Deals with the exploration of the emergence and dynamics of artificial social systems, agent societies, and hybrid man-machine societies. This book aims to develop computer technologies by picking up theoretical concepts and methods from sociology and improve sociological models of societies and organizations by using computer technology.

Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction.- Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction.- I Multi-layer Modelling.- From “Clean” Mechanisms to “Dirty” Models: Methodological Perspectives of an Up-Scaling of Actor Constellations.- Sociological Foundation of the Holonic Approach Using Habitus-Field-Theory to Improve Multiagent Systems.- Linking Micro and Macro Description of Scalable Social Systems Using Reference Nets.- II Concepts for Organization and Self-Organization.- Building Scalable Virtual Communities — Infrastructure Requirements and Computational Costs.- Organization: The Central Concept for Qualitative and Quantitative Scalability.- Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in MAS Design.- Scalability, Scaling Processes, and the Management of Complexity. A System Theoretical Approach.- III The Emergence of Social Structures.- On the Organisation of Agent Experience: Scaling Up Social Cognition.- Trust and the Economy of Symbolic Goods: A Contribution to the Scalability of Open Multi-agent Systems.- Coordination in Scaling Actor Constellations.- From Conditional Commitments to Generalized Media: On Means of Coordination Between Self-Governed Entities.- IV From an Agent-Centred to a Communication-Centred Perspective.- Scalability and the Social Dynamics of Communication. On Comparing Social Network Analysis and Communication-Oriented Modelling as Models of Communication Networks.- Multiagent Systems Without Agents — Mirror-Holons for the Compilation and Enactment of Communication Structures.- Communication Systems: A Unified Model of Socially Intelligent Systems.