Dynamic collectives and their collective dynamics
Antony Galton
In Anthony G. Cohn and David M. Mark (eds.),
Spatial Information Theory: Proceedings of International Conference COSIT 2005,
Springer 2005, pages 300-315.
ISBN 3-540-28964-X
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.
A.P.Galton
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