?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Self-organization+in+Communicating+Groups%3A+the+emergence+of+coordination%2C+shared+references+and+collective+intelligence%0D%0A&rft.creator=Heylighen%2C+Francis&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Pragmatics&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+present+paper+will+sketch+the+basic+ideas+of+the+complexity+paradigm%2C+and+then+apply+them+to+social+systems%2C+and+in+particular+to+groups+of+communicating+individuals+who+together+need+to+agree+about+how+to+tackle+some+problem+or+how+to+coordinate+their+actions.+I+will++elaborate+these+concepts+to+provide+an+integrated+foundation+for+a+theory+of+self-organization%2C+to+be+understood+as+a+non-linear+process+of+spontaneous+coordination+between+actions.+Such+coordination+will+be+shown+to+consist+of+the+following+components%3A+alignment%2C+division+of+labor%2C+workflow+and+aggregation.+I+will+then+review+some+paradigmatic+simulations+and+experiments+that+illustrate+the+alignment+of+references+and+communicative+conventions+between+communicating+agents.+Finally%2C+the+paper+will+summarize+the+preliminary+results+of+a+series+of+experiments+that+I+devised+in+order+to+observe+the+emergence+of+collective+intelligence+within+a+communicating+group%2C+and+interpret+these+observations+in+terms+of+alignment%2C+division+of+labor+and+workflow.&rft.publisher=Barcelona+University+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7265%2F1%2FBarcelona-LanguageSO.pdf&rft.identifier=++Heylighen%2C+Francis++(2011)+Self-organization+in+Communicating+Groups%3A+the+emergence+of+coordination%2C+shared+references+and+collective+intelligence.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F7265%2F