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