Dynamic collectives and their collective dynamics

Authors:
Antony Galton
Affiliations:
SECSM, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
Venue:
COSIT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Spatial Information Theory
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Dynamic collectives are discrete dual-aspect phenomena: they may present themselves from different viewspoints as either objects or events, and they arise from the collective action of groups of individual elements. In this paper we outline a formal theory of dynamic collectives and discuss their relevance to a range of GIScience concerns, including the identities and lifestyles of geographical entities, the architecture of information systems, and the relation between information systems and modelling systems.