PROCESS (Social Distributing)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2655 ▶ |
| Object type | Human sciences |
The way a wide variety of tasks are allocated or re-allocated in a social system.
Distributing processes have been researched experimentally in ants nests by D.M. GORDON through a variety of perturbating experiments affecting the environment, or the population structure of the ants. (1995, p.50-57)
The general conclusion is that the distributing process is the global result of networking through multiple communication among the ants.
GORDON also observed that global order is more stable in mature colonies than in new ones. Her conclusions are quite probably also valid in human systems, where more or less spontaneous reorganization can frequently be observed when they are violently and suddenly disturbed, as for example in war or massive terrorist attacks, or great natural disasters.