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Grass-Roots Gurus Funds - a practical application
of symbiotic intelligence
A popular article about how online communties literally
playing in the stock market are the source for investments for mutual
funds (for example, StockJungle.com).
The article closes with a summary of how Norman Johnson's work might
explain the better performance of the collectives, even though they don't
have experts.
Diversity in Decentralized Systems:Enabling Self-Organizing
Solutions by N.L. Johnson. Presented at the Decentralization II
Conference, UCLA, November 19-20, 1999 (LA-UR 99-6281) PDF
file (168K).
This paper was presented to a group of social scientists
(anthropology, political science, economics, business, etc.) concerned
with how decentralization influences the functioning of organizations.
This paper contains careful definitions of terms, such as agent, local/global,
robust/fragile, self-organizing, chaotic/stable, diversity and common
world view (context). The advantages and disadvantages of decentralized
systems are presented.
Developmental Insights into Evolving Systems: Roles of Diversity, Non-Selection,
Self-Organization, Symbiosis by N.L. Johnson. In Artificial Life
VII, M. Bedau, Ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000 (LA-UR-00-844) PDF
file (397K).
Overview of Project and Subject Area
Grass-Roots Gurus Funds - a practical application
of symbiotic intelligence
A popular article about how online communties literally
playing in the stock market are the source for investments for mutual
funds (for example, StockJungle.com).
The article closes with a summary of how Norman Johnson's work might
explain the better performance of the collectives, even though they don't
have experts.
by N. Johnson, for 4th Annual Desktop Collaboration
Conference & Exposition, 11-14 May 1999, Founders Inn, Virginia
Beach, VA (LA-UR-99-1724). Presentation
and paper available.
New Frontiers in Collective Problem Solving
by N. Johnson, S. Rasmussen and M. Kantor. Published
in Theoretical Division -- Self-Assessment, Special Feature, May 1998 (LA-UR
98-1150). This document is the reproduced as the main summary on the Home
Page.
Symbiotic Intelligence: Self-organizing knowledge
on distributed networks driven by human interactions
by N. Johnson, S. Rasmussen, C. Joslyn, L. Rocha,
S. Smith and M. Kantor. Appears in 6th Artificial Life Conference
'98, eds. C. Adami, et al., MIT Press (1998) - (LA-UR 98-489). PDF
file (47K), Postscript (141K).
by M. Kantor and N. Johnson. White Paper presented
at Next Generation Internet (NGI) Meeting NGI
document (9K) April 1997. (LA-UR-97-1200).
Diversity Processes in Social, Economic and Biological Systems
Developmental Insights into Evolving Systems:
Roles of Diversity, Non-Selection, Self-Organization, Symbiosis
by N.L. Johnson. In Artificial Life VII, M. Bedau,
Ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, 2000 (LA-UR-00-844) PDF
file (397K).
Diversity in Decentralized Systems:Enabling Self-Organizing
Solutions
by N.L. Johnson. Presented at the Decentralization
II Conference, UCLA, November 19-20, 1999 (LA-UR 99-6281) PDF
file (168K).
The Importance of Diversity: Reconciling natural selection
and non-competitive processes
by N.L. Johnson. New York Academy of Sciences, Proceedings
of the 7th Annual Washington Evolutionary System Conference: Emergent
Organizations and their Dynamics, University of Gent, Belgium, May
3-5, 1999. PDF file (125K)
(LA-UR-99-3048).
The Science of Social Diversity
by N.L. Johnson and V.A. Longmire. Published in Theoretical
Division -- Self-Assessment, Special Feature, May 1999 (LA-UR 99-336) PDF
file (49K).
Diversity and Optimality
by Lu Hong and Scott E. Page from Department
of Economics, Syracuse University and Department of Economics, University
of Iowa. Submitted for publication in 1998, available here by authors'
permission. PDF file (383K). Also
see the companion paper in the next section.
Collective Problem Solving Simulations or Web Studies
Collective
Problem Solving: Functionality beyond the Individual
by Lu Hong and Scott E. Page from Department
of Economics, Syracuse University and Department of Economics, University
of Iowa. Submitted for publication in 1997, available here by authors'
permission. PDF file (431K).
Diversity and Optimality
by Lu Hong and Scott E. Page from Department
of Economics, Syracuse University and Department of Economics, University
of Iowa. Submitted for publication in 1998, available here by authors'
permission. PDF file (383K).
Semantic Representations and Development:
Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational
Formfor Cybernetics
by Cliff Joslyn. Published in Proc. 1996 European
Conf. on Cybernetics and Systems Research, ed. R. Trappl, Vienna, v.
2, pp. 905-910 (1996). Postscript.
Semantic Representations for Collaborative, Distributed
Scientific Information Systems
by Cliff Joslyn, John Hogden, Marianna Kantor and
Norman Johnson, funding proposal for LDRD-IP grant (1997).
Methods for Capturing Cognitive Categorization:
Categorizing Databases, Evidence Sets, and Evolutionary
Constructivism
Simulations of Evolving Embodied Semiosis: Emergent Semantics in Artificial Environments
by L. Rocha and C. Joslyn from The Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on VirtualWorlds and Simulation 1998. Landauer C. and K.L. Bellman (Eds). The Society for Computer Simulation International, pp. 233-238. (Web page with links to documents.)
