Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2002

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2002

Editorial.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 1, 2002... We are pleased to be able to dedicate this issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science to a celebration of the work of Gerard de Zeeuw. Gerard has been active in the field of systems and cybernetics research for many years and his...

Introduction.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... This issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science is dedicated to a celebration of the work of Gerard de Zeeuw. For readers of this journal, de Zeeuw should be not only familiar (he currently is associate editor), but he should also be...

Gerard de Zeeuw: models, systems, support and research. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION In 2001 Gerard de Zeeuw turned 65--after working for 37 years at the University of Amsterdam, 27 of them as full professor. In the Netherlands this means he has reached the age of mandatory retirement. As he himself asserts,...

Doing the right thing: the problems of ... Gerard de Zeeuw, academic guerilla. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEMS OF CONFERENCES AND DE ZEEUW'S OEUVRE Twenty-three years ago, in 1979, Gerard de Zeeuw created what has become a series of conferences, based around the concept and name `Problems of....' These conferences have...

Improvement of co-ordination: re-scripting research for multi-agent environments. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... Keywords co-ordination; multi-agent context; narrative break-off; research on research; script SIMPLICITY OF A RESEARCHER Interacting with Professor Gerard de Zeeuw has been a transformational experience for the author. Yet this was...

Flowing. (Research Paper).(Festschrift Gerard de Zeeuw)
March 1, 2002... A claim has the desired quality if in the construction process attention has been devoted to the construction progressing in such a way that using the claim serves to improve the quality. (Gerard de Zeeuw, 1980) (1) The man sighed. He had...

The communication turn in the theory of social systems. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Perhaps more than any other science, sociology can be considered as a science in crisis (Gouldner, 1970). Shortly after the Second World War, Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz--two of the leading sociologists of that...

Ambition and ambivalence, or: is there any system in andragology? (Research Paper).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Andragology is both a fascinating and a hazardous science. It is about researching and supporting `andragogical' practices, or improving the conditions of the life of adolescents and adults, arranging learning environments and educational...

Creative distortions and social improvements. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... A MOMENT OF RECOGNITION During the summer of the year 2000, a Dutch newspaper featured a story about Qineboko, `the first virtual advertising agency in the Netherlands' (Van Gelder, 2000). The existence of this agency happens to be real;...

Pointing towards some superior metaphysics, ontology and epistemology (1). (Research Paper).(philosophy of scientific research)
March 1, 2002... Keywords metaphysics; ontology; epistemology; research; observation 1. INTRODUCTION The first time I came across Gerard de Zeeuw's ideas about scientific research was in 1995 when I registered for a PhD in process and knowledge...

Gerard de Zeeuw and architectural research. (Research Paper).
March 1, 2002... 1. INTRODUCTION: DELFT In the beginning of 1996 Professor Ranulph Glanville was working on the preparation of an EU application for the funding of a European Research Network. Between 1 and 4 March 1996 a brainstorming weekend was...

An artist visualizing Gerard de Zeeuw. (Personal Memo).
March 1, 2002... The problem of art was, that it was a thing. It took centuries before art could become a sign and a function. Communication isn't about things but about meanings. (Ulises Carrion, TV Tonight) I did not come to Gerard de Zeeuw's work through...

The idea within: a story of scholarly blossoming in the Amsterdam spring. (Research Paper).(research on altruism and communism)
March 1, 2002... Written in honor of Professor Gerard de Zeeuw In the beginning the world was a very different place. Twenty-five years ago, I responded to the invitation to read a paper at the first `Problems of...' Conference in Amsterdam and began my...

Laudatio for prof. Dr. Gerard de Zeeuw on the occasion of his mandatory retirement (a). (Laudatio).
March 1, 2002... I did not stand up to say fare-thee-well to Gerard de Zeeuw. I stood up to praise him. And since he would not have me do it for too long, I shall tell a story about an age-long quest in which, in my mind, he participates. Gerard is for me many...

Publications.(Gerard de Zeeuw)(Bibliography)
March 1, 2002... (This selection has been compiled and checked by Martha Vahl. It only covers the main body of material produced by Gerard de Zeeuw; there are many internal memos, contributions of various kinds in various media excluded from this list. A fuller...

The Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2002 ISSS), 2-6 August 2002, Shanghai International Convention Centre, Shanghai, PR China (Third Announcement). (News).
March 1, 2002... Hosts International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) The Chinese Society for Systems Science (CSSS) Co-hosts International Federation for Systems Research Systems Engineering Society of China Chinese Society for Soft...