Fractal Social Organizations – Models and Concepts for Socio-technical Systems and Organizations

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A SuperMinds 2014 Talk by Vincenzo De Florio (iMinds - PATS – UAntwerpen). Often we experience how traditional organizations are ineffective and unable to scale well to the sizes of our new “big world”. Novel and “smarter” organizations must be experimented in order to get rid of structural “lock-ins” and achieve greater scalability, robustness, manageability, and evolvability. Fractal Social Organizations are a model that, we hypothesize, may capture and conquer the hidden and fractal structure of human social organizations. Here we present our model and discuss its potential benefits.

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FRACTAL�SOCIAL�ORGANI-�ZATIONS Vincenzo De Florio iMinds-UA-PATS

THE WHOLE is more than THE SUM

of ITS PARTS ‘ ‘- ARISTOTLE

NEED A “GLUE”!

MUTUALISTIC EXCHANGE

Part Whole

Bee Beehive

Man Slaving Factory

you can’t treat a COMPLEX SYSTEM as if it were a COG

P2P, CONTEXT-DRIVEN,

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION

Factory

Man

Part Part

I’d like to walk

w/someo

ne!

I’d like to chat

w/someo

ne!

Broker

CHAT ~ WALK

SemanticBroker

Part Part

SELF-SERVE�MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: WIN-WIN

Photosynthesis Respiration

Part Part O2

CO2

“NATURAL” STRATEGY!

Part Part

CO2

O2

AN ECOSYSTEM!

A hierarchy of WHOLEs emerges

– each GREATER

than the SUM of its PARTS

FRACTAL SOCIAL ORGANIZATION 001122222222

A hierarchy of WHOLEs emerges

– each GREATER

than the SUM of its PARTS

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FRACTAL!

THE WHOLE CAN BE(E) more than THE SUM

of ITS PARTS ‘ ‘IF THE ORGANIZATION

PLAYS A CLEVER... PART!

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