Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our tenth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2014-2015)
Time: Friday May 8, 14h-16h Place: *room D.2.06* ------------------------------ Information processing and political order Simon DeDeo <http://%20http://santafe.edu/%7Esimon> (Indiana University and the Santa Fe Institute) Abstract: The failure of rigid bureaucracies to manage the complexity of evolving societies is well known; conversely, the successes of markets, institutions, and representative democracies are often attributed to the extent to which they allow for decentralized control and the processing of distributed information about needs and desires. Online social systems provide a crucial laboratory for the critical study of these claims. We present three interconnected results on a decade of cooperation and conflict in Wikipedia. These provide new insight into how social systems process information, the emergence of social micro-norms, and for understanding how top-down interventions compete with the emergent dynamics of large-scale societies. ------------------------------ See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
