Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS

Papers submitted to the 52nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Published: 2008-07-04

2008 Abstracts and Program Book

2008 Abstracts and Program Book

Jennifer Wilby
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2008 Plenary Papers

Confronting Economic Profit with Hierarchy Theory: The Concept of Gain in Ecology

Tim Allen
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LUDWIG VON BERTALANFFY’S EARLY SYSTEM APPROACH

Manfred Drack
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Vertical and Horizontal Scaling Strategies to Avoid Destruction in the Modern Contest

James Paul Gustafson
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Sociable Technologies for Enterprising Sociality

Doug McDavid
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Agent-based Social Simulation

Preservation of Misperceptions – Stability Analysis of Hypergames

Yasuo Sasaki
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Applied Systems and Development

What's the North-Korean Nuclear Weapons' Future?

Hyuk Kihl Kwon
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Korean Politics and Complex Systems Theory

Youn-soo Sim
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Complexity Sciences

Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, Perspectives: The Simple Rules of Complex Conceptual Systems: A Universal Descriptive Grammar of Cognition

Derek A. Cabrera
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Introducing the Research - Entropy Debt: A link to sustainability?

Caroline von Schilling, Debra Straussfogel
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Critical Systems Theory and Practice

Designing Educational Systems

E-teaching - Eroding the Stronghold of Teachers

Gerhard - Chroust
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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
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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
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Dialogue

Business Models and Evolving Economic Paradigms: A Systems Science Approach

David Ing
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Dialogue and Ecological Engineering in Social Systems Design

Gary Metcalf
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Evolutionary Development

Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Behaviour (Global Cultural Evolution)

Marcus Abundis
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BEING VALUES AND BENEFICENT OBSESSIONS: APPLYING THEORIES FROM MASLOW AND ASSAGIOLI TO EVOLUTIONARY GUIDANCE MEDIA

Dana Klisanin
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Evolutionary Ethics: Vision and Values for a World of Insurmountable Opportunities

Alexander Laszlo
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Leaders of Change: Social entrepreneurship and the creation of ecologies of solutions

Alexander Kathia Laszlo
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Co-Creating Living Systems that Thrive on Diversity

Mary Lewis, Bernice Moore, Nancy Southern
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TOWARD THE CONCEPT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD

Enrique Orduñez-Zavala, Isaias José Badillo, Ignacio Peon-Escalante
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Systemics and the Mutually Binding Economy Networks: A Knowledge-based Approach for Sustainable Communities

Honorato C. Teissier-Fuentes
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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
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Foundation of Information Science

A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO STREAMLINING THE CREATION OF WEB-BASED CONTENT

Jed Jones
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Health Systems

A Difficult Balance: Decisions in Health Care

Marilyn A Metcalf
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Measuring the Inequity of a health system: A Systems’ Perspective - Systematic Analytical Mapping Approach

Jean-Paul Ngana
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Hierarchy Theory

The Hard Facts of Soft Social Systems: A General Systems Explanatory Model for Schools and Workplaces

Susan Farr Gabriele
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A Business Model Architecture: Observation Problems And Solutions In Modelling Businesses And Their Networks

Duncan Robert Shaw
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Complexity, global climate change and soil carbon cycling: Factors controlling the temperature response of microbial decomposition

Devin Wixon
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Human Systems Inquiry

CANNIBALIZING CHILDHOOD'S FUTURE AS RISING TO FALLING ROPE

Jeffrey H. Robbins
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Information Systems Design and Information Technology

Digital Democracy and Citizenship as the Democratic Political Systems for the Information Age

Ilsoo Cho
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ONTOLOGY-DRIVEN DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AUDIT

Syohei Ishizu, Andreas Gehrmann, Junya Minegishi, Yoshimitsu Nagai
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A Basic Principle for the Architecture of Computer-based information processing

Roberto R Kampfner
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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
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After-Sales Service Parts Supply Chain System in OEM Telecommunication Firms

Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Mauricio Flores-Cadena, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Ixchel Lina-Reyes
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Technology Acceptance in libraries: a systemic approach

Alvaro Quijano-Solis
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Living Systems Analysis / What is Life and Living

FUNDAMENTALS OF RELATIONAL COMPLEXITY THEORY

John Kineman
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A Service Science Perspective

G.A. Swanson
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Are Ecosystems Alive?

Vincent Vesterby
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Meta-Modeling and Systems Epistemology

SYSTEMS OF THINGS THAT FLOW

Sabah Saleh Al-Fedaghi
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The "Cosmo-Planetary and Terrestrial Meta-Dynamics Systemicity"

Jean-Jacques Blanc
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE THROUGH E-GOVERNANCE FROM BELOW: AN EVALUATION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Janet Judy McIntyre
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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
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ARE ORGANISATIONAL SIZE AND EFFICIENCY ENGAGED?

Ricardo Andres Frias, Ricardo Barrera
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INFORMING THE CONSUMER IS STRENGTHENING THE ECONOMY

Anthony Gabriele
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Evolving to Sustainability

Jon Li
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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
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SYSTEMIC METAMETHODOLOGY FOR METHODS DESIGN

Ignacio Enrique Peon-Escalante, Francisco Javier Aceves, Isaias José Badillo
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BUREAU-PATHOLOGIES IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS:

Carl Slawski
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Research Toward a General Theory of Systems

The System of System Processes

Brian Hilton
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OPERATING PRINCIPLE OF THE UNI-VERSITY

Tom Mandel
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ADAPTING BANATHY’S SYSTEMS VIEW OF EDUCATION TO A SYSTEMS VIEW OF HUMAN SYSTEMS

Lynn Rasmussen
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A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE CONCEPT OF SYSTEM INFORMATION

Mehdi Yahyavi, Mohammad Vaziri Yazdi
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Spirituality and Systems

How To Look Across The Room

John Nathan Ong
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The Traditional Morality of Totalitarianism: Juche Ideology through Hyo

Chul Ho Park
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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
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Growth Strategy and Hierarchy Theory: Emergence of Super-players in the Healthcare Computed Tomography Oligopoly

Jerome GALBRUN, Kyoichi KIJIMA
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Symbiosis as a Metaphor for Sustainability Practice in Human Affairs

Allenna Leonard
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Systems Thinking for Team and Organisational learning Case of Performance Measure Conflicts in a Multinational Supply Chain

Kambiz Maani, Annie Fan
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AUDIT SUPPORT PLUG-IN SYSTEM BY THE USE OF ONTOLOGY MODEL

Junya Minegishi, Andreas Gehrmann, Yoshimitsu Nagai, Syohei Ishizu
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Failure of foresight: Learning from system failures through dynamic model

Takafumi Nakamura, Kyoichi Kijima
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INCORPORATING SYSTEMS THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE PROJECTS USING ACTION RESEARCH BY PRACTITIONERS CONDUCTING ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Shankar Sankaran
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Systems Modeling and Simulation

A VIABLE SYSTEMS MODEL APPROACH TO ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING SYSTEMS

Isaias José Badillo-Piña, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros
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Architecture Case Study in Transformity Factorization

Dennis Glenn Collins
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A SYSTEMS-THEORETICAL REPRESENTATION OF TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR CONNECTIONS

Takehiro Inohara
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Analysis on Trust Game by Reciprocal Agents

Hidetoshi Okayasu
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Ecological/Environmental Systems

Holistic Method for Developing Risk Maps in Rural Zones

Francisco J. Aceves, Joel F Audefroy, Ignacio E Peon
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Negotiating Social Complexity

Ken Bausch
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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
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Emeritus Papers

The Uses of the SystemicCybernetic Approach in Human Affairs: a call for practice

Charles Francois
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2007 Papers

Integrated System Dynamics: Analysis of Policy Options for Tobacco Control in New Zealand

Robert Cavana, Martin Tobias
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greenhouse: An Integrated Knowledge System for Teachers

Grant Wheatley
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Integrating Education and Mental Health Systems

Grant Wheatley
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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
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