{"title":"Taming the future, A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Scientific Forecasting","authors":"J. Gigch","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850100205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850100205","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"4 2","pages":"107-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850100205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50990721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I as in academy: Learning to be systemic","authors":"R. Bawden","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850120307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850120307","url":null,"abstract":"With kind permission of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, we are able to publish Professor Richard Bawden's ‘Von Bertalanffy Lecture’, presented in July 1993, at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Society at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Australia.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"31 1","pages":"229-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850120307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Combining hard, soft, and critical methodologies in systems research: The cultural constraints","authors":"J. Brocklesby, S. Cummings","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850120308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850120308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"34 4","pages":"239-245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850120308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synergy and self-organization in the evolution of complex systems","authors":"P. Corning","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850120204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850120204","url":null,"abstract":"Synergy of various kinds has played a significant creative role in evolution; it has been a prodigious source of evolutionary novelty. Elsewhere it has been proposed that the functional (selective) advantages associated with various forms of synergistic phenomena have been an important cause of the ‘progressive’ evolution of complex systems over time. Underlying the many specific steps in the complexification process, a common functional principle has been operative. Recent mathematical modelling work in biology, utilizing a new generation of non-linear dynamical systems models, has resulted in a radically different hypothesis. It has been asserted that ‘spontaneous’, autocatalytic processes, which are held to be inherent properties of living matter itself, may be responsible for much of the order found in nature and that natural selection is merely a supporting actor. A new ‘physics of biology’ is envisioned in which emerging natural laws of organization will be recognized as being responsible both for driving the evolutionary process and for truncating the role of natural selection. This article describes these two paradigms in some detail and discusses the possible relationship between them. Their relevance to the process of human evolution is also briefly discussed.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"21 1-2","pages":"89-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850120204","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular approach to living systems","authors":"L. Tracy","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850120205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850120205","url":null,"abstract":"Living systems theory (LST) generates a large set of hypotheses that are thought to be applicable to the following eight levels of living systems: cell, organ, organism, group, organization, community, society, and supranational system. Many of the disciplines from which LST has derived its cross-level propositions are concerned not only with the properties of individual systems, but also with interactions between them. This paper focuses on linked systems and the linkages between them, rather than on individual systems. Intersystem relationships at various levels of living systems are examined for cross-level commonalities. The paper pays particular attention to dyads as the building blocks of quasi-living systems and higher-level living systems. Shared template elements, a common destiny, joint activity, and exchange of resources between and among systems are found to be common, cross-level factors in the bonding of systems.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"47 1","pages":"123-131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850120205","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perspectives from the Boulding files","authors":"Debora R. Hammond","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850120408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850120408","url":null,"abstract":"This paper draws upon research for my dissertation, which is a history of the general systems movement, focusing specifically on the Society for General Systems Research. In the dissertation I examine the backgrounds of the individual founders of the Society in order to understand the influences that led them to establish the Society and to clarify their intentions in doing so. In this paper I discuss Kenneth Boulding's interdisciplinary social science seminars at the University of Michigan as background for his work at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford during its opening year (1954–55), where the idea for the Society was developed and realized. I also discuss the role of the Ford Foundation in establishing the Center and promoting interdisciplinary work in the behavioral sciences during the postwar era. An understanding of this context may enhance appreciation for the significance of Boulding's contribution to the systems movement.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"17 3","pages":"281-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850120408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The individual and the collective in health care: a problem of systems ethics.","authors":"S. Strijbos","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850110305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850110305","url":null,"abstract":"Our society seems to be characterized by certain imbalances between the individual and the collective, between people and the organizational-technical systems they manage. In the health care sector this is reflected for example in the pressing problems concerning the control of costs. To clarify these imbalances they are placed in a broader framework, namely, that of the changing nature of our technical-industrial societies. The role of systems ethics in solving them is explored.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"67-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77397886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Saul Wurman Information Anxiety Doubleday, New York, New York, 350 pages","authors":"Chris Otis","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850090408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850090408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"68-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850090408","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50990287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Main dimensions of human practical directives system","authors":"A. Lewicka-Strzalecka","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850090206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850090206","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"23 2","pages":"49-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850090206","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50990296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Criticizing a collaborative standard system: The step standard data access interface","authors":"J. Geuns, E. Kerckhoffs","doi":"10.1002/SRES.3850110402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/SRES.3850110402","url":null,"abstract":"The suitability of the Standard Data Access Interface (SDAI) as a basis for a collaborative modelling environment is evaluated through the development of a prototype implementation. Problems are reported and possible solutions suggested. A conclusion is formulated about the SDAI and recommendations concerning its future use are given.","PeriodicalId":82877,"journal":{"name":"Systems research : the official journal of the International Federation for Systems Research","volume":"17 6","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/SRES.3850110402","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50991509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}