The professor who supervised me during my doctorate in history was a great scholar. He was also an impressive rhetorician and a brilliant author. I considered it a privilege to be his student. Our relationship was very warm and personal, and he had a tremendous influence on my development. Nevertheless, I did not have a

Which social norms and networks maximize cooperation in bilateral relationships? We study a network of players in which each link is a repeated bilateral partnership with two-sided moral hazard. �e obstacle to community enforcement is that each player observes the behavior of her partners

In the reviews and pre-publication comments on the covers of Castells ' trilogy on the information age it is welcomed as a superlative achievement. Anthony Giddens claims it is not fanciful to compare the work to Max Weber's Economy and Society. Peter Hall compares it to Marx

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This ”work in progress ” paper seeks to contribute to the research in trust. In doing so the paper conciders the functions of trust and specifically the challenges to trust in on-line contexts. Further, it seeks to understand how trust can be conceptualized in the case of proprietary and open source software development respectively. The question is whether closed source development, and closed, opaque organizations in general, may be damaging to trust within the social context of reflexive modernity.

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В статье рассматривается фундаментальный процесс трансформации современного общества в связи с онтологической проблематикой философии. Обосновывается определяющая роль онтологического сдвига от интерпретации бытия как стабильной метафизической структуры к онтологии становления. Сетевая горизонтальная структура, становящаяся архитектоникой социальной структуры, представляет собой социальную импликацию динамического бытия. Дополнение диалектического понимания социальной динамики ситуативной методологией позволяет расширить понимание процессов, происходящих в современном обществе. Ключевые слова: социум, сеть, сообщество, идентичность, бытие, становление.

Human and computational systems increasingly rely on • decentralized structures • communication via the environment (stigmergy) rather than only via messages. We look at • communication among social insects • changes in business and social structures made possible by Internet computing David Keil Decentralization and Stigmergy 2/08 2 Related topics • Problems of mathematically modeling stigmergic and decentralized computational behavior • swarm computing • evolutionary computation • emergent behavior • self-organization

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Management of systemic risks and cascade