Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from March 2005

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from March 2005

Guest editorial.
March 1, 2005... The date of the 47th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) in Crete in 2003 was coincident, to the very month, with the 25th anniversary of the launching of a major initiative in 'systems education' at Hawkesbury...

An emerging model of a systems agriculturalist.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Agriculture, the management of our natural resources to produce food, fibre, fuel and pharmaceuticals, is a major user of our natural resources and employs a high proportion of our global population. It is not surprising,...

Systemic action research for postgraduate education in agriculture and rural development.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION From an early stage of the development of the Systems Agriculture programmes at Hawkesbury, action research was identified as a valuable methodology for implementing change through a systemic and a learning approach....

The researcher of human systems is both choreographer and chorographer.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2005... HAWKESBURY: THE CONVERSATIONAL MODEL This paper is a reflection on 20 years of collaboration by the authors which had its origins at Hawkesbury. We arrived at the concept of a human system as a network of conversations via a reflection on...

Vortical postmodern ethnography: introducing a complexity approach to systemic social theorizing.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Vortical postmodern ethnography describes an approach to theorizing and engaging in transdisciplinary social research, informed by complexity science. This paper introduces 'vortical postmodern ethnography' as an example of...

Systemic development at Hawkesbury: some personal lessons from experience.(Research Paper)
March 1, 2005... PROLOGUE At the conclusion of the Crete Symposium within the ISSS conference, a delegate, previously unaware of the nature and extent of the Hawkesbury systems initiatives in agriculture, social ecology and rural development, asked me a...

The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2005), 10-13 July 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.(News)
March 1, 2005... Honorary Presidents of Past Conferences: Bela Banathy, Stafford Beer, George Klir, Karl Pribram and Paul Jensen Program Committee Chair: William Lesso General Chair: Nagib Callaos Organizing Committee Chair: Belkis Sanchez ...

The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, East-West Center, Hawaii, 25-27 February 2005.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... This conference aims to develop a holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across the diverse fields and taking varied...

Conference report: the Third National Conference of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS), Castle Ivano, Trento, Northern Italy, 7-9 October 2004.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... The title of the conference was Variety of Complex Systems Behaviours. Emergence of a multiplicity of behaviours in complex systems is a crucial topic in modern science. It relates to many scientific issues like complexity, the role of the...

The First International Congress of the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR): the New Roles of Systems Sciences, 14-17 November 2005, International Conference Centre, Kobe, Japan.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... Sponsor and organizing institutions The international Federation of Systems Research Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) Konan University (Japan) Systems...

The 49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Systems Sciences (ISSS), 1-5 July 2005, Cancun, Mexico.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... The 49th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will take place from 1 through 5 July 2005, providing optional workshops the day before and the day after, and optional archaeological tours once activities are over....

The 6th Systems Science European Congress of the Systems Science European Union (UES), 19-22 September 2005, Paris, France.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... It is intended that, during this 6th Congress of the Systems Science European Union, to be held at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers (ENSAM: 151 Bd de l'Hopital, Paris 75013), most of the themes pertinent to systems science, be...

The Third European Conference on Intelligent Management Systems in Operations, 28-29 June 2005, University of Salford, UK.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... Operations management poses a number of problems of significant complexity whose solutions would lead to more effective operations and bring significant economic benefits. These solutions, however, require novel approaches that are based on...

The 11th Annual ANZSYS Conference, 5-7 December 2005, Christchurch, New Zealand.(NEWS)(Australia and New Zealand Systems Conference )
March 1, 2005... Following the success of ANZSYS conferences in previous years, it is a pleasure to make the first announcement of the 11th Annual ANZSYS Conference. The conference will be held in the city of Christchurch in New Zealand from 5 to 7 December...

The International Symposium on Risk Management and Cyber-Informatics (RMCI '05), 10-13 July 2005, Orlando, Florida, USA.(NEWS)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2005... RMCI '05 (http://www.cyberinformatics.org/ rmci05/), celebrated in the context of the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, will be held in Orlando, Florida, from 10 to 13 July 2005. Risk management has been...

The 6th International Conference of Sociocybernetics, 'Sociocybernetics and Innovation', 6-10 July 2005, Maribor, Slovenia.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... ISA--International Sociological Association Honorary Presidents: Walter Buckley, USA; Felix Geyer, Netherlands Conference Theme Sociocybernetics is about preconditions, ways and consequences of impacts in social entities. Innovation is...

The WOSC 13th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems, 6-10 July 2005, Maribor, Slovenia.(NEWS)
March 1, 2005... WOSC--World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics. President: Robert Vallee; Director-General: Alex Andrew; Vice-President: Brian H. Rudall (also Director of the N. Wiener Institute of WOSC, Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes) SDSR--Slovenian...

Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behaviour.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Understanding Complexity: Thought and Behaviour. By John N. Warfield. Published by AJAR Publishing Company, Palm Harbor, FL, USA, 2002, 268 pp., ISBN 0 9716962 0 9, $40. The publication of a book written by a leading personality in Systems...