Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from May 2005

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from May 2005

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2005... This edition of Systems Research and Behavioral Science truly reflects the interests of the international systems community and sees the use of a variety of systems ideas in a diverse range of application areas. The first paper by Roger...

The role of contestable concepts in transdisciplinary management of water in the landscape ([dagger]).(Research Paper)
May 1, 2005... LANGUAGE AND TRANSDISCIPLINARITY Our Western traditions of inquiry are strongly influenced by identifiable disciplinary areas, each of which can be defined by their core conceptions and assumptions, acknowledged methods for valid...

A transdisciplinary learning approach to foster convergence of design, science and deliberation in urban and regional planning.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2005... 1. INTRODUCTION Urban and regional planners can engage in three different activities to coordinate actions: they can design, they can investigate and they can communicate. These three activities are in practice often intertwined, but one...

Project management methodology for stimulating strategic communication in Japan.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it is to justify that a combination of soft systems methodology (SSM), SWOT analysis and the strategy maps of the balanced scorecard (BSC) provides a suitable methodology for a...

A systems approach to entropy change in political systems.(Research Paper)(systems approach)(usage of Entropy)
May 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Through the mid-20th century, there had been increased attempts to apply systems perspectives to the analysis of various human systems. Indeed, in many research fields, the systems approach had turned out to be the optimal...

Where there is no vision the people perish: ethical vision and community sustainability.(Research Paper)
May 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Considerable debate has been raised regarding the preamble to the proposed European Union constitution, which is supposed to contain uplifting words for Europeans, such as the following: Drawing inspiration from the...

System Profile: 1925 to now.(Notes and Insights)
May 1, 2005... The first question I asked myself in starting to write this article was 'When did you begin your systems career?' It turned out that I could not answer this question. But I could cite some events that were relevant. I suppose you could say...

Cyber law: case studies in the SME environment.(Notes and Insights)(small to medium enterprises)
May 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The UK government has encouraged small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to use the Internet to enhance and expand their business operations. For example, UK SMEs can apply for a 1000 [pounds sterling] grant to set up a...

2005 International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05) and International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'05), Changsha, China, 27-29 August 2005.(News)
May 1, 2005... Home Page http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005 http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/elpwang/nc2005 The ICNC'05-FSKD'05 will feature the most up-to-date research results in computational algorithms inspired from nature, including biological,...

The 5th International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations, Rhodes, Greece, 19-22 July 2005.(News)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Conference website http://www.ManagementConference.com Invitation from the Chairman To be held on the Island of Rhodes, Greece, the conference will include some of the world's leading thinkers in the field of management, as well...

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (Second Edition).(Book Review)
May 1, 2005... International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (Second Edition). Edited by Charles Francois. Published by K. G. Saur, Munich, 2004, 741 pp., ISBN: 3598116306, 348.64 [pounds sterling]. This is the second edition of a well known...