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Dynamic Collectives and Their Collective Dynamics

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Dynamic collectives are discrete dual-aspect phenomena: they may present themselves from different viewspoints as either objects or events, and they arise from the collective action of groups of individual elements. In this paper we outline a formal theory of dynamic collectives and discuss their relevance to a range of GIScience concerns, including the identities and lifestyles of geographical entities, the architecture of information systems, and the relation between information systems and modelling systems.

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  • Convex Hull
  • Causal Interaction
  • Dynamic Collective
  • Composite Object
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  1. SECSM, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK

    Antony Galton

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  1. School of Computing, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Anthony G. Cohn

  2. Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 105 Wilkeson Quad, 14261, Buffalo, NY, USA

    David M. Mark

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Galton, A. (2005). Dynamic Collectives and Their Collective Dynamics. In: Cohn, A.G., Mark, D.M. (eds) Spatial Information Theory. COSIT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11556114_19

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