Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday June 3, 14h-16h Place: *room **D.2.16*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ Making sense of decentralized (IT) governance Viktoras Veitas <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/viktoras-veitas/3/119/a82> (ECCO, GBI) Abstract: In this seminar I will discuss the concepts of distributed and decentralized governance and their application for understanding non-centralized systems in general and IT systems in particular. Two complementary perspectives will be presented, analysed and related: (1) conceptual perspective to distributed intelligence in an hyper-connected and accelerating world and (2) computational perspective to a network of autonomous interacting processes. I will show a deep connection between the two in the light of the frameworks of Open-ended intelligence and Synthetic Cognitive Development [1,2] which abstract and extend the process of cognitive development to general agents and systems. The connection allows to approach diverse systems, including individual intelligences (humans and others), social systems (teams, organizations, communities), IT systems (sharing economy platforms, internet in general) from the viewpoint of decentralized/distributed computing. This viewpoint will be illustrated and discussed using the example of an Offer Network - an Intelligent Network for Matching Offer and Demand in a sharing economy [3]. References: [1] Weinbaum, D. R., & Veitas, V. (2016). Open Ended Intelligence: The individuation of Intelligent Agents. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, in press. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.06366; [2] Weinbaum, D. R., & Veitas, V. (2016). Synthetic Cognitive Development: where intelligence comes from. European Physical Journal-Special Topics, in press. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0159; [3] Heylighen, F. (2016). Towards an Intelligent Network for Matching Offer and Demand: from the sharing economy to the Global Brain. Technological Forecasting & Social Change, in press. Retrieved from http://pcp.vub.ac.be/Papers/GB-OfferNetwork.pdf ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *June 10 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia *Can We Fork the State? Open Source Legislation for the Government of Earth* 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 <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/>
