Socionics: Scalability of Complex Social Systems [Paperback]

Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction.- Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction.- I Multi-layer Modelling.- From Clean Mechanisms to Dirty Models: Methodological Perspectives of an Up-Scaling of Actor Constellations.- Sociological Foundation of the Holonic Approach Using Habitus-Field-Theory to Improve Multiagent Systems.- Linking Micro and Macro Description of Scalable Social Systems Using Reference Nets.- II Concepts for Organization and Self-Organization.- Building Scalable Virtual Communities  Infrastructure Requirements and Computational Costs.- Organization: The Central Concept for Qualitative and Quantitative Scalability.- Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in?MAS Design.- Scalability, Scaling Processes, and the Management of Complexity. A System Theoretical Approach.- III The Emergence of Social Structures.- On the Organisation of Agent Experience: Scaling Up Social Cognition.- Trust and the Economy of Symbolic Goods: A?Contribution to the Scalability of Open Multi-agent Systems.- Coordination in Scaling Actor Constellations.- From Conditional Commitments to Generalized Media: On Means of Coordination Between Self-Governed Entities.- IV From an Agent-Centred to a Communication-Centred Perspective.- Scalability and the Social Dynamics of Communication. On Comparing Social Network Analysis and Communication-Oriented Modelling as Models of Communication Networks.- Multiagent Systems Without Agents  Mirror-Holons for the Compilation and Enactment of Communication Structures.- Communication Systems: A Unified Model of Socially Intelligent Systems.