Co-operation and Self-Organization

Analyzing Learners' Self-organization in Terms of Co-construction, Co-operation and Co-ordination

We define a pedagogic collective challenge as a CSCL learning situation where: (1) the problem is designed to make learners practice some target domain-related and/or metacognitive competencies; (2) a group of learners is involved, as a team, in the solving of the problem; (3) the solving requires the learners to join their forces; (4) the problem and the setting are designed to create a positi...

Co-evolutionary Agent Self-Organization for City Traffic Congestion Modeling

This paper introduces a model based on a multi-agent system that learns using the extended classifier system (MAXCS). The agents are informed in the news, after the weather forecast, the congestion levels of the main city avenues and they decide which avenue to use the following day. The results are encouraging, as the agents, both homogeneous and heterogeneous adapt to the congestion threshold...

Co-operative Transport System and investigation of the co-operation

This paper deals with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and the concept of a Co-operative Transport System (CTS), in which the communication and the knowledge sharing is much more important. This distributed knowledge allows improving road transport operations more safety and efficiency. After showing some issues about development and advantages of a CTS, the communication part is discussed a...

The Organisation of Co-operation

Complexity and Self-organization

this article introduces some of the main concepts and methods of the science studying complex, self-organizing systems and networks, in a non-technical manner. Complexity cannot be strictly defined, only situated in between order and disorder. A complex system is typically modeled as a collection of interacting agents, representing components as diverse as people, cells or molecules. Because of...