Guided self-organization: perception–action loops of embodied systems

Information Measures of Complexity, Emergence, Self-organization, Homeostasis, and Autopoiesis

“…In any case, it is convenient to have a measure of self-organization which can capture the nature of local dynamics at a global scale. This is especially relevant for the nascent field of guided self-organization (GSO) (Prokopenko, 2009;Ay et al, 2012;Polani et al, 2013). GSO can be described as the steering of the self-organizing dynamics of a system towards a desired configuration (Gershenson, 2012a).…”

On the Cross-Disciplinary Nature of Guided Self-Organisation

“…Selected papers of previous Workshops were published in the special or topical issues on Guided Self-Organisation by the Human Frontier Science Program Journal (GSO-2008) (Prokopenko 2009), Theory in Biosciences (GSO-2009) (Ay et al 2011), Advances in Complex Systems (GSO-2010and GSO-2011 (Polani et al 2013). Following these workshops and the series of journal issues, it has become apparent that this is the right time to have a book that includes chapters not only focussing on particular topics presented at the most recent workshop, but also covering development of the topic over the last few years since the beginning of the workshop series.…”

“…This set of features is sufficiently general: it allows to include multiple drivers to guide a self-organising system/process, by treating these drivers as additional objective functions and/or constraints imposed on the system under consideration (Ay et al 2011). These features also do not presume any specific modelling methodology.…”

Measuring the Complexity of Self-Organizing Traffic Lights

“…A question remains: how should self-organization be guided to achieve efficient traffic flow? This can be explored under the nascent field of guided self-organization [23][24][25][26].…”