

Conference Details:

http://www.eceic.org.in/index.php

check out the submitted article: "Adaptive learning

Next Generation Digital Platform"

https://goo.gl/wVb6FK

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Stuff I'm Reading wrt The Internet and Society as a Complex Adaptive System

I'm currently reading and re-reading.

The Wealth of Networks. Yochai Benkler. (2006) A dense and immensely satisfying work from the leading intellectual of the internet age. Bonus link: Its also freely available in many formats including wiki, remixes and formats where you can take and share notes as you read.

Complex Adaptive Systems. Miller and Page (2007). The focus here is specifically on society as a complex adaptive system. A great romp through the key concepts and experimental approaches demonstrating how complex economic, political, organisational systems emerge 'bottom up' from the activity of agents following simple interactional rules. Social Emergence. R. Keith Sawyer (2005).

Another book focusing on societies as complex dynamical systems. In this book Sawyer presents a critical review of sociological theories through the ages resurrects and redevelops ideas first put forward by Durkheim (swarm intelligence) and combines insights derived from computational agent-based models (more on these below) with insights of his own developed from his work with improvisational theater groups.

Growing Artificial Societies (1996) Epstein and Axtell. The authors both member of the Sante Fe institute bring the reader through groundbreaking landmark Sugarscape model to demonstrate that a wide range of important social phenomena can emerge from the interaction of individual agents following a few simple rules. More on Epstein. More on Axtell.

Generative Social Science (2006) Epstein. A powerful consolidation of the research activity relevant to society as a complex adaptive systems in the decade since the publication of Growing Artificial Societies.

Emergence (2001) Steven Johnson. Popular science book. Very good. For the most part the focus in on physical structures that emerge from stigmergic interaction eg anthills, cities, network structures on the internet as opposed to explaining emergent phenomena that give rise to sophisticated social, political and economical structures. (Bonus link: StevenBerlinJohnson's blog. where I discovered he is the co-founder of Web2.0 startup outside.in )