Coincidence in Information Systems
Published March 1, 2018 | Version 1.0
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Complexity beyond pure reason? Emergence through the lens of coincidence

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  • 1. Victoria University of Wellington

Description

In this talk I will introduce Transcendental Information Cascades, a method to understand the temporal dynamics of naturally occurring complex systems. The distinctive feature of the approach is that it relies on a specific kind of spatio-temporal network that represents information token recurrence and coincidence. Transcendental Information Cascades make formerly hidden dimensions of sequential data accessible and throw up novel questions about chaos and randomness. I will present various applications of the method in different domains such as the analysis of digital traces in online communities, English literature, and micro-linguistics.

Background:

Luczak-Roesch, M., Tinati, R., Van Kleek, M. and Shadbolt, N., 2015, August. From coincidence to purposeful flow? properties of transcendental information cascades. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining 2015 (pp. 633-638). ACM.

Luczak-Roesch, M., Matters of coincidence or the collective digital unconscious?. https://sciblogs.co.nz/infrequently-asked-questions/2017/08/18/social-networks-coincidence-collective-unconscious/

Notes

These are the slides of an invited talk at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (Switzerland, date of the talk 02-03-2018, https://memento.epfl.ch/event/complexity-beyond-pure-reason-emergence-through--2/).

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