Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2001

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2001

ISSS Yearbook 2000.
September 1, 2001... This special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science is a collection of papers drawn from the large number of papers presented at the World Congress of the Systems Sciences. This meeting was co-hosted by more than 20...

Learning, Design, and Action: Creating the Conditions for Evolutionary Learning Community.
September 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION The idea and ideal of Evolutionary Learning Community (ELC) emerged from the work of a research team (Group D) of the International Systems Institute (ISI). Within the general context of social systems design, which is the...

Laws of Geometric Systems.
September 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION For Fuller, Universe was all that humanity perceives. As Universe is perceived, distinctions appear. Each distinction defines a system, the first division of Universe. Since the system is distinct from Universe, it must divide...

Natural Philosophy and Developmental Systems.
September 1, 2001... NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Currently we have the prospect of reviving a general systematic discourse that was marginalized in most scientific fields at the turn of the twentieth century. I favor calling it Developmental Systems...

Cybernetics and the Social Sciences.
September 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Cybernetics was formulated by its founders as a metadiscipline with the aim not only of fostering collaboration between disciplines (interdisciplinarity), but also of sharing knowledge across disciplines (transdisciplinarity)....

Cybersemiotics: A Reconceptualization of the Foundation for Information Science.
September 1, 2001... In previous papers (Brier 1999a, 1999b, 2000, 2001) I have analysed how the pan-informational and the pan-semiotic research programmes each try to cover the whole area of cognition, information, signification and communication. I attempted to...

Management Observation and Communication Theory and Organizational Information.
September 1, 2001... INTRODUCTION Management observation and communication theory (MOCT) (Heiskanen and Swanson, 1992) is an integration of linguistic--mathematical theory (L-M theory) (Heiskanen, 1975; Heiskanen and Airaksinen, 1979) and living systems theory...

UK SYSTEMS SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2002 (CONFERENCE UPDATE).
September 1, 2001... By now you have probably received the call for papers for the 7th UKSS International Conference to be held from 7 to 10 July 2002, at the University of York. The conference title is 'Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age,' which we...

BERTALANFFY ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 2001: UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... International Conference on Systems Thinking Globally Concerned, 1-4 November 2001, University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology. The motto of this conference--'Unity through Diversity'--determines not only the substance of the...