Papers submitted to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
Table of Contents
2008 Abstracts and Program Book
| 2008 Abstracts and Program Book | |
| Jennifer Wilby |
2008 Plenary Papers
| Confronting Economic Profit with Hierarchy Theory: The Concept of Gain in Ecology | |
| Tim Allen |
| LUDWIG VON BERTALANFFY’S EARLY SYSTEM APPROACH | |
| Manfred Drack |
| Vertical and Horizontal Scaling Strategies to Avoid Destruction in the Modern Contest | |
| James Paul Gustafson |
| Sociable Technologies for Enterprising Sociality | |
| Doug McDavid |
Agent-based Social Simulation
| Preservation of Misperceptions – Stability Analysis of Hypergames | |
| Yasuo Sasaki |
Applied Systems and Development
| What's the North-Korean Nuclear Weapons' Future? | |
| Hyuk Kihl Kwon |
| Korean Politics and Complex Systems Theory | |
| Youn-soo Sim |
Complexity Sciences
| Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, Perspectives: The Simple Rules of Complex Conceptual Systems: A Universal Descriptive Grammar of Cognition | |
| Derek A. Cabrera |
| Introducing the Research - Entropy Debt: A link to sustainability? | |
| Caroline von Schilling, Debra Straussfogel |
Critical Systems Theory and Practice
| A BOUNDARY CRITIQUE OF GENDER IN THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BODY OF KNOWLEDGE® | |
| Pamela Buckle |
| “You are adapting more to me than I am adapting to you” (but what does more mean?): Cybernetic and Foucaultian explorations of the domain of power | |
| Phillip V Guddemi |
Designing Educational Systems
| E-teaching - Eroding the Stronghold of Teachers | |
| Gerhard - Chroust |
| Using systems thinking and social network theory to improve children’s mathematical problem solving skills | |
| Luis Pinzon-Salcedo, Ricardo Barros, Roberto Zarama, Margarita de Meza, Cristina Carulla, Astrid Bejarano |
| UNDERSTANDING UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT USING SYSTEM DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS, A REVIEW BASED ON RESEARCH EXPERIENCES | |
| Maria Cristina Serrano Guzman, Ricardo Sotaquira Gutierrez, Lilia Nayibe Gelvez Pinto, Jose Daniel Cabrera Cruz |
Dialogue
| Business Models and Evolving Economic Paradigms: A Systems Science Approach | |
| David Ing |
| Dialogue and Ecological Engineering in Social Systems Design | |
| Gary Metcalf |
Evolutionary Development
| Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Behaviour (Global Cultural Evolution) | |
| Marcus Abundis |
| BEING VALUES AND BENEFICENT OBSESSIONS: APPLYING THEORIES FROM MASLOW AND ASSAGIOLI TO EVOLUTIONARY GUIDANCE MEDIA | |
| Dana Klisanin |
| Evolutionary Ethics: Vision and Values for a World of Insurmountable Opportunities | |
| Alexander Laszlo |
| Leaders of Change: Social entrepreneurship and the creation of ecologies of solutions | |
| Alexander Kathia Laszlo |
| Co-Creating Living Systems that Thrive on Diversity | |
| Mary Lewis, Bernice Moore, Nancy Southern |
| TOWARD THE CONCEPT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD | |
| Enrique Orduñez-Zavala, Isaias José Badillo, Ignacio Peon-Escalante |
| Systemics and the Mutually Binding Economy Networks: A Knowledge-based Approach for Sustainable Communities | |
| Honorato C. Teissier-Fuentes |
| A SYSTEMS SCIENCE APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF A MUNICIPAL INTEGRATION MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT. CASE: THE ORIENT ZONE OF MEXICO STATE | |
| Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Isaias Badillo-Piña, Juan Carlos Vargas-Castro |
Foundation of Information Science
| A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO STREAMLINING THE CREATION OF WEB-BASED CONTENT | |
| Jed Jones |
Health Systems
| A Difficult Balance: Decisions in Health Care | |
| Marilyn A Metcalf |
| Measuring the Inequity of a health system: A Systems’ Perspective - Systematic Analytical Mapping Approach | |
| Jean-Paul Ngana |
Hierarchy Theory
| The Hard Facts of Soft Social Systems: A General Systems Explanatory Model for Schools and Workplaces | |
| Susan Farr Gabriele |
| A Business Model Architecture: Observation Problems And Solutions In Modelling Businesses And Their Networks | |
| Duncan Robert Shaw |
| Complexity, global climate change and soil carbon cycling: Factors controlling the temperature response of microbial decomposition | |
| Devin Wixon |
Human Systems Inquiry
| CANNIBALIZING CHILDHOOD'S FUTURE AS RISING TO FALLING ROPE | |
| Jeffrey H. Robbins |
Information Systems Design and Information Technology
| Digital Democracy and Citizenship as the Democratic Political Systems for the Information Age | |
| Ilsoo Cho |
| ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUDIT | |
| Syohei Ishizu, Andreas Gehrmann, Junya Minegishi, Yoshimitsu Nagai |
| A Basic Principle for the Architecture of Computer-based information processing | |
| Roberto R Kampfner |
| APPLICATION OF A MODEL OF PLANNING FOR THE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS | |
| Cirilo Leon Vega, Ciro David León Hernández, Salvador Saucedo Flores |
| After-Sales Service Parts Supply Chain System in OEM Telecommunication Firms | |
| Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Mauricio Flores-Cadena, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Ixchel Lina-Reyes |
| Technology Acceptance in libraries: a systemic approach | |
| Alvaro Quijano-Solis |
Living Systems Analysis / What is Life and Living
| FUNDAMENTALS OF RELATIONAL COMPLEXITY THEORY | |
| John Kineman |
| A Service Science Perspective | |
| G.A. Swanson |
| Are Ecosystems Alive? | |
| Vincent Vesterby |
Meta-Modeling and Systems Epistemology
| SYSTEMS OF THINGS THAT FLOW | |
| Sabah Saleh Al-Fedaghi |
| The "Cosmo-Planetary and Terrestrial Meta-Dynamics Systemicity" | |
| Jean-Jacques Blanc |
| MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH E-GOVERNANCE FROM BELOW: AN EVALUATION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS | |
| Janet Judy McIntyre |
Organisational Transformation and Social Change
| Searching for ourselves: A methodological exploration of a Soft System Dynamics Method as a social learning tool for watershed implementation planning | |
| Stephan Brown |
| ARE ORGANISATIONAL SIZE AND EFFICIENCY ENGAGED? | |
| Ricardo Andres Frias, Ricardo Barrera |
| INFORMING THE CONSUMER IS STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY | |
| Anthony Gabriele |
| Evolving to Sustainability | |
| Jon Li |
| Social Responsibility – An Innovation Of Ethic Toward Requisite Holism As A Basis For Humans To Make A Difference In Affluence | |
| Matjaz Mulej, Vojko Potocan, Zdenka Zenko, Jozica Knez-Riedl, Anita Hrast, Damjan Prosenak |
| SYSTEMIC METAMETHODOLOGY FOR METHODS DESIGN | |
| Ignacio Enrique Peon-Escalante, Francisco Javier Aceves, Isaias José Badillo |
| BUREAU-PATHOLOGIES IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS: | |
| Carl Slawski |
Research Toward a General Theory of Systems
| The System of System Processes | |
| Brian Hilton |
| OPERATING PRINCIPLE OF THE UNI-VERSITY | |
| Tom Mandel |
| ADAPTING BANATHY’S SYSTEMS VIEW OF EDUCATION TO A SYSTEMS VIEW OF HUMAN SYSTEMS | |
| Lynn Rasmussen |
| A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
| Mehdi Yahyavi, Mohammad Vaziri Yazdi |
Spirituality and Systems
| How To Look Across The Room | |
| John Nathan Ong |
| The Traditional Morality of Totalitarianism: Juche Ideology through Hyo | |
| Chul Ho Park |
Systems Applications in Business and Industry
| A SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY APPROACH TO DESIGN A RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT MODEL FOR A GREAT TOURISM HOTEL | |
| Abraham Briones-Juarez, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros |
| Growth Strategy and Hierarchy Theory: Emergence of Super-players in the Healthcare Computed Tomography Oligopoly | |
| Jerome GALBRUN, Kyoichi KIJIMA |
| Symbiosis as a Metaphor for Sustainability Practice in Human Affairs | |
| Allenna Leonard |
| Systems Thinking for Team and Organisational learning Case of Performance Measure Conflicts in a Multinational Supply Chain | |
| Kambiz Maani, Annie Fan |
| AUDIT SUPPORT PLUG-IN SYSTEM BY THE USE OF ONTOLOGY MODEL | |
| Junya Minegishi, Andreas Gehrmann, Yoshimitsu Nagai, Syohei Ishizu |
| Failure of foresight: Learning from system failures through dynamic model | |
| Takafumi Nakamura, Kyoichi Kijima |
| INCORPORATING SYSTEMS THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE PROJECTS USING ACTION RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS CONDUCTING ACADEMIC RESEARCH | |
| Shankar Sankaran |
Systems Modeling and Simulation
| A VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL APPROACH TO ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING SYSTEMS | |
| Isaias José Badillo-Piña, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros |
| Architecture Case Study in Transformity Factorization | |
| Dennis Glenn Collins |
| A SYSTEMS-THEORETICAL REPRESENTATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS | |
| Takehiro Inohara |
| Analysis on Trust Game by Reciprocal Agents | |
| Hidetoshi Okayasu |
Ecological/Environmental Systems
| Holistic Method for Developing Risk Maps in Rural Zones | |
| Francisco J. Aceves, Joel F Audefroy, Ignacio E Peon |
| Negotiating Social Complexity | |
| Ken Bausch |
| Backstage of the Global Climate Change: a system that everybody seems to think that it relates to someone else | |
| Ricardo Andres Frias, Tariana Maia Gessaga, Jorge Oscar Rabassa |
Emeritus Papers
| The Uses of the SystemicCybernetic Approach in Human Affairs: a call for practice | |
| Charles Francois |
2007 Papers
| Integrated System Dynamics: Analysis of Policy Options for Tobacco Control in New Zealand | |
| Robert Cavana, Martin Tobias |
| greenhouse: An Integrated Knowledge System for Teachers | |
| Grant Wheatley |
| Integrating Education and Mental Health Systems | |
| Grant Wheatley |
| A methodology for the Integration of Ancient and Modern System Theories: The Portal for the 2000years old Taichi Yin-Yang System Theory | |
| Thomas Sui Leung Wong, Vasos Pavlika, Connie Li Xu, E C Huang |
ISSN: 1999-6918