Models and Concepts for Socio-Technical Complex Systems: Towards Fractal Social Organizations.
We introduce fractal social organizations-a novel class of socio-technical complex systems characterized by a distributed, bio-inspired, hierarchical architecture. Based on a same building block that is recursively applied at different layers, said systems provide a homogeneous way to model collecti...
| Published in: | Systems Research & Behavioral Science Vol. 30; no. 6; pp. 750 - 773 |
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