ISSS 2006 Papers

Published: 2006-04-25

Agent-Based Social Systems Science

Is Good Algorithm for Computer Players also Good for Human Players?

Naoki Konno, Kyoichi Kijima
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Foundation of Subjective Confrontation Analysis

Pri Hermawan, Kyoichi Kijima
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SimDrug: Exploring the Complexity of Illicit Drug Markets.

pascal perez
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Group Decision Analysis (GDA)-- A Framework of Structural Rational Group Discussion --

Norimasa Kobayashi, Kyoichi Kijima
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Applied Systems

A new idea on enterprise development strategy research based on systemic metaphors and its application

Jianmei Yang, Zheng He
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Toward a Design of an Instrument for the Selection of Leadership in the Management Levels

Ricardo Tejeida Padilla, Martha Avila, Oswaldo Morales, Luis Hernandez
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SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM SITUATION OF THE HYDRAULIC SERVICE OF MEXICO CITY

Isaias José Badillo
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Critical Systems

Paradigm Issues in Critical Systems Thinking and Their Interpretation in Three Developmental Systemic Interventions

Doncho I Petkov, Olga Petkova, Truthilal Nepal, Theo Andrew
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Designing Educational Systems

Boundary Critique: A minimal concept theory of systems thinking

Derek A. Cabrera
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Application of a Systems Approach to Distance Education

Teresa A Daniel
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Navigating by the North Star: Bridging the Pedagogical Gap Between Content and Structure in Higher Education

Kendall Dunnigan
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Evolutionary Design

In Search of a Systemic Model of Municipal Integration for the Touristic Sustainable Development

Ricardo Tejeida, Juan Vargas, Oswaldo Morales
Natural Systems: Demonstrating the Interdependencies Between Sustainability and Democracy

Dave Ewoldt
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The development of the Collective Intelligence for the Sustainability: a task of democracy and complexity

Honorato C. Teissier-Fuentes
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The measurement of the development of systems and general thinking in agricultural areas of Colombia; preliminary results

Sjors Witjes, Pablo Muñoz Specht, Carolina Montoya Rodriguez
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Structural design for sustainability: Cybernetic Theory and Practice

Angela Espinosa, Roger Harnden, Jon Walker
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The Conscious Evolution of History: Creating an Environment for an Emergent History of North East Asia

Paul R. Hays, Jacqueline Wasilewski
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Watershed Restoration Groups and Democratic Forest Trusts as Evolutionary Learning Communities

Gus diZerega
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Managing Overwhelming Complexity In Human-Landscape Interactions

Nicholas Magliocca
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We're Not Dumb Enough To Survive As A Species, But Are We Smart Enough?

Russell Glynn Derickson
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In Search of Sacred Intelligence: Shamanic Sensibilities & the Evolution of Diversity in Business

Palma Vizzoni
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Fostering a Sustainable Learning Society through Knowledge Based Development

Kathia Castro Laszlo, Alexander Laszlo
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General Theory of Systems

True, Good and General System Theories: How to Develop and Evaluate Them

Carl Slawski
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Circularity of Human Knowing and System Science

Antonin Rosicky
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Rethinking Systems Movement

Abdur Md. Rouf
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Operationalizing resilience in Australian and New Zealand agroecosystems

Cameron S Fletcher, Miller Craig, David W Hilbert
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Qualitative Systems Thinking

Anthony Malcolm Hodgson
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Is Paul Weiss' and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's System Thinking still valid today?

Manfred Drack, Wilfried Apfalter
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The Nature of Change: A Systems Theory Approach to Causality

Linda Irene GLASSOP
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Global Systems

Reflexivity in Social Systems: The theories of George Soros

Stuart Umpleby
Dynamics and Development of the International System: A Complexity Science Perspective

Ingo Piepers
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Gregory Bateson Forum

Theory and practice of evolutionary civilization: discussion paper

John Antony Broadbent
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Mapping Gregory Bateson's Epistemology to Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Theory: Dynamic Form and Hierarchies of Knowledge

Thomas E Malloy, Gary C. Jensen
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Evolving Science & Humanity: Humanity As A Relational Ground

Ayten Aydin
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Hierarchy Theory

Systemic Thinking as a Gluing Material for Solving Earth’s Nature’s Problems Due to Mankind

Magdalena A. Kalaidjieva
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Boundaries and Conflict Between Social and Ecological Emergent Orders: A Left-Hayekian Perspective

Gus diZerega
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The Hard Facts of Soft Social Systems: Towards a Theoretical and Practical Model for Schools and Other Organizations

Susan Farr Gabriele
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Human Systems Inquiry

Participatory Knowing: A Story-Centered Approach to Human Systems

Jack Petranker
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Dancing With Demons: Pathogenic Problem Solving

Kathleen S. Long
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From Applied Narratives to Systemic Inquiry – Human system inquiry in action

Louis Klein, Alexander Kiehne
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Progressive Learning Processes Model – Interpretive Methodological

Nancy Michail, Dr. Greg Teal, Jane Basta
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Information Systems Design

Knowledge and Conceptual Information

Antonin ROSICKY, Antonin Pavlicek
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Information Basis for Action in Human Information Processing: Consequences for Information System Design

Bertil Lind
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Systems Science in the Information Society

Ann Lind
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The Need of Compatibility of Information Processing with the Control Structure of the Organization

Roberto R Kampfner
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Theory of Systems and Information Systems Research Frameworks

Manuel Mora
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Innovative approaches to water security: ICTs as platforms for systemic online negotiation

sandrine michele simon
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Living Systems Analysis

Early Social Innovations: Belief Systems

James Robert Simms
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Evolutionary Processes in Living Systems

Lane Tracy
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The Current Relations between Two Koreas & Matter-Energy, Information Flow

Youn-soo Sim
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Achieving the Sustainable Development through the world

hyuk kihl kwon
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Medical & Health Systems

What We Can Do Locally

Robert Porter (Skip) Robinson
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The Biocybernetical Revolution Applying an Elementary Biocybernetic System to Medicine and Society. Subtitle “Complexity, Democracy, Sustainability”.

Allan DeBavelaere
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Systemic Analysis of the Tourism and Health Relationship

Ricardo Tejeida, Jose Pino, Oswaldo Morales, Jaime Santos
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Epilepsy as a Dynamic Complex System

Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Teresa Contreras-Troya

Organizational Transformation & Social Change

Limits to Democracy: Constraints on Systems Approaches to Organizational Change

Roberta Snow
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How to critique an Australian Community Managed Food Distribution System, Food Connect

Nina Anne Stephens
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From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui

Maurice Isaac Yolles
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Integral transformation of organizational systems

Ignacio E. Peon
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Contemporary agri-ecological systems and their contribution to community resilience: reconnecting people and food, and people with people

Christine Anne King
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Organisational Fitness: from the Viable Systems Model to Organisational Patterning

Maurice Isaac Yolles
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From Knowledge Cybernetics to Feng Shui

Maurice Isaac Yolles
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Sustainability Planning and its Role in Creating Capacity for Learning: a Complex Adaptive System Perspective

Csaba Pusztai
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Applying Systems to Capacity-Building in Participatory, Ecologically Informed Planning

Joanne Tippett, Emma Jane Griffiths
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Mexican Voter Network as a Dynamic Complex System

Oswaldo Morales, Miguel Martinez, Ricardo Tejeida
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The Effects of Family and Homemaking on the Career Development of Japanese RNs

Kyoko Kato, Koichi Ono, Kazuyo Sekiguchi
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Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems

Miguel Patiño Ortiz, Ricardo Tejeida Padilla
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Complexity and Adaptive Policy Systems: CALFED as an Emergent Form of Governance for Sustainable Managemennt of Contested Resources

David Booher, Judith Innes
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Organizational Development, Complexity and Dynamics of Systems

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

Steve Eugene Wallis
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Systems Applications in Business & Industry

From Theory to Practice: Taking General Systems Theory from a Theoretical Concept to a Successful Business Practice

Billy Dawson
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Product design as a key to a business system perspective that promotes sustainable forestry

Reine Karlsson, Magnus Löf, Donald Huisingh
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Corporate Change and Traditional Chinese Medicine

Kuang-cheng Wang
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What do innovative leaders have in common with ancient myths? A view of the archetypal hero within the modern manager

Filippina Risopoulos
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Which “Language” need Organizations for a better Conversational Interaction? A Systemic View on applied every day Business Language

Filippina Risopoulos
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Organizational Creativity as a Prerequisite for the Generation of Innovation

Gerald Steiner
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Innovation as a Two-sided Coin with Special Consideration of Analogies

Gerald Steiner
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Unlearning/Learning Organizations – The Role of Mindset

John Pourdehnad, Bruce Warren, Maureen Wright, John Mairano
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Walking the Line: Making ane Dissolving Distinctions with the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity

Allenna Leonard
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Is Lean Necessarily Green?

Kumar Venkat, Wayne Wakeland
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Obstacles to Consciousness in Corporations

Pamela Buckle
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Counter-Intuitive Managerial Interventions in Complex Systems

Kambiz Maani, Anson Li
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Systems Approaches in Arts-Informed Inquiry

Evolutionary Guidance Media: An Overview

Dana Klisanin
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Paper: Visualization of the Organization: An Aesthetic Ecology for the City of Newark

Ade Tugbiyele Sedita
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Syntegral Design: group-based creativity through aesthetic processes

Brian Woodward
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Systems in Latin America

Youth at Risk Groups: Are they autpoietic systems?

Alberto Montbrun
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Toward the Design of an Audiovisual Room for the Cultural Tourism in México

Ricardo Tejeida, Julia Navarro, Miguel Patiño, Julian Pätiño
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REFLECTIONS ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERIOR EXISTANCE

Enrique Orduñez, Isaias José Badillo
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Improvements of the water usage in the Mexico City Metropolian Area

elvira avalos
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Systems Philosophy & Ethics

Science, Cybernetics and Knowing

Weld Carter
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Viable Urban Settlements

Jon Li
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From Economic to Sustainable Development - Unfolding the Concept of Law

Hanne Birgitte Jensen
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A Lethal Fundamental Error: How to Recognize, Reject & Replace It

C. A. Hilgartner
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An Analysis of the System Theoretic Perspectives in the Proposals by Klir and Luhmann for the Study of Cross-Area Epistemic Communication

Rafael A. Ayala-Rodríguez
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Systems Tools for Institutional Transformation & Viable Urban Settlements

Jon Li
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Re-Constructing Culture

Martha A Bartter
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Mindful Knowing

Kay Fielden
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The Emergence of Ethical Norms in Human Systems

Mark Graves
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Systems-Specific Technology

COGNITIVE DICTIONARY: A REPRESENTATION OF SHARED REALITY

BORIS GORBIS
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SYSTEMIC VIEW OF PARTS OF THE WORLD

Janos Korn
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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

Augustin Mateo de la Pena
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Terror, Torture, Secrecy, Propaganda, Democracy, and Peace Development

Torture and Secrecy versus Democracy and Peace Development

Carl Slawski
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Structural Coupling in Engagement Diplomacy: Case Study on South Korea’s Engagement Coalition for Buying Peace

Sung Chull Kim
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D S V, Disasters, a Systemic Vision

Francisco J. Aceves, Joel Audefroy, Jaime Santos
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What is Life / Living

Theoretical Appraisal of Sustainability Metrics and Empirical Application to an Irish City-region to Assess Current and Future Sustainability

David Anthony Browne
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Information as Communication: The New Eco-Informatics

John J Kineman, K. Anil Kumar
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Living in Hyperscale: Internalization as a Search for Reunification

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx
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Symposium on Economics

Triple Bottom Line: The Economic Systems Infrastructure for a Sustainable and Abundant Service Economy

Art Warmoth
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