Francis Heylighen

According to our database, Francis Heylighen authored at least 27 papers between 1991 and 2024.

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2024

Chemical Organization Theory as a General Modeling Framework for Self-Sustaining Systems.

Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi, Tomas Veloz

Syst., 2024

2023

Modeling autopoiesis and cognition with reaction networks.

Francis Heylighen, Evo Busseniers

Biosyst., August, 2023

Complexity and Evolution.

Tomas Veloz, Francis Heylighen, Olaf Witkowski

Entropy, February, 2023

2022

Towards an Analytic Framework for System Resilience Based on Reaction Networks.

Tomas Veloz, Pedro Maldonado, Evo Busseniers, Alejandro Bassi, Shima Beigi, Marta Lenartowicz, Francis Heylighen

Complex., 2022

The role of self-maintaining resilient reaction networks in the origin and evolution of life.

Francis Heylighen, Shima Beigi, Evo Busseniers

Biosyst., 2022

2021

Goal Directedness, Chemical Organizations, and Cybernetic Mechanisms.

Evo Busseniers, Tomas Veloz, Francis Heylighen

Entropy, 2021

Noospheric consciousness: integrating neural models of consciousness and of the web.

Shima Beigi, Francis Heylighen

Proceedings of the WebSci '21: 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, 2021

Collective Consciousness Supported by the Web: Healthy or Toxic?

Shima Beigi, Francis Heylighen

Proceedings of the Computational Collective Intelligence - 13th International Conference, 2021

2018

The Human Takeover: A Call for a Venture into an Existential Opportunity.

Marta Lenartowicz, David R. Weinbaum, Francis Heylighen, Kate Kingsbury, Tjorven Harmsen

Inf., 2018

2016

Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism II: Varieties and evolution.

Francis Heylighen

Cogn. Syst. Res., 2016

Stigmergy as a universal coordination mechanism I: Definition and components.

Francis Heylighen

Cogn. Syst. Res., 2016

2013

From Human Computation to the Global Brain: The Self-Organization of Distributed Intelligence.

Francis Heylighen

Proceedings of the Handbook of Human Computation, 2013

2009

Evolution of Culture, Memetics.

Francis Heylighen, Klaas Chielens

Proceedings of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, 2009

2007

Accelerating Socio-Technological Evolution: from ephemeralization and stigmergy to the global brain

Francis Heylighen

CoRR, 2007

Distributed (design) knowledge exchange.

Ann Heylighen, Francis Heylighen, Johan Bollen, Mathias Casaer

AI Soc., 2007

2006

Why is Open Access Development so Successful? Stigmergic organization and the economics of information

Francis Heylighen

CoRR, 2006

Complexity and Philosophy

Francis Heylighen, Paul Cilliers, Carlos Gershenson

CoRR, 2006

2004

Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence

Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen

CoRR, 2004

2003

Neurons, Viscose Fluids, Freshwater Polyp Hydra-and Self-Organizing Information Systems.

Steffen Staab, Francis Heylighen, Carlos Gershenson, Gary William Flake, David M. Pennock, Daniel C. Fain, David De Roure, Karl Aberer, Wei-Min Shen, Olivier Dousse, Patrick Thiran

IEEE Intell. Syst., 2003

When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing?

Carlos Gershenson, Francis Heylighen

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 7th European Conference, 2003

2002

Hebbian Algorithms for a Digital Library Recommendation System.

Francis Heylighen, Johan Bollen

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP 2002 Workshops), 2002

2000

Complexity and evolution, by Max Pettersson, The major transitions in evolution, by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry, The origins of life from the birth of life to the origin of language, by John Maynard Smith and Eörs Szathmáry.

Francis Heylighen

Complex., 2000

1999

Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: Algorithms to Develop a Collective Mental Map.

Francis Heylighen

Comput. Math. Organ. Theory, 1999

1998

A system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models.

Johan Bollen, Francis Heylighen

New Rev. Hypermedia Multim., 1998

1997

Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey.

Francis Heylighen

Complex., 1997

1993

Electronic Networking for Philosophical Development in the Principia Cybernetica Project.

Francis Heylighen, Cliff A. Joslyn

Informatica (Slovenia), 1993

1991

Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between Associative and Formal Representations.

Francis Heylighen

Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1991