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New page: Kevin Kelly has written an interesting post about the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control. He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up contributions and top-down con...

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Kevin Kelly has written an interesting post about
the balance of bottom-up processes and top-down control.
He emphasizes a balanced combination of bottom-up
contributions and top-down control, and this is in fact
what you need to engineer self-organizing systems.

The engineering of self-organizing systems is a
contradiction in itself: how can you organize something
which organizes itself? If we want to build a
self-organizing system with autonomous agents, then
how can we ensure the function ? Agents do by defintion
what they want. How can you construct a self-organizing
system?

The answer is: in a balanced, iterative process which
combines top-down analysis with bottom-up simulation,
where we step by step define the 'rules of the game'.
The bottom-up process is needed ensure diversity
(innovative, random, surprising elements). The
top-down process ensure unity (e.g. function, quality
and goal-orientation). Together they form a cyclic
round-trip process, which can be named synthetic
microanalysis. This is nothing else but the
scientific method applied to engineering.

== Links ==

* Kevin Kelly, [http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/02/the_bottom_is_n.php The Bottom is Not Enough]

* [http://zyxo.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/swarm-intelligence-and-hierarchies/ Swarm intelligence and hierarchies]

* [http://cognections.typepad.com/lifeblog/2008/03/on-the-balance.html On the balance of top-down and bottom-up]