Systems Research and Behavioral Science articles from September 2007

Systems Research and Behavioral Science archives from September 2007

Complexity, democracy and sustainability: the 50th annual meeting of the ISSS.(Guest Editorial)(Editorial)
September 1, 2007... As past President of the ISSS, it is my responsibility to compile representative papers from work in the systems community over the past year, and especially, from work presented at the 50th annual meeting of the society. This was a challenging...

Complexity and life ([dagger]).(Opening Address)
September 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Mathematically, we need to realize that even the simplest living system, a bacterial cell, is a highly complex network involving literally thousands of interdependent chemical reactions. During the 1970s, a new set of concepts...

Today's Copernican flip: how putting collaborative learning at the hub of human evolution improves our chances of survival.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2007... CRUMBLING AND LEARNING: CYCLES OF CIVILIZATION PAST AND PRESENT The emerging, integral scientific framework helps explain why Western civilization has undergone massive societal change before, always following a similar pattern. The process...

Fostering a sustainable learning society through knowledge-based development.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2007... BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY The first delineation of the Knowledge Economy was introduced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in their 1996 report The Knowledge-Based Economy. According to this report, a...

From economic to sustainable development: unfolding the concept of law.(Research Paper)
September 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION This paper is based on a recently defended thesis 'From Economic to Sustainable Development--Enlarging the Concept of Law'. The analysis required casting a net wide, because the very point was to demonstrate a systemic...

Reflexivity in social systems: the theories of George Soros.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2007... DEFINITIONS OF REFLEXIVITY Reflexivity occurs in social systems when an actor observes and thinks about his or her actions and their consequences and then modifies his or her behaviour. More generally 'reflexion' is defined as the return...

Knowledge work, design science and problem structuring methodologies.(Research Paper)(Report)
September 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION It has been shown that an appropriate approach towards understanding the processes involving OR analysts is to examine how they produce and use knowledge (Keys, 2007a). This argument is developed here by using a general...

Is Paul A. Weiss' and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's system thinking still valid today?(Research Paper)
September 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION According to Rupert Riedl, who was the initiator of the here described research project, system theory is one of the most important issues when it comes to theory, not only in biology. Riedl was a student of zoology in Vienna...

Australia New Zealand Systems Conference 2007: Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment, 2-5 December 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.(NEWS)
September 1, 2007... ANZSYS'07 is the 13th annual systems conference to be held in this series and is located in Auckland at Unitec New Zealand (Mt Albert Campus). The theme of this year's conference is 'Systemic development: Local solutions in a global...