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  1. Modeling autopoiesis and cognition with reaction networks

    Article • Biosystems, August 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  2. Complexity and Evolution

    Article • Entropy, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  3. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  4. Noospheric consciousness

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  5. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  6. Mind Outside Brain

    Article • September 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  7. Philosophy and complexity

    Article • November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  8. Evolution of Culture, Memetics

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  9. Cybernetic Principles of Aging and Rejuvenation: The Buffering- Challenging Strategy for Life Extension

    Article • Current Aging Science, July 2014, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  10. Evolutionary Psychology

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  11. From Human Computation to the Global Brain: The Self-Organization of Distributed Intelligence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  12. Self-organization in Communicating Groups: The Emergence of Coordination, Shared References and Collective Intelligence

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  13. Protocol Requirements for Self-organizing Artifacts: Towards an Ambient Intelligence

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Gershenson, Professor Francis Heylighen

  14. Symmetry, Potentiality and Reversibility

    Article • Foundations of Science, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  15. The Self-Organization of Time and Causality: Steps Towards Understanding the Ultimate Origin

    Article • Foundations of Science, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  16. Evolution of Culture, Memetics

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  17. Getting Things Done: The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity

    Article • Long Range Planning, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  18. Distributed (design) knowledge exchange

    Article • AI & Society, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  19. Talking nets: A multiagent connectionist approach to communication and trust between individuals.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  20. Neurons, viscose fluids, freshwater polyp hydra-and self-organizing information systems

    Article • IEEE Intelligent Systems, July 2003, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  21. When Can We Call a System Self-Organizing?

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Carlos Gershenson, Professor Francis Heylighen

  22. Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics

    Article • January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  23. Article • Foundations of Science, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  24. Bootstrapping knowledge representations

    Article • Kybernetes, July 2001, Emerald

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  25. Global Progress II: Evolutionary Mechanisms and their Side-effects

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  26. Global Progress I: Empirical Evidence for ongoing Increase in Quality-of-life

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  27. Article • Foundations of Science, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  28. Article • Foundations of Science, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  29. Article • Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  30. A system to restructure hypertext networks into valid user models

    Article • New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, January 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  31. Publications on complex, evolving systems: A citation-based survey

    Article • Complexity, May 1997, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  32. (Meta)systems as constraints on variation— a classification and natural history of metasystem transitions

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  33. Selection of organization at the social level: Obstacles and facilitators of metasystem transitions

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  34. Towards a theory of Metasystem transitions: Introduction to the special issue

    Article • World Futures, December 1995, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  35. Relating covariation information to causal dimensions through principles of contrast and invariance

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, July 1995, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  36. Preattributional and attributional determinants of emotions and expectations

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, July 1992, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  37. POLEMICS IN SYSTEMS RESEARCH

    Article • International Journal of General Systems, June 1992, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  38. A cognitive-systemic reconstruction of maslow's theory of self-actualization

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, January 1992, Wiley

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  39. Non-Rational Cognitive Processes as Changes of Distinctions

    Article • January 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  40. Design of a hypermedia interface translating between associative and formal representations

    Article • International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, October 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  41. Modelling emergence

    Article • World Futures, September 1991, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  42. A STRUCTURAL LANGUAGE FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS

    Article • International Journal of General Systems, December 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  43. CLASSICAL AND NONCLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS IN PHYSICS II: QUANTUM MECHANICS

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, September 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  44. Communications

    Article • Kybernetes, May 1989, Emerald

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  45. CAUSALITY AS DISTINCTION CONSERVATION. A THEORY OF PREDICTABILITY, REVERSIBILITY, AND TIME ORDER

    Article • Cybernetics & Systems, January 1989, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  46. Tachyons imply the existence of a priviledged frame

    Article • Lettere al Nuovo Cimento, December 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  47. Hebbian algorithms for a digital library recommendation system

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Francis Heylighen

  48. 6. Mobilization Systems: Technologies for Motivating and Coordinating Human Action Francis Heylighen, Iavor Kostov, & Mixel Kiemen 115

    Article • Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers

    Professor Francis Heylighen