Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2004

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2004

Editorial.
March 1, 2004... The first research paper in this issue is an extremely interesting contribution from Dubrovsky. He introduces some little known historical work on systems, uses part of the Soviet tradition of systems thinking, and argues for a novel...

Toward system principles: general system theory and the alternative approach.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Half a century ago, Ludwig von Bertalanffy formulated a new discipline, General System Theory, and defined its subject matter as 'formulation and derivation of those principles which are valid for "systems" in general'...

Linguistic adjustments: precursors to understanding complexity.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION History tells us that more than 200 years ago a young law school graduate decided not to make a career in law, but rather to make his career in chemistry. Antoine Lavoisier, faced with a language of chemistry that lacked...

Intelligence and living systems: a decision-making perspective.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION The common meaning of intelligence is the ability to learn or understand from experience. Kalaidjieva (1995, 1999) identifies seven levels of intelligence arising from the experience of human organisms. The levels form a...

A dispersed ethnic group as a living system: Soviet Jewry in the 1970s.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2004... INTRODUCTION Any dispersed group, be it a religious sect, a political party, or an ethnic group, is a difficult subject for study. However, precisely because it is a dismembered body, such a group may provide its researcher with some...

The Imen-Delphi procedure in practice.(Notes and Insights)
March 1, 2004... OBJECTIVE After a decade of using the Imen-Delphi (ID) procedure, the objective of this research note is to evaluate its potential for social futures thinking. The paper (a) highlights the changes the ID procedure took that emerged in the...

The 2nd International Conference on Politics and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (PISTA '04), 21-25 July 2004, Orlando, Florida, USA.(News)
March 1, 2004... Organization General Chair: Prof. Jose Vicente Carrasquero Organizing Committee Chair: Prof. Angel Oropeza Organized by the IIIS: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics Conference areas: * Informatics And...

The Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 20-23 July 2004, Monash University Centre, Prato (near Florence), Tuscany, Italy.(News)
March 1, 2004... Conference theme: Future, Humanities The conference this year is being hosted by the Monash University Centre in Prato and the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, in association with the Globalism Institute at RMIT,...

The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory. By Debora Hammond. Published by University Press of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 2003, 312pp., ISBN 0 87081 722 1, 40 [pounds sterling]. In 2004 the...

Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Human Kind.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Human Kind. By Peter Corning. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003, 464pp., ISBN 0 521 82547 4, 19.95 [pounds sterling] (hardback). Wow! That was the word I sent Peter Corning on...

Asesores en sistemas y desarrollo: Los nuevos humanistas? (Advisors in Systems Thinking and Development: the New Humanists?).(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Asesores en sistemas y desarrollo: Los nuevos humanistas? (Advisors in Systems Thinking and Development: The New Humanists?). By Gustavo Gonzalez Couture. Published by Ediciones Uniandes, Bogota, Colombia, 2003, 358pp., ISBN 958 695 086 7,...