A Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems
Research
Vienna, Austria, April 1996
Chairpersons:
F. Heylighen, Belgium
S. A. Umpleby, USA
Presentations:
"Language and Metaphors of Cyberspace"
G. J. Marshall
"Four Models from Cybernetics to Guide our Understanding of Cyberspace"
S. A. Umpleby
"Electronic Agrarianism: Or Thomas Jefferson Gets a Modem"
K. Howley
"CYBERSTADT: Problems of Growth of Virtual Communities"
M. J. Lipner
"Of Mind, Body and Machine: Cyborg Cultural Politics in the Age of
Hypertext"
J. M. Albright
"The Distortion of the Outside/Inside Antonymy"
A. Cecchi
"Fiction as Artificial Life: Exploring the Ideosphere"
M. A. Taylor
"Meta-Portfolios: Fractal Maps of Cyber-Markets"
M. F. Schreiber
"Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational Form for Cybernetics"
C. Joslyn
"Algorithms for the Self-Organization of Distributed, Multi-User Networks.
Possible Application to the Future World Wide Web"
J. Bollen, F. Heylighen
"The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: From Metaphor to Model"
F. Heylighen, J. Bollen
"Global Brains and Communication in a Complex Adaptive World"
G. Mayer-Kress
"Implementing Gibsonian Virtual Environments"
D. Schmalstieg, M. Gervautz
"A Logic for a Networked Virtual World"
P. Camargo Silva
Group Photo:
Back row:
G. J. Marshall, F. Heylighen, J. M. Albright, D. Schmalstieg, K. Howley
Front row:
J. Bollen, C. Joslyn, M. J. Lipner, M. A. Taylor