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Tom Johnson
FYI.

Modelling in Wired
<http://www.feedblitz.com/t.asp?/21296/1578027/http://apb.directionsmag.com/archives/3094-Modelling-in-Wired.html>

* (Adena Schutzberg)*

Wired explains how the Bureau of Land Management is using HEC-RAS and ArcGIS
to model what will happen when the dammed Vetura River becomes "undammed."
Lots of nice graphics, too.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/07/dam

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Phil Henshaw-2
The SASO conference last week
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering
communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors,
and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad
new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most
telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at
now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new
organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in
a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big
problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side,
and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.
My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how
engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and
I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of
any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use
for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I
also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to
understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the
NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal
engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to
'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  
 
The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new
understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these
things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just
experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical
measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that
it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is
important because one of the main motives for commercializing these
methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity
of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to
design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in
discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You
need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms
of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns
on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen
in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are
to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.

 
The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the
system people are thinking we need to move the world's information
control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a
growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.
I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.
For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of
complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of
growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to
do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also
consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial
'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits
and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence,
perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.
Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows
helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that
is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing
for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way
to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may
be extendable to other things....
 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  
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Mikhail Gorelkin
MessageNorvig's article "Adaptive Software" (http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html) gave me more then this conference :-( --Mikhail



----- Original Message -----
  From: phil henshaw
  To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
  Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
  Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


  The SASO conference last week http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors, and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side, and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.    My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to 'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  

  The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is important because one of the main motives for commercializing these methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.  

  The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the system people are thinking we need to move the world's information control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.  I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.   For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial 'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence, perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.   Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may be extendable to other things....


  Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  680 Ft. Washington Ave
  NY NY 10040                      
  tel: 212-795-4844                
  e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
  explorations: www.synapse9.com  


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MessageIt's interesting how they will attack the same problems on this workshop http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ --Mikhail

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: phil henshaw
  To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
  Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
  Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


  The SASO conference last week http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors, and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side, and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.    My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to 'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  

  The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is important because one of the main motives for commercializing these methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.  

  The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the system people are thinking we need to move the world's information control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.  I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.   For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial 'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence, perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.   Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may be extendable to other things....


  Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  680 Ft. Washington Ave
  NY NY 10040                      
  tel: 212-795-4844                
  e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
  explorations: www.synapse9.com  


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Phil Henshaw-2
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yes, thanks.   The article looks like a good one to read carefully.
I've got some train time tommorow....
 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:24 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


Norvig's article "Adaptive Software" (
<http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html>
http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html) gave me more then this conference
:-( --Mikhail

 

----- Original Message -----

From: phil henshaw <mailto:[hidden email]>  
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity  <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
Coffee Group'
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things

The SASO conference last week
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering
communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors,
and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad
new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most
telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at
now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new
organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in
a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big
problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side,
and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.
My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how
engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and
I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of
any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use
for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I
also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to
understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the
NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal
engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to
'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  
 
The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new
understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these
things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just
experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical
measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that
it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is
important because one of the main motives for commercializing these
methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity
of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to
design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in
discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You
need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms
of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns
on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen
in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are
to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.

 
The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the
system people are thinking we need to move the world's information
control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a
growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.
I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.
For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of
complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of
growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to
do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also
consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial
'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits
and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence,
perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.
Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows
helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that
is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing
for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way
to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may
be extendable to other things....
 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  



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Mikhail Gorelkin
MessageThe problem is it was written in 2001! And since than no articles of the subject I can recommend for reading. --Mikhail
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: phil henshaw
  To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
  Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 11:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


  yes, thanks.   The article looks like a good one to read carefully.   I've got some train time tommorow....


  Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  680 Ft. Washington Ave
  NY NY 10040                      
  tel: 212-795-4844                
  e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
  explorations: www.synapse9.com  
    -----Original Message-----
    From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
    Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:24 PM
    To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


    Norvig's article "Adaptive Software" (http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html) gave me more then this conference :-( --Mikhail

     

    ----- Original Message -----
      From: phil henshaw
      To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
      Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
      Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


      The SASO conference last week http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors, and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side, and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.    My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to 'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  

      The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is important because one of the main motives for commercializing these methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.  

      The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the system people are thinking we need to move the world's information control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.  I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.   For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial 'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence, perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.   Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may be extendable to other things....


      Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      680 Ft. Washington Ave
      NY NY 10040                      
      tel: 212-795-4844                
      e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
      explorations: www.synapse9.com  


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Phil Henshaw-2
In reply to this post by Mikhail Gorelkin
thanks for the links - it's very helpful to have a nice overview from
the software perspective, I thought to pass them on as a note on my
PICS.htm page for the SASO audience.
 
 
07/16/07 - Messages from the Softside...  

SASO was more about the theory of control systems, and a friend sent me
some links on how the software people are now looking at the same
transition to flowing organization from static structure.    The first
link is to an overview article by Norvig & Cohen's about Adaptive
Software, and using the term a little differently.   It's of a 2007
perspective but seems slightly dated in some things, like leaving out
the distinction between the   software's own 'self-' adaptive and the
'user-' adaptive and the 'designer-' adaptive modes of that.   They also
seem poised to realize that turning software a
gents around to use them for watching the behavior of the complex
natural systems in which we operate, is a way to see the complexity of
the larger systems and 'see' what's coming which is neat.

re:  <http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html>
http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html - a nice overview understanding of
complex software design environs, though note interesting error, in
giving the date as 'today'  as if 'today' would still be that when it's
read tomorrow...:-) - some advertisement angle, but great overview
perspective and links  
re:  <http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/>
http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ - a July,24 07 conference in China
discussing many of the same things

 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:34 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


It's interesting how they will attack the same problems on this workshop
http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ --Mikhail

----- Original Message -----
From: phil henshaw <mailto:[hidden email]>  
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Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things

The SASO conference last week
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering
communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors,
and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad
new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most
telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at
now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new
organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in
a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big
problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side,
and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.
My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how
engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and
I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of
any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use
for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I
also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to
understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the
NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal
engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to
'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  
 
The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new
understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these
things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just
experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical
measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that
it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is
important because one of the main motives for commercializing these
methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity
of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to
design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in
discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You
need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms
of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns
on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen
in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are
to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.

 
The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the
system people are thinking we need to move the world's information
control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a
growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.
I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.
For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of
complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of
growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to
do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also
consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial
'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits
and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence,
perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.
Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows
helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that
is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing
for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way
to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may
be extendable to other things....
 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
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tel: 212-795-4844                
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MessagePhil,

There is one error:

> It's of a ***2007*** perspective but seems slightly dated in some things

Actually, the article was written in ***2001***!

--Mikhail
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  To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
  Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:52 AM
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  thanks for the links - it's very helpful to have a nice overview from the software perspective, I thought to pass them on as a note on my PICS.htm page for the SASO audience.


  07/16/07 - Messages from the Softside...  
    SASO was more about the theory of control systems, and a friend sent me some links on how the software people are now looking at the same transition to flowing organization from static structure.    The first link is to an overview article by Norvig & Cohen's about Adaptive Software, and using the term a little differently.   It's of a 2007 perspective but seems slightly dated in some things, like leaving out the distinction between the   software's own 'self-' adaptive and the 'user-' adaptive and the 'designer-' adaptive modes of that.   They also seem poised to realize that turning software a
    gents around to use them for watching the behavior of the complex natural systems in which we operate, is a way to see the complexity of the larger systems and 'see' what's coming which is neat.

    re: http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html - a nice overview understanding of complex software design environs, though note interesting error, in giving the date as 'today'  as if 'today' would still be that when it's read tomorrow...:-) - some advertisement angle, but great overview perspective and links  
    re: http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ - a July,24 07 conference in China discussing many of the same things


  Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  680 Ft. Washington Ave
  NY NY 10040                      
  tel: 212-795-4844                
  e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
  explorations: www.synapse9.com  
    -----Original Message-----
    From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
    Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:34 PM
    To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


    It's interesting how they will attack the same problems on this workshop http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ --Mikhail

      ----- Original Message -----
      From: phil henshaw
      To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
      Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
      Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


      The SASO conference last week http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors, and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side, and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.    My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to 'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  

      The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is important because one of the main motives for commercializing these methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.  

      The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the system people are thinking we need to move the world's information control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.  I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.   For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial 'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence, perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.   Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may be extendable to other things....


      Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      680 Ft. Washington Ave
      NY NY 10040                      
      tel: 212-795-4844                
      e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
      explorations: www.synapse9.com  


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Oh, thanks much.    I didn't know quite what to say since it did seem
dated (in thinking) somehow, and I wanted to complain that the article
had no date on it.   Then I noticed that the file name had a 2007 date.
So I guess it had a falsified date...   I study process, and it makes a
huge difference to whether you can put things together to have
successive changes in at least the correct order.
 
btw, did my other suggestion ring true,  that one of the things
self-organizing and self-adaptive programming is looking for is a
'Cambrian' explosion of new body forms, that might be spawned by looking
at the body parts of natural systems?
 
 

Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>    

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:10 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


Phil,
 
There is one error:
 
> It's of a ***2007*** perspective but seems slightly dated in some
things
 
Actually, the article was written in ***2001***!
 
--Mikhail

----- Original Message -----
From: phil henshaw <mailto:[hidden email]>  
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity  <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
Coffee Group'
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


thanks for the links - it's very helpful to have a nice overview from
the software perspective, I thought to pass them on as a note on my
PICS.htm page for the SASO audience.
 
 

07/16/07 - Messages from the Softside...  


SASO was more about the theory of control systems, and a friend sent me
some links on how the software people are now looking at the same
transition to flowing organization from static structure.    The first
link is to an overview article by Norvig & Cohen's about Adaptive
Software, and using the term a little differently.   It's of a 2007
perspective but seems slightly dated in some things, like leaving out
the distinction between the   software's own 'self-' adaptive and the
'user-' adaptive and the 'designer-' adaptive modes of that.   They also
seem poised to realize that turning software a
gents around to use them for watching the behavior of the complex
natural systems in which we operate, is a way to see the complexity of
the larger systems and 'see' what's coming which is neat.

re:  <http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html>
http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html - a nice overview understanding of
complex software design environs, though note interesting error, in
giving the date as 'today'  as if 'today' would still be that when it's
read tomorrow...:-) - some advertisement angle, but great overview
perspective and links  
re:  <http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/>
http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ - a July,24 07 conference in China
discussing many of the same things

 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:34 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


It's interesting how they will attack the same problems on this workshop
http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ --Mikhail

----- Original Message -----
From: phil henshaw <mailto:[hidden email]>  
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity  <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
Coffee Group'
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things

The SASO conference last week
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering
communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors,
and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad
new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most
telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at
now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new
organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in
a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big
problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side,
and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.
My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how
engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and
I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of
any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use
for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I
also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to
understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the
NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal
engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to
'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  
 
The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new
understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these
things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just
experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical
measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that
it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is
important because one of the main motives for commercializing these
methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity
of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to
design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in
discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You
need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms
of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns
on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen
in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are
to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.

 
The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the
system people are thinking we need to move the world's information
control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a
growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.
I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.
For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of
complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of
growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to
do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also
consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial
'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits
and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence,
perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.
Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows
helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that
is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing
for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way
to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may
be extendable to other things....
 
 
Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040                      
tel: 212-795-4844                
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
explorations: www.synapse9.com <http://www.synapse9.com/>  



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MessageBody forms (what Sussman had in mind) are an absolutely new paradigm that first we must study from systems theory & cybernetics point of view. A reference to natural systems is appropriate here. Self-adaptive programming is a relatively new concept of merging software design and cybernetics; and a challenge here is just digest what cybernetics can offer us. First results are: Dynamic Object Model, Stafford Beer's Viable System Model for software, the Adaptive Strategy Design Pattern, and the like what I was expected from SASO. --Mikhail P.S. I have a very little to say about self-organization.



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  Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:04 AM
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  Oh, thanks much.    I didn't know quite what to say since it did seem dated (in thinking) somehow, and I wanted to complain that the article had no date on it.   Then I noticed that the file name had a 2007 date.   So I guess it had a falsified date...   I study process, and it makes a huge difference to whether you can put things together to have successive changes in at least the correct order.

  btw, did my other suggestion ring true,  that one of the things self-organizing and self-adaptive programming is looking for is a 'Cambrian' explosion of new body forms, that might be spawned by looking at the body parts of natural systems?



  Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  680 Ft. Washington Ave
  NY NY 10040                      
  tel: 212-795-4844                
  e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
  explorations: www.synapse9.com    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
    Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 12:10 PM
    To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


    Phil,

    There is one error:

    > It's of a ***2007*** perspective but seems slightly dated in some things

    Actually, the article was written in ***2001***!

    --Mikhail
      ----- Original Message -----
      From: phil henshaw
      To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
      Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 10:52 AM
      Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


      thanks for the links - it's very helpful to have a nice overview from the software perspective, I thought to pass them on as a note on my PICS.htm page for the SASO audience.


      07/16/07 - Messages from the Softside...  
        SASO was more about the theory of control systems, and a friend sent me some links on how the software people are now looking at the same transition to flowing organization from static structure.    The first link is to an overview article by Norvig & Cohen's about Adaptive Software, and using the term a little differently.   It's of a 2007 perspective but seems slightly dated in some things, like leaving out the distinction between the   software's own 'self-' adaptive and the 'user-' adaptive and the 'designer-' adaptive modes of that.   They also seem poised to realize that turning software a
        gents around to use them for watching the behavior of the complex natural systems in which we operate, is a way to see the complexity of the larger systems and 'see' what's coming which is neat.

        re: http://norvig.com/adapaper-pcai.html - a nice overview understanding of complex software design environs, though note interesting error, in giving the date as 'today'  as if 'today' would still be that when it's read tomorrow...:-) - some advertisement angle, but great overview perspective and links  
        re: http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ - a July,24 07 conference in China discussing many of the same things


      Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      680 Ft. Washington Ave
      NY NY 10040                      
      tel: 212-795-4844                
      e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
      explorations: www.synapse9.com  
        -----Original Message-----
        From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Mikhail Gorelkin
        Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:34 PM
        To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
        Subject: Re: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


        It's interesting how they will attack the same problems on this workshop http://paris.utdallas.edu/iwsc07/ --Mikhail

          ----- Original Message -----
          From: phil henshaw
          To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
          Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 9:30 AM
          Subject: [FRIAM] SASO conference & things


          The SASO conference last week http://projects.csail.mit.edu/saso2007/program.html was on engineering communication system self-organization and self-adaptation behaviors, and quite remarkable for both the things people are doing and the broad new perspectives that seem to be coming out.    The two I found most telling were that Self-Org, & Self-Adap. behaviors are being looked at now as two distinct things, the one roughly the invention of new organization and the other the integration of those new organizations in a larger context, and the other, that we may have unexpected big problem.  There's lots of creative work being done on the design side, and some cautious poking around at the nature of the unexpected problem.    My contribution to the conference was a lot of good questions about how engineered systems need to fit into and engage with natural systems, and I found the group remarkably receptive, even absent the general lack of any recognized physical science model for natural systems for us to use for the connection (me just speaking from my own w/o discussing it).  I also posted a short paper that hopefully they'll read and be able to understand ( http://www.synapse9.com/PICS.htm )    These guys, like the NetSci-06 group in May were all definitely looking 'outside' the normal engineering box, moving away from 'system' as 'thing in a box' to 'complex system' as 'learning thing in a box'.  

          The appearance of a surprise big problem comes partly from a new understanding of how weak the core science is for how to build these things and then understand what's been built.   There is no theory, just experiments, and for proofs only test sampling, nothing but statistical measures for things, no behavioral ones, so that it seems clear that it'll be very hard to know what behavior is being designed.   This is important because one of the main motives for commercializing these methods is to find new control strategies for the ballooning complexity of the global net that is exceeding the capacities of the engineers to design for in other ways.   One simple example of the problem came up in discussing Peer-to-Peer hosting of the routing tables of the net.   You need some model of trust, and in nature one of the most prevalent forms of failure is the auto-immune reaction where the trust mechanism turns on itself.   That problem, was one of the kinds of things not foreseen in the papers presented, demonstrating both how ready the engineers are to work with the real problems, and how big the real problem really is.  

          The 2nd half of that, that to continue the growth of complexity in the system people are thinking we need to move the world's information control structures to this new paradigm of organization, indicates a growing recognition that any way we're going seeming unlikely to work.  I think they're talking about about the same thing I have for a while.   For a few years I've been describing it as an approaching 'wall of complexity' from a natural systems perspective, a natural product of growth beyond the organizational limits of the growth system, having to do with systemically developing mismatching lag times.   You could also consider it at a 'ceiling of complexity' or just just the proverbial 'hitting the fan' in which something you care about gets chopped to bits and can't be reassembled.    A better physical model is turbulence, perhaps, where the smooth flows of a system explosively disintegrate.   Watching the transition to turbulence in any physical system of flows helps you understand the basic problem.    It's one of these things that is good to see coming....!   ;-)     btw, my patent, still languishing for indecision in reviews at the PTO after 12 years (!!!!), is for a way to extend the domain of smooth flow using a general principle that may be extendable to other things....


          Phil Henshaw                       ????.?? ? `?.????
          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
          680 Ft. Washington Ave
          NY NY 10040                      
          tel: 212-795-4844                
          e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com          
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what about the group dynamics of what people feel afinity for...?

Phil Henshaw-2
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Are even things we sometimes take to define ourselves another
self-organizing collective systems we mostly don't notice the workings
of?  
 

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