Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2002

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2002

ISSS Yearbook 2001. (Guest Editorial).(International Society for Systems Sciences)(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... Welcome to this special ISSS Yearbook Edition of Systems Research and Behavioral Science devoted to the 45th Annual ISSS Conference and General Meeting. As the guest editor I am pleased to present the keynote presentations along with selected...

Systems and services. (Keynote Presentation).
September 1, 2002... I am truly honored to give this presentation. May I say that the experience with my student, Harold Nelson, as he completed his interdisciplinary thesis opened up my ideas to systems change. It was his change of the topic, as he discussed...

The modern dilemma and the challenge to systems thinkers. (Keynote Paper).
September 1, 2002... In a recent paper by Richard Levins of the Harvard School of Public Health given at the Ecological Society of America meeting in 2001, Professor Levins outlined a need for and the possibility of `a science for sustainable, humane and productive...

Being in service: lip service? Room service? Self-service? Protective or military service? Social or public service? Full service? (President's Address).
September 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Systems thinking, the systems approach or systems science is inherently about understanding relationships. Two systemic relationships that I have been particularly interested in are related to each other in a critically...

Roots and branches: a brief, picaresque, personal history of systems theory. (Research Paper).
September 1, 2002... The elephant of systems theory is vast. From my viewpoint in social systems, I see a clear development of some social systems roots and a large number of branches. My vision is, of course, limited. The hope is that my truncated roots and...

Exploring the genealogy of systems thinking. (Research Paper).
September 1, 2002... As a plenary address at the 2001 Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), this paper was intended to initiate an interactive exploration into the roots of systems thinking. Beginning with a summary of the...

The map of science collaboratory. (Research Paper).
September 1, 2002... This paper develops the idea for a program of nationwide collaboratories. It argues that now that we have completed mapping the human genome, we should begin to map its corresponding social unit--the set of instructions that generate/constitute...

A trusting constructivist approach to systemic inquiry: exploring accountability. (Research Paper).
September 1, 2002... This paper offers an outline of, and justification for, what I call a `trusting constructivist' approach to systemic inquiry. I work with the constructivist view that, as Banathy puts it: `what we know about the world becomes projected onto the...

The Agora Project: the New Agoras of the twenty-first century. (Research Paper).(public spheres for cultural evolution)
September 1, 2002... The Agoras of the City States of the Classical Greeks were public spheres where democracy was lived by citizens who made collective decisions about issues affecting their daily lives. The Agora Project--New Agoras--is a metaphor for social...

Initial findings on cross-system utilization of citizen foster care review board recommendations.(Utah Foster Care Citizen Review Board)
September 1, 2002... During 1998 an estimated 560,000 children were in foster care across the United States. With increasing numbers of children in foster care policy-makers are concerned with permanency planning. In an effort to promote permanency planning the US...

Perceiving the pattern of organization in a family system. (Research Paper).
September 1, 2002... Physicist and writer Fritjof Capra states that the crisis of our times is a crisis of perception. I would suggest the crisis stems from our inability to perceive systemic connections. We are conditioned by the seventeenth-century worldview of...

International Conference on Systems, Development and Self-Organization (ICSDS 2002), 30 November-1 December 2002, Beijing, China. (News).
September 1, 2002... The International Conference on Systems, Development and Self-Organization, hosted by the Research Centre for Contemporary Management, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, will be held in Beijing in 2002. The purpose of...

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness down to Size.
September 1, 2002... By Tor Norrentranders (translated by Jonathan Sydenham). Published by Penguin Books, New York, 1999, 480 pp., ISBN 0 140 23012 2, 10.99 [pounds sterling]. This book has something for systems thinkers and practitioners who are interested in...