University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA -- July 13th - 18th 2008
ISSN: 1999-6918
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Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
| 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