Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2005

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2005

Guest editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2005... This ISSS Yearbook celebrates 50 years of systems science. The precursor organization of the International Society for the Systems Sciences was the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory. It held its first meeting in Berkeley,...

Fifty years of systems science: further reflections.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION December 2004 marked 50 years since the first organizational meeting of the precursor organization of the International Society for the Systems Sciences was held nearby in Berkeley, California. Thus it is fitting that our...

The study of pathology and living systems theory.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The study of pathology is informed by living systems theory (LST) (Miller, 1978; Miller and Miller, 1991). The term pathology usually refers to systems at the cell, organ, and organism levels of life. LST, however, generalizes...

Living systems and its philosophy considered at the level of the earth.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Miller's living systems theory is a life's work; it has a philosophical foundation and incorporates the views and findings of very large numbers of researchers representing a wide range of subject areas. The work has been...

Combining a systems framework with epidemiology in the study of emerging infectious disease.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION This paper focuses on a systems approach to the public health concern of emerging infectious disease (EID). Emerging, or re-emerging, infectious diseases, e.g. MRSA, hantaviruses, tuberculosis, bubonic plague, HIV and cholera,...

Anticipatory systems and time: a new look at Rosennean complexity.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Is it possible, as the late Dr Robert Rosen (1934-1998) claimed, that scientific theories derived from the study of systems in biology can tell us something about systems which, currently, are considered to be the province of...

Life and simple systems.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION One of the preoccupations of Homo sapiens is, and has been, to explain in some way the genesis of life, both in an abstract sense and in the appearance of individual organisms. Over the last century there has been a...

Negotiated order and network form organizations.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION Will 21st-century businesses be managed and governed significantly differently from those in the 20th century? The conventional approach to business, as practiced by most western business executives and taught in graduate...

The practice of information system development and use: a dialectical approach.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2005... INTRODUCTION The society of today is characterized by a change rate higher than ever before caused by an enormous amount of information. To cope with that it is necessary to apply lifelong learning. It is in most cases no longer possible...

Workshop on internet and network economics, Hong Kong, 15-17 December 2005, Hong Kong.(News)
September 1, 2005... There has been a growing trend in merging theories, methodologies and applications in Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics and Management Sciences for solving problems arising in Internet technologies, grid computing and network...

International Conference on Operations Research Applications in Infrastructure Development, in conjunction with the 2005 Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (ICORAID-2005-ORSI), 27-29 December 2005, National Science Seminar Complex (NSSC), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.(News)
September 1, 2005... This conference will gather together Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) practitioners, engineers, scientists, academicians, policy makers in the government and enthusiasts to discuss the possible applications, past successful...

The 18th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2006), 18-21 April 2006, University of Vienna, Austria.(News)
September 1, 2005... This meeting is organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with the Institute of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, and the International...