A Common Language for a Networked Society?

摘要: The Call for Papers the Symposium Vernetzung als soziales und technisches Paradigma stipulates optimistic view that self-organized, „networked“ systems are to become a preferred choice over centrally organized, hierarchical systems. This assumption seems justified by some developments originating from contemporary computing technologies, particularly success of meta-heuristics asymptotically solving NP-complete search problems. Genetic algorithms or ant colony (De Jong 2006; Dorigo and Stutzle 2004; Kennedy et al. 2001; Bonabeau 1999; Lin Lee 1996) suitable optimization problems cannot be solved exactly deterministic algorithm. But communicating simple agents can find very good approximate solution. power cooperating in network also Milgram’s letter forwarding experiment (Travers Milgram 1969). A recent study Jon Kleinberg analysing link-data Internet provides further evidence this direction (2008).