WEDNESDAY, April 10, a.m., Room 46

SYMPOSIUM L:
Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace

Chairpersons: F.Heylighen, Belgium, and S.A.Umpleby, USA

11.00-11.30: Meta-Portfolios: Fractal Maps of Cyber-Markets
M.F.Schreiber, University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria
11.30-12.00: Semantic Webs: A Cyberspatial Representational Form for Cybernetics
C.Joslyn, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
12.00-12.30: Algorithms for the Self-Organization of Distributed, Multi-User Networks. Possible Application to the Future World Wide Web
J.Bollen, F.Heylighen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
12.30-13.00: The World-Wide Web as a Super-Brain: From Metaphor to Model
F.Heylighen, J.Bollen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium