Stability and complexity in digital ecosystems – best paper at IEEE DEST 2009
Wednesday 8 July 2009
A paper recently presented in June at the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2009) has won the prestigious best paper award. The paper by Professor Paul Krause, Dr Amir Razavi, Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis and Alexandros Marinos was judged the best from both its peer review and from its oral presentation. This was one of six papers presented by the group.
Krause, P., Razavi, A., Moschoyiannis, S. & Marinos, A. (2009). Stability and Complexity in Digital Ecosystems. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE-DEST 2009), Istanbul, Turkey.
In this paper we explore the concept of “ecosystem” as a metaphor in the development of the digital economy. We argue that the modelling of social ecosystems as self-organising systems is also relevant to the study of digital ecosystems. Specifically, that centralised control structures in digital ecosystems militate against emergence of innovation and adaptive response to pressures or shocks that may impact the ecosystem. We hope the paper will stimulate a more holistic approach to gaining empirical and theoretical understanding of digital ecosystems.