Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 1998

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 1998

Thermodynamics, information and life revisited, part 1: 'to be or entrophy'.
July 1, 1998... Keywords evolution; information; thermodynamics; entropy; negentropy; cybernetics; synergy When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less. Humpty Dumpty (Lewis Carroll), Through the Looking...

Socio-technical functioning and anthropogenic crises.
July 1, 1998... Keywords cognitive evolution; consciousness; antagonistic contradictions; progress and retrogression; principles of politics INTRODUCTION A sense of disorientation and fear is a natural accompaniment of increasingly rapid social...

An applied social systems procedure for generating purposive sound futures.
July 1, 1998... Keywords social systems; Imen-Delphi (ID); change; emergence; group interaction; agreement INTRODUCTION The Delphi technique was originally designed as a procedure to solicit and synthesize the forecasts of groups of experts, and was to...

On some aspects of cognitive graphics application for systems thinking and systems practice.
July 1, 1998... Keywords systems research; systems thinking; systems practice, systems management; visual information model; cognitive graphics; information compression INTRODUCTION In order to determine a system (S) as a set of elements (A) and...

The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution.
July 1, 1998... The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. By Paul Levinson. Published by Routledge, 1997, 13.59 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 415 15785 4 (hardback) A recent report in The New York Times on the state of the book...

Strategic Management and Information Systems: An integrated Approach, 2nd edition.
July 1, 1998... Strategic Management and Information Systems: An integrated approach, 2nd edition. By Wendy Robson. Published by Pitman Publishing, London, 1997, 575pp., 21.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0273 61591 2 (paper) This book is about effective management...

Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach, 2nd edition.
July 1, 1998... Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach, 2nd edition. By John Friend and Allen Hickling. Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 1997, 372 pp., 16.99 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 7506 2955 X (paper) The book under review offers...

Erratum. ('A systematic integration model to support complex decision-making in a dynamic environment,' by Zigi Liao in vol. 15, no. 1, pages 33-45)
July 1, 1998... Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 33-45, 1998. In the paper entitled `A Systematic Integration Model to Support Complex Decision-Making in a Dynamic Environment' by Ziqi Liao there were printing errors. The running head should read RESEARCH PAPER. The...