[P2P-F] important advance in network theory approaches

Mon Sep 5 09:50:55 CEST 2011

thanks Sam,

this may be the case, but I see a lot of network theory literature, for
example the much cited Reed's law, which ignores human volition ..

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Michel Bauwens
> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
> > Dear TOmas,
> >
> > This is quite important in my opinion with network theory finally
> including
> > human volition and abandoning reductionism,
> >
> > I really hope you can look into this for discussion at our blog,
> >
> > see http://gfbertini.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wisdom-about-crowds/ ;
> > http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss
> >
> >
> >  Existing models of crowd behaviour do just that. They treat moving
> masses
> > of humanity as though they were fluids. This works, up to a point. But it
> > often fails to predict the changes that happen as a crowd’s density
> > increases and its movement becomes chaotic. That is why Mehdi Moussaid of
> > Paul Sabatier University, in Toulouse, and his colleagues have made a
> > radical innovation. Instead of treating the individual human beings in a
> > crowd as if they were molecules, they have treated them as if they were
> > human beings. They have, in other words, given them volition. Of course,
> the
> > objective of someone in a moving crowd is usually fairly simple—to get
> > somewhere and then stay there. But it is an objective, nevertheless.
> >
>
> Unless I am really missing something, this is absolutely not anything
> new in the world of network sciences and complex systems
> science/modeling/theory. In fact, practically every agent based
> complex systems model applies simple rules to the agents and then runs
> the model to see what will happen. This goes all the way back to John
> Holland, Robert Axelrod, and others who pioneered complex systems
> models. Read the article on The Economist itself to see why I am
> having this reaction:
> http://www.economist.com/node/18584096?story_id=18584096&fsrc=rss
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