Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?
Abstract I present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and relate...
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| description | Abstract I present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and related concepts (how?), and close with applications (why?) in physics, chemistry, biology, collective behavior, ecology, communication networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, social science, urbanism, philosophy, and engineering. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0fb5afeec72a479ca06d1b7148cc0fe32025-08-20T02:10:09ZengNature Portfolionpj Complexity2731-87532025-03-01211810.1038/s44260-025-00031-5Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?Carlos Gershenson0Department of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, State University of New York at BinghamtonAbstract I present a personal account of self-organizing systems, framing relevant questions to better understand self-organization, information, complexity, and emergence. With this aim, I start with a notion and examples of self-organizing systems (what?), continue with their properties and related concepts (how?), and close with applications (why?) in physics, chemistry, biology, collective behavior, ecology, communication networks, robotics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, social science, urbanism, philosophy, and engineering.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44260-025-00031-5 |
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