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Self-organizing traffic lights: A realistic simulation
Seung-Bae Cools, Carlos Gershenson, Bart D'Hooghe
We have previously shown in an abstract simulation (Gershenson, 2005) that self-organizing traffic lights can improve greatly traffic flow for any density. In this paper, we extend…
Evolution of Complexity: Introduction to the Workshop
Carlos Gershenson, Tom Lenaerts
The evolution of complexity has been a central theme for Biology and Artificial Life (Bonner, 1988; Bedau et al., 2000). Complexification has been interpreted in different ways: as…
Complexity and Philosophy
Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenson
The science of complexity is based on a new way of thinking that stands in sharp contrast to the philosophy underlying Newtonian science, which is based on reductionism, determinis…
Towards Self-organizing Bureaucracies
Carlos Gershenson
This paper proposes self-organization as a method to improve the efficiency and adaptability of bureaucracies and similar social systems. Bureaucracies are described as networks of…