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Concurrency and the Logic of Economic Organization

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Simulating Social Phenomena

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems ((LNE,volume 456))

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We describe organisations as constraint based, adaptive collections of processes and assume the notion of (constrained) interaction as basic. Concurrency theory is proposed as a purely process-theoretic theory of abstract organisations and π-calculus is introduced as a calculus of processes configurations and mobility.

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  1. Dept. of Economics, University of Trento, Italy

    Luigi Marengo

  2. Dept. of Philosophy, University of Genova, Italy

    Corrado Pasquali

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  1. Luigi Marengo
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  1. Institute of Psychology, CNR, V.le Marx 15, I-00137, Rome, Italy

    Rosaria Conte

  2. Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 3, D-95445, Bayreuth, Germany

    Rainer Hegselmann

  3. Department of Economics, University of Turin, C.so Unione Sovietica 218bis, I-10134, Turin, Italy

    Pietro Terna

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Marengo, L., Pasquali, C. (1997). Concurrency and the Logic of Economic Organization. In: Conte, R., Hegselmann, R., Terna, P. (eds) Simulating Social Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 456. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03366-1_26

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