ISSN: 1999-6918
ISSS 2006 Papers
Table of Contents
Agent-Based Social Systems Science
| Is Good Algorithm for Computer Players also Good for Human Players? | Abstract PDF |
| Naoki Konno, Kyoichi Kijima |
| Foundation of Subjective Confrontation Analysis | Abstract PDF |
| Pri Hermawan, Kyoichi Kijima |
| SimDrug: Exploring the Complexity of Illicit Drug Markets. | Abstract PDF |
| pascal perez |
| Group Decision Analysis (GDA)-- A Framework of Structural Rational Group Discussion -- | Abstract PDF XHTML |
| Norimasa Kobayashi, Kyoichi Kijima |
Applied Systems
| A new idea on enterprise development strategy research based on systemic metaphors and its application | Abstract PDF |
| Jianmei Yang, Zheng He |
| Toward a Design of an Instrument for the Selection of Leadership in the Management Levels | Abstract PDF |
| Ricardo Tejeida Padilla, Martha Avila, Oswaldo Morales, Luis Hernandez |
| SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM SITUATION OF THE HYDRAULIC SERVICE OF MEXICO CITY | Abstract PDF |
| Isaias José Badillo |
Critical Systems
| Paradigm Issues in Critical Systems Thinking and Their Interpretation in Three Developmental Systemic Interventions | Abstract PDF |
| Doncho I Petkov, Olga Petkova, Truthilal Nepal, Theo Andrew |
Designing Educational Systems
| Boundary Critique: A minimal concept theory of systems thinking | Abstract PDF |
| Derek A. Cabrera |
| Application of a Systems Approach to Distance Education | Abstract PDF |
| Teresa A Daniel |
| Navigating by the North Star: Bridging the Pedagogical Gap Between Content and Structure in Higher Education | Abstract PDF |
| Kendall Dunnigan |
Evolutionary Design
| In Search of a Systemic Model of Municipal Integration for the Touristic Sustainable Development | Abstract |
| Ricardo Tejeida, Juan Vargas, Oswaldo Morales |
| Natural Systems: Demonstrating the Interdependencies Between Sustainability and Democracy | Abstract PDF |
| Dave Ewoldt |
| The development of the Collective Intelligence for the Sustainability: a task of democracy and complexity | Abstract PDF |
| Honorato C. Teissier-Fuentes |
| The measurement of the development of systems and general thinking in agricultural areas of Colombia; preliminary results | Abstract PDF |
| Sjors Witjes, Pablo Muñoz Specht, Carolina Montoya Rodriguez |
| Structural design for sustainability: Cybernetic Theory and Practice | Abstract PDF |
| Angela Espinosa, Roger Harnden, Jon Walker |
| The Conscious Evolution of History: Creating an Environment for an Emergent History of North East Asia | Abstract PDF |
| Paul R. Hays, Jacqueline Wasilewski |
| Watershed Restoration Groups and Democratic Forest Trusts as Evolutionary Learning Communities | Abstract PDF |
| Gus diZerega |
| Managing Overwhelming Complexity In Human-Landscape Interactions | Abstract PDF |
| Nicholas Magliocca |
| We're Not Dumb Enough To Survive As A Species, But Are We Smart Enough? | Abstract PDF |
| Russell Glynn Derickson |
| In Search of Sacred Intelligence: Shamanic Sensibilities & the Evolution of Diversity in Business | Abstract PDF |
| Palma Vizzoni |
| Fostering a Sustainable Learning Society through Knowledge Based Development | Abstract PDF |
| Kathia Castro Laszlo, Alexander Laszlo |
General Theory of Systems
| True, Good and General System Theories: How to Develop and Evaluate Them | Abstract PDF |
| Carl Slawski |
| QUANTIC NETWORKS OF ENERGY AND INFORMATION: SUPER-ORGANISMS | Abstract PDF |
| luis sancho |
| Circularity of Human Knowing and System Science | Abstract PDF |
| Antonin Rosicky |
| UNIFICATION THEORY:THE 2 ARROWS OF THE UNIVERSE: SPATIAL ENERGY AND INFORMATIVE TIME | Abstract PDF |
| luis sancho |
| Rethinking Systems Movement | Abstract PDF |
| Abdur Md. Rouf |
| Operationalizing resilience in Australian and New Zealand agroecosystems | Abstract PDF |
| Cameron S Fletcher, Miller Craig, David W Hilbert |
| Qualitative Systems Thinking | Abstract PDF |
| Anthony Malcolm Hodgson |
| Is Paul Weiss' and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's System Thinking still valid today? | Abstract PDF |
| Manfred Drack, Wilfried Apfalter |
| The Nature of Change: A Systems Theory Approach to Causality | Abstract PDF |
| Linda Irene GLASSOP |
Global Systems
| Reflexivity in Social Systems: The theories of George Soros | Abstract |
| Stuart Umpleby |
| Dynamics and Development of the International System: A Complexity Science Perspective | Abstract PDF |
| Ingo Piepers |
Gregory Bateson Forum
| Theory and practice of evolutionary civilization: discussion paper | Abstract PDF |
| John Antony Broadbent |
| Mapping Gregory Bateson's Epistemology to Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory: Dynamic Form and Hierarchies of Knowledge | Abstract PDF |
| Thomas E Malloy, Gary C. Jensen |
| Evolving Science & Humanity: Humanity As A Relational Ground | Abstract PDF |
| Ayten Aydin |
Hierarchy Theory
| Systemic Thinking as a Gluing Material for Solving Earth’s Nature’s Problems Due to Mankind | Abstract PDF |
| Magdalena A. Kalaidjieva |
| Boundaries and Conflict Between Social and Ecological Emergent Orders: A Left-Hayekian Perspective | Abstract PDF |
| Gus diZerega |
| The Hard Facts of Soft Social Systems: Towards a Theoretical and Practical Model for Schools and Other Organizations | Abstract PDF |
| Susan Farr Gabriele |
Human Systems Inquiry
| Participatory Knowing: A Story-Centered Approach to Human Systems | Abstract PDF |
| Jack Petranker |
| Dancing With Demons: Pathogenic Problem Solving | Abstract PDF |
| Kathleen S. Long |
| From Applied Narratives to Systemic Inquiry – Human system inquiry in action | Abstract PDF |
| Louis Klein, Alexander Kiehne |
| Progressive Learning Processes Model – Interpretive Methodological | Abstract PDF |
| Nancy Michail, Dr. Greg Teal, Jane Basta |
Information Systems Design
| Knowledge and Conceptual Information | Abstract PDF |
| Antonin ROSICKY, Antonin Pavlicek |
| Information Basis for Action in Human Information Processing: Consequences for Information System Design | Abstract PDF |
| Bertil Lind |
| Systems Science in the Information Society | Abstract PDF |
| Ann Lind |
| The Need of Compatibility of Information Processing with the Control Structure of the Organization | Abstract PDF |
| Roberto R Kampfner |
| Theory of Systems and Information Systems Research Frameworks | Abstract PDF |
| Manuel Mora |
| Innovative approaches to water security: ICTs as platforms for systemic online negotiation | Abstract PDF |
| sandrine michele simon |
Living Systems Analysis
| Early Social Innovations: Belief Systems | Abstract PDF |
| James Robert Simms |
| Evolutionary Processes in Living Systems | Abstract PDF |
| Lane Tracy |
| The Current Relations between Two Koreas & Matter-Energy, Information Flow | Abstract PDF |
| Youn-soo Sim |
| Achieving the Sustainable Development through the world | Abstract PDF |
| hyuk kihl kwon |
Medical & Health Systems
| What We Can Do Locally | Abstract PDF |
| Robert Porter (Skip) Robinson |
| The Biocybernetical Revolution Applying an Elementary Biocybernetic System to Medicine and Society. Subtitle “Complexity, Democracy, Sustainability”. | Abstract PDF |
| Allan DeBavelaere |
| Systemic Analysis of the Tourism and Health Relationship | Abstract PDF |
| Ricardo Tejeida, Jose Pino, Oswaldo Morales, Jaime Santos |
| Epilepsy as a Dynamic Complex System | Abstract |
| Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Teresa Contreras-Troya |
Organizational Transformation & Social Change
| How to critique an Australian Community Managed Food Distribution System, Food Connect | Abstract PDF |
| Nina Anne Stephens |
| From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui | Abstract PDF |
| Maurice Isaac Yolles |
| Integral transformation of organizational systems | Abstract PDF |
| Ignacio E. Peon |
| Contemporary agri-ecological systems and their contribution to community resilience: reconnecting people and food, and people with people | Abstract PDF |
| Christine Anne King |
| Organisational Fitness: from the Viable Systems Model to Organisational Patterning | Abstract PDF |
| Maurice Isaac Yolles |
| From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui | Abstract Untitled PDF |
| Maurice Isaac Yolles |
| Sustainability Planning and its Role in Creating Capacity for Learning: a Complex Adaptive System Perspective | Abstract PDF |
| Csaba Pusztai |
| Applying Systems to Capacity-Building in Participatory, Ecologically Informed Planning | Abstract PDF |
| Joanne Tippett, Emma Jane Griffiths |
| Mexican Voter Network as a Dynamic Complex System | Abstract PDF |
| Oswaldo Morales, Miguel Martinez, Ricardo Tejeida |
| The Effects of Family and Homemaking on the Career Development of Japanese RNs | Abstract PDF |
| Kyoko Kato, Koichi Ono, Kazuyo Sekiguchi |
| Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems | Abstract PDF |
| Miguel Patiño Ortiz, Ricardo Tejeida Padilla |
| Complexity and Adaptive Policy Systems: CALFED as an Emergent Form of Governance for Sustainable Managemennt of Contested Resources | Abstract PDF |
| David Booher, Judith Innes |
| Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems | Abstract |
| Miguel Patiño-Ortiz, Ernesto Galvez-Medina, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Julian Patiño-Ortiz |
| A Sideways Look at Systems: Identifying Sub-Systemic Dimensions as a Technique for Avoiding a Hierarchical Perspective | Abstract PDF |
| Steve Eugene Wallis |
Systems Applications in Business & Industry
| From Theory to Practice: Taking General Systems Theory from a Theoretical Concept to a Successful Business Practice | Abstract PDF |
| Billy Dawson |
| Corporate Change and Traditional Chinese Medicine | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Kuang-cheng Wang |
| Product design as a key to a business system perspective that promotes sustainable forestry | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Reine Karlsson, Magnus Löf, Donald Huisingh |
| What do innovative leaders have in common with ancient myths? A view of the archetypal hero within the modern manager | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Filippina Risopoulos |
| Which “Language” need Organizations for a better Conversational Interaction? A Systemic View on applied every day Business Language | Abstract PDF |
| Filippina Risopoulos |
| Organizational Creativity as a Prerequisite for the Generation of Innovation | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Gerald Steiner |
| Innovation as a Two-sided Coin with Special Consideration of Analogies | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Gerald Steiner |
| Unlearning/Learning Organizations – The Role of Mindset | Abstract PDF |
| John Pourdehnad, Bruce Warren, Maureen Wright, John Mairano |
| Walking the Line: Making ane Dissolving Distinctions with the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity | Abstract XHTML PDF |
| Allenna Leonard |
| Is Lean Necessarily Green? | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Kumar Venkat, Wayne Wakeland |
| Obstacles to Consciousness in Corporations | Abstract PDF HTML |
| Pamela Buckle |
| Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions in Complex Systems | Abstract PDF |
| Kambiz Maani, Anson Li |
Systems Approaches in Arts-Informed Inquiry
| Evolutionary Guidance Media: An Overview | Abstract PDF |
| Dana Klisanin |
| Paper: Visualization of the Organization: An Aesthetic Ecology for the City of Newark | Abstract PDF |
| Ade Tugbiyele Sedita |
| Syntegral Design: group-based creativity through aesthetic processes | Abstract PDF |
| Brian Woodward |
Systems in Latin America
| Youth at Risk Groups: Are they autpoietic systems? | Abstract PDF |
| Alberto Montbrun |
| Toward the Design of an Audiovisual Room for the Cultural Tourism in México | Abstract PDF |
| Ricardo Tejeida, Julia Navarro, Miguel Patiño, Julian Pätiño |
| REFLECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERIOR EXISTANCE | Abstract PDF |
| Enrique Orduñez, Isaias José Badillo |
| Improvements of the water usage in the Mexico City Metropolian Area | Abstract PDF |
| elvira avalos |
Systems Philosophy & Ethics
| Science, Cybernetics and Knowing | Abstract PDF |
| Weld Carter |
| Viable Urban Settlements | Abstract PDF |
| Jon Li |
| From Economic to Sustainable Development - Unfolding the Concept of Law | Abstract PDF |
| Hanne Birgitte Jensen |
| A Lethal Fundamental Error: How to Recognize, Reject & Replace It | Abstract HTML PDF |
| C. A. Hilgartner |
| An Analysis of the System Theoretic Perspectives in the Proposals by Klir and Luhmann for the Study of Cross-Area Epistemic Communication | Abstract PDF |
| Rafael A. Ayala-Rodríguez |
| Systems Tools for Institutional Transformation & Viable Urban Settlements | Abstract PDF |
| Jon Li |
| Re-Constructing Culture | Abstract PDF |
| Martha A Bartter |
| Mindful Knowing | Abstract PDF |
| Kay Fielden |
| The Emergence of Ethical Norms in Human Systems | Abstract PDF XHTML |
| Mark Graves |
Systems-Specific Technology
| COGNITIVE DICTIONARY: A REPRESENTATION OF SHARED REALITY | Abstract PDF |
| BORIS GORBIS |
| SYSTEMIC VIEW OF PARTS OF THE WORLD | Abstract PDF |
| Janos Korn |
| Consequences of Increments in Cognitive Structure for Attentional Automatization, the Experience of Boredom, and Engagement in Egocentric, Hyperdynamic, Interest-Generating Behaviors: A Developmental Psychophysiologic Approach | Abstract PDF XHTML |
| Augustin Mateo de la Pena |
Terror, Torture, Secrecy, Propaganda, Democracy, and Peace Development
| Torture and Secrecy versus Democracy and Peace Development | Abstract PDF |
| Carl Slawski |
| Structural Coupling in Engagement Diplomacy: Case Study on South Korea’s Engagement Coalition for Buying Peace | Abstract PDF |
| Sung Chull Kim |
| D S V, Disasters, a Systemic Vision | Abstract PDF |
| Francisco J. Aceves, Joel Audefroy, Jaime Santos |
What is Life / Living
| Theoretical Appraisal of Sustainability Metrics and Empirical Application to an Irish City-region to Assess Current and Future Sustainability | Abstract PDF |
| David Anthony Browne |
| Information as Communication: The New Eco-Informatics | Abstract Untitled Untitled |
| John J Kineman, K. Anil Kumar |
| Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification | Abstract PDF |
| Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx |
Symposium on Economics
| Triple Bottom Line: The Economic Systems Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Abundant Service Economy | Abstract PDF |
| Art Warmoth |