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Postext – A Mind for Society

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Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II (AAMAS 2004, AAMAS 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 3394))

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We present Postext (pronounced POS-TEH) – a platform for collective thinking. This generic system was originally created in order to assist the community of complexity research to self-organize (the system is operative and can be found at http://complexity.huji.ac.il). In this paper we describe the basic philosophical ideas that promoted its creation, and the circumstances of its specific application to the complexity community.

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  1. Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Avishalom Shalit & Sorin Solomon

  2. Multi-Agent Division, ISI, Torino, Italy

    Tom Erez & Sorin Solomon

  3. English Dept., Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, USA

    Anna Deters

  4. Immunology Dept., Yale Medical School, New Haven, CT, USA

    Uri Hershberg

  5. Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Eran Shir

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK

    Daniel Kudenko

  2. Artificial Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York, UK

    Dimitar Kazakov

  3. Department of Computing, City University, P.O. Box, EC1V 0HB, London, United Kingdom

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Shalit, A., Erez, T., Deters, A., Hershberg, U., Shir, E., Solomon, S. (2005). Postext – A Mind for Society. In: Kudenko, D., Kazakov, D., Alonso, E. (eds) Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems II. AAMAS AAMAS 2004 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32274-0_2

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