Publicaciones en Ciencias y Tecnolog´ ıa Vol 7, N 0 1, Ene–Jun 2013, pp.51–72, ISSN:1856-8890, Dep´ osito Legal: pp200702LA2730 SELF-ORGANIZATION AND EMERGENCE PHENOMENA IN WIKIPEDIA AND FREE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT USING MASOES * Niriaska Perozo † Jos´ e Aguilar ‡ OswaldoTer´an § Heidy Molina Recibido: 05/03/2013 Aprobado: 16/06/2013 Abstract This work models Wikipedia and Free Software Development through a mul- tiagent architecture for self-organizing and emergent systems called MASOES without mathematically representing the system. In that sense, each component, mechanism and process of MASOES is instanced at individual and collective levels by the observed phenomena at the modeled systems. Thus, this paper proposes a methodology to show how to model real systems using MASOES, in order to study their self-organizing and emergent properties and, later on, to facilitate the verification of these properties, mechanisms, components and social interactions for promoting collaborative work and sharing individual and collective knowledge in these systems. Keywords: Multiagent systems, Self-Organization, Emergent Systems, Wikipedia, Free Software Development. * Unidad de Inteligencia Artificial, Decanato de Ciencias y Tecnolog´ ıa, Universidad Cen- troccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Barquisiimeto, Venezuela, nperozo@ucla.edu.ve † CEMISID, Facultad de Ingenier´ ıa, Universidad de los Andes, M´ erida, Venezuela, aguilar@ula.ve ‡ CESIMO, CEMISID, Facultad de Ingenier´ ıa, Universidad de los Andes, M´ erida, Venezuela, oteran@ula.ve § CEMISID, Facultad de Ingenier´ ıa, Universidad de los Andes, M´ erida, Venezuela, heidym@ula.ve 51