La descentralización estructural y la heterogeneidad funcional en la producción colectiva de conocimiento: una justificación teórica y computacional del paradigma P2P

Esta tesis contiene artículos de investigación en anexo.Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Documentación: Archivos y Bibliotecas en el Entorno DigitalPresidente: Elías Sanz Casado.- Secretario: Rosario Arquero Avilés.- Vocal: Remedios Melero Meler

Information literacy and peer-to-peer infrastructures: An autopoietic perspective

This article argues that an autopoietic perspective of human communities would allow to understand societies as self-organized systems and thus promote information literacy as a facilitator of social development. Peer-to-peer (P2P) social dynamics generate public information available worldwide in digital repositories, websites and bibliographic resources. However, processing such amount of data is not achievable by a single central-controlled system. We claim that distributed and heterogeneous networks of coordinated mechanisms, composed by both specialized human and artificial agents, are needed to improve information retrieval, knowledge inference and decision-making, but also to produce social value, goods and services. Handling these issues implies the collective construction of global semantic networks but also the active labor of knowledge producers and consumers. We conclude that information literacy is as much important as any technical implementation and, therefore, may lead to networks of Commons-oriented communities which would utilize P2P infrastructuresVasilis Kostakis acknowledges funding for facilities used in this research by IUT (19-13) of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Researc

P2P Societies: The impact of Decentralization and Heterogeneity in Complex Systems

Poster presented at the 16th WOSC Congress: Our Self-organising World: from Disruption to Reparation which took place in 2014, 15-17 October, in Ibagué (COLOMBIA). The Web Site of the event: http://wosc-congress.unibague.edu.co