[P2P-F] important advance in network theory approaches

Thu Sep 8 04:59:53 CEST 2011

any biblio for guidance?

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Michel Bauwens <michel at p2pfoundation.net>
> wrote:
> > 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 ..
> >
>
> I can imagine. I think if you are interested in network theory, it is
> definitely worth knowing the complex systems thinkers from throughout
> the 1980's to present (if you do not already). Lots of great useful
> work there.
>
> > 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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