@inbook {GershensonALife2018, title = {Self-Organization and Artificial Life: A Review}, booktitle = {The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life: A Hybrid of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL) and the International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (ALIFE)}, year = {2018}, pages = {510{\textendash}517}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, address = {Tokyo, Japan}, abstract = {Self-organization has been an important concept within a number of disciplines, which Artificial Life (ALife) also has heavily utilized since its inception. The term and its implications, however, are often confusing or misinterpreted. In this work, we provide a mini-review of self-organization and its relationship with ALife, aiming at initiating discussions on this important topic with the interested audience. We first articulate some fundamental aspects of self-organization, outline its usage, and review its applications to ALife within its soft, hard, and wet domains. We also provide perspectives for further research.}, doi = {10.1162/isal_a_00094}, url = {https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00094}, author = {Gershenson, Carlos and Trianni, Vito and Werfel, Justin and Sayama, Hiroki}, editor = {Takashi Ikegami and Nathaniel Virgo and Olaf Witkowski and Mizuki Oka and Reiji Suzuki and Hiroyuki Iizuka} } @article {Gershenson2013Previniendo-enf, title = {Previniendo enfermedades cr{\'o}nico-degenerativas con vacunas sociales}, journal = {Cirug{\'{\i}a y Cirujanos}, volume = {81}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, pages = {83-84}, url = {http://tinyurl.com/cdswlx5}, author = {Carlos Gershenson and Thomas Wisdom} } @conference {RodriguezEtAl2007, title = {Smartocracy: Social Networks for Collective Decision Making}, booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS)}, year = {2007}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, organization = {IEEE Computer Society}, abstract = {Smartocracy is a social software system for collec- tive decision making. The system is composed of a social network that links individuals to those they trust to make good decisions and a decision network that links individuals to their voted-on solutions. Such networks allow a variety of algorithms to convert the link choices made by individual participants into specific decision outcomes. Simply interpreting the linkages differently (e.g. ignoring trust links, or using them to weight an individual{\textquoteright}s vote) provides a variety of outcomes fit for different decision making scenarios. This paper will discuss the Smartocracy network data structures, the suite of collective decision making algorithms currently supported, and the results of two collective decisions regarding the design of the system.}, doi = {10.1109/HICSS.2007.484}, url = {http://tinyurl.com/ybojp8}, author = {Rodriguez, Marko A. and Steinbock, Daniel J. and Watkins, Jennifer H. and Gershenson, Carlos and Bollen, Johan and Grey, Victor and deGraf, Brad} } @conference {Gershenson2004b, title = {Updating Schemes in Random {Boolean} Networks: Do They Really Matter?}, booktitle = {Artificial Life {IX} Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems}, year = {2004}, pages = {238{\textendash}243}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {MIT Press}, abstract = {In this paper we try to end the debate concerning the suitability of different updating schemes in random Boolean networks (RBNs). We quantify for the first time loose attractors in asyncrhonous RBNs, which allows us to analyze the complexity reduction related to different updating schemes. We also report that all updating schemes yield very similar critical stability values, meaning that the "edge of chaos" does not depend much on the updating scheme. After discussion, we conclude that synchonous RBNs are justifiable theoretical models of biological networks.}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/nlin.AO/0402006}, author = {Carlos Gershenson}, editor = {J. Pollack and M. Bedau and P. Husbands and T. Ikegami and R. A. Watson} } @conference {GershensonEtAl2000b, title = {Thinking Adaptive: Towards a Behaviours Virtual Laboratory}, booktitle = {{SAB} 2000 Proceedings Supplement}, year = {2000}, publisher = {ISAB press}, organization = {ISAB press}, address = {Paris, France}, abstract = {In this paper we name some of the advantages of virtual laboratories; and propose that a Behaviours Virtual Laboratory should be useful for both biologists and AI researchers, offering a new perspective for understanding adaptive behaviour. We present our development of a Behaviours Virtual Laboratory, which at this stage is focused in action selection, and show some experiments to illustrate the properties of our proposal, which can be accessed via Internet.}, url = {http://uk.arxiv.org/abs/cs/0211028}, author = {C. Gershenson and P. P. Gonz{\'a}lez and J. Negrete}, editor = {Jean-Arcady Meyer and Alain Berthoz and Dario Floreano and Herbert L. Roitblat and Stewart W. Wilson} }