Self-organising social processes of task allocation

In literature self-organising social behaviour is often described by means of a brain metaphor. These descriptions either discuss some general principles or propose a systemstheoretical analysis, but have not been related to existing psychological theory. In this paper we propose a way of describing self-organising social processes of task allocation by using principles derived from a neural-network model and from theories of cognitiveand social psychology.

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