Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from July 2007

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from July 2007

Complexity and systems studies: voices from China ([dagger]).(Guest Editorial)
July 1, 2007... This special edition of Systems Research and Behavioural Science concentrates on contemporary complexity and systems studies in China. This is a challenging task because both the subject matter (complexity and systems studies) and the context...

Contemporary systems and complexity studies in China: review and prospect.(Research Paper)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Studies of systems science and complexity have a long history in China. Even before Weaver published his paper (Weaver, 1948) on complexity, some scholars had made sociological analysis of Chinese families from a complexity...

Understanding complexity, challenging traditional ways of thinking.(Research Paper)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION The study of complexity is a hot topic in the domain of science and philosophy. One of the most important problems in the philosophy of science is the problem of the way of thinking. We need a new reason exceeding the...

A new approach to studying complex systems.(Research Paper)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION In recent years a number of different theories, methods, approaches and schools have appeared in the studies of complex systems and complexity, which makes this field fruitful and prosperous. The chief purpose of the studies...

Towards complex holism.(Research Paper)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION The issue of holism and reductionism is not only an ancient thesis under endless debate in science and philosophy, but also a central question that modem complexity sciences try to answer. Since the dawn of modem science, the...

Exploring dynamics of emergence.(Research Paper)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION 'Emergence' has become one of the central concept in the studies of complexity sciences. The workshop of Santa Fe Institute (SFI) points out that 'complexity is the science about emergence substantially. The challenge that we...

Complexity science, systems thinking and pragmatic sensibility.(Research Article)(Report)
July 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Achievements in natural complexity sciences are enthusiastically transferred into explanations of organisation change and management. While it is widely held that this endeavour has great potential to enhance our understanding...

International Conference of Sociocybernetics: Technology and Social Complexity, Murcia, Spain, 18-23 June 2007.(NEWS)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... Conference Theme Technology and Social Complexity Technical objects (basically, instrumental machines) are crucial in everyday life. Systematic reflection about object-producing devices relates technology not only to the context of the...

The VI International Conference on Decision Support for Telecommunications and Information Society, Warsaw, Poland, July 18-20 2007.(NEWS)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... Conference Objectives The conference is devoted to issues of decision support in applications to telecommunications and computer networks, generally for information society. This will be the sixth conference on this subject of growing...

2007 International Symposium on Information Systems 2007 ISM): Management Track of WiCOM2007, Shanghai, China, July 25-28 2007.(NEWS)
July 1, 2007... Hosts Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. Wuhan University, China. AIS SIG-ISAP Association, USA. Sponsors IEEE Communications Society. IEEE Engineering Management Society (EMS). National Science Foundation, China. ...

The 8th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS2007) jointly with the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS2007), Ishikawa High-Tech Exchange Center, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, November 5-7 2007.(NEWS)
July 1, 2007... Aims The KSS Symposium is an annual conference of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences (ISKSS). Knowledge science and systems science can be used for one another as methodology and tool and benefit each other....