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This paper introduces the notion of self-organization and show its relevance to the study of the built environment, cognitive maps and information systems. The relevance of self-organization to all three is direct: Self-organization, that is to say, the phenomena by which a system self-organizes its internal structure independent of external causes, is a fundamental property of open and complex systems. Some of the typical examples for such systems are the topics which form the center of interest of COSIT: the brain and its cognitive activities, the city as an artificial environment, language, and more recently information networks — in particular the Internet.
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Portugali, J. (1997). Self-organization, cities, cognitive maps and information systems. In: Hirtle, S.C., Frank, A.U. (eds) Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. COSIT 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1329. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63623-4_59
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