Towards a Polycentric World Order

Towards a Moneyless World?

The New Monetary Economics (NME) predicts that a low-transaction-cost world will be characterised by monetary separation. Different assets will compete as stores of value and medium of exchange. Current innovations in the payment system are often interpreted as bringing us closer to such a moneyless world. In this paper, it is argued that monetary separation is inefficient, even in a low-transa...

Towards a new world-ontology

A crucial problem of knowledge representation is that it has to be formal and informal at the same time. Here, ‘formal’ refers to knowledge as a mathematical concept which is thought, and ‘informal’ to knowledge as something which is experienced, i.e. a ‘real’ world phenomenon. This paper is an attempt to reconcile these potentially contradictory conditions. Our aim is to show that a cognitivel...

Towards A Semantic World: Smart Objects In A Virtual World

The coming Internet of Things will usher in a semantic world (analogous to the semantic web) where physical objects will be networked so that they can communicate with each other and with humans. This paper identifies protocols that smart objects will need to follow and how to use today’s 3D virtual worlds to better simulate and better understand protocols for tomorrow’s smart world.

How polycentric are our cities ?

Today’s large metropolitan areas, from New York and London to Singapore and Tokyo, all comprise a multitude of interconnected centers: places, where our daily activities for employment, leisure and travel are highly concentrated. A deep and quantitative understanding of this urban spatial structure is of considerable importance for our contemporary sprawling cities, where it is ever-less obviou...

Explanation of Theoretical Basics of Analysis of the World Order