Title :
Emergent Collectives
Author_Institution :
Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
Abstract :
Emergent collectives are networks of information or function nodes with minimal central control. People can easily add nodes to the network and often have a social incentive to do so. The author argues that such collectives are an important feature of today´s economy and that enterprises could benefit from simulating such collectives to problem solve and predict potential disruptions.
Keywords :
Internet; emergent collectives; function nodes; information networks; social incentive; Distributed computing; Human computer interaction; Network architecture; Distributing computing; distributed agent systems; emergent collectives; human-centered computing;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2011.116