Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences | Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the ISSS

Abstract Book and Programme

Abstract and Program Book for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the ISSS, Brisbane, Australia

Jennifer Wilby
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Balancing Individualism and Collectivism

TURNING LEADERSHIP OUTSIDE IN: BOUNDARY SPANNERS’ INTERNAL BOUNDARY WORK

Alice MacGillivray
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Balancing Individualism and Collectivism User centric policy design to enhance evolutionary development and to meet complex needs

Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills
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Critical Systems Theory and Practice

SYSTEMIC EVALUATION OF COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMMES

Jeff Lawrence Foote, Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Maria Hepi
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SCOPING A SYSTEMS-BASED METHOD FOR ORGANISATIONAL EVALUATION

Amanda Gregory
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Applying Multi-Methodology Systems Theory to Project Management

Tim Haslett, Shankar Sankaran
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Decision Simulation Technique (DST) as a scanning tool for exploring and explicating sustainability issues in transport decision making

Sara Lise Jeppesen
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Design Theory for Collaborative Technologies: Electronic Discourse in Group Decision

James Sheffield
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USING CRITICAL SYSTEMS THINKING TO FOSTER VIRTUOUS CYCLES OF SUSTAINABILITY AND LIVEABILITY: A PROPOSAL FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONERS

Tanzi Smith
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THE NEED FOR EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES IN SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION: TWO “INTENTIONAL” ARGUMENTS

Jorge Ivan Velez-Castiblanco
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Cybernetics

A SOCIOCYBERNETIC MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL SYSTEMS

Guohua Bai
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THE GENERAL THEORY OF META-DYNAMICS SYSTEMICITY

Jean-Jacques BLANC
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The Application of Stafford Beer’s Viable Systems Model to Strategic Planning

John Stephens, Tim Haslett
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IN SEARCH OF A VIABLE SYSTEM MODEL FOR AFTER-SALES SPARE PARTS SERVICE IN TELECOM FIRMS

Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Mauricio Flores-Cadena, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Isaias Badillo-Piña
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Evolutionary Development

AN EVOLUTIONARY NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM THROUGH KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Elvira Avalos
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SYSTEMS SCIENCE AS A SYSTEM OF KNOWLEDGE:AN EXPLORATION RESEARCH OF ITS STRUCTURE

Isaias José Badillo-Piña, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Ignacio Enrique Peon-Escalante
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TOWARD THE EVOLUTION OF THE TOURISM’S CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM

Abraham Briones-Juarez, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros
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MODEL OF REGIONAL POLICY STRATEGY IN SUSTAINABLE IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT

Eriyatno Eriyatno, Sjofjan Bakar
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Foundation of Information Science

DATA, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE: A SEMIOTIC-SYSTEM’S VIEW FOR DATABASE DESIGN

David William Low
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Hierarchy Theory

GETTING (EMPIRICALLY) BACK TO(WARDS) (PRE-)(EXISTENTIAL) BASICS

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx
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Fostering Innovation System of a Firm with Hierarchy Theory: Narratives on Emergent Clinical Solutions in Healthcare

Jerome GALBRUN, Kyoichi KIJIMA
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Hierarchy Theory and Socio-Environmental Ethics

Brian John Hilton
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Health Policy Management, Methodological Issues

Jennifer Wilby
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Information Systems Design and Information Technology

LOCAL E-GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND: DIGITAL STRATEGY, SOCIAL INCLUSION AND LIVEABILITY

Kay Fielden, Pam Malcolm
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The Architecture of Computer-based information Processing and the Effectiveness and Adaptability of Systems

Roberto R Kampfner
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PLANNING MODEL FOR CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT OF THE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN MEXICO

CIRILO GABINO LEON, CIRO DAVID LEON, EDUARDO VEGA
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USES AND GRATIFICATION THEORY IN VIRTUAL NETWORK ANLYSIS

Ann Lind
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COMMUNICATION – A PLATFORM FOR MUTUAL MESSAGE EXCHANGE

Bertil Lind
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Medical and Health Systems

ANALYZING BENEFITS AND RISKS IN MEDICINE, TO WHOM AND FOR WHOM?

Marilyn A Metcalf
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WHICH SYSTEMS THINKING FRAMEWORK FOR THE ON-GOING IMPROVEMENT IN THE OPERATION OF THE TOWNSVILLE SUPER CLINIC?

Richard Monypenny
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Achieving a Sustainable Health System - A Conceptual Framework for Holistic Decision Making

Jean-Paul Ngana
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Monetary Systems

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP POLICY: SYSTEM APPROACH TO MICROFINANCING

BS Kusmuljono
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS A WAY OF SYSTEMIC BEHAVIOR AND INNOVATION LEADING OUT OF THE CURRENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS

Matjez Mulej, Stane Božičnik, Vojko Potočan, Zdenka Ženko, Anita Hrast, Tjaša Štrukelj
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Organisational Transformation and Social Change

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT REQUIRES AN INTEGRATING DISCIPLINE TO ADDRESS ITS UNIQUE PROBLEMS – DESIGN THINKING

Rui Helder Dos Santos Martins
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POLITICS, SOCIETY AND SINERGY AT COMPLEX ENVIRONMENT

Ricardo Andrés Frias, Tariana Maia Gessaga
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THE VALUE EQUATION

Jorge Ivan Mendez-Diaz, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Gilberto J. Vazquez-Espinosa
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COMPLEX MODEL OF A TRANSDISCIPLINARY ACTION-RESEARCH PROGRAM ON THE ENVIRONMENT, THROUGH INTERINSTITUTIONAL NETWORKS

Ignacio E Peon-Escalante, Claudia Hernandez
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Towards a feminist-systems theory – an overview of method, emerging results and implications for practice.

Anne Stephens
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Systems thinking: the key to survival

Graeme MacDonald Taylor
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WORLD VIEW AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: OHS AS A MODEL

Susanne Tepe, John Barton
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Livability and Sustainability Are They Contradictory ? A Social Organizational Perspective On Participatory Action Research Oriented Response

Tamar Zohar Harel
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Research Toward a General Theory of Systems

A Case for System-Specific Modeling

Gary S. Metcalf
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Socio-Ecological Systems

Systems Thinking in the Forestry Value Chain – A Case Study of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme

Tom Adams, Robert Y Cavana
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Regional governance in rural Australia: An emergent phenomenon of the quest for liveability and sustainability?

Jennifer Bellamy, A.J. Brown
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SYSTEMIC REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT - A SYSTEMS THINKING APPROACH

Robert Faggian, Victor Andres Sposito
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BIOBASED LUBRICANTS: A VIABILITY STUDY

Adam Ing
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The Carrying Capacity Imperative: Assessing regional carrying capacity methodologies for sustainable land-use planning

Murray Craig Lane
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Surviving the Economy

Jon Li
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SUSTAINABLE WATER ALLOCATION FOR FAMILIES, FISH AND FARMING: A WICKED PROBLEM OR A WICKED SOLUTION?

Brett Painter
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Spirituality and Systems

Towards a Systems based Spiritual Philosophy for the 21st century

Victor Ronald David MacGill
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Toward a Spiritual System in Organization through Spiritual Leadership

Hamid Reza Qasemi
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Systemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises

CRISIS! JOBLESS AND SMALL BUSINESS: DANGER AND HOPE

Ricardo Barrera
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The importance of Systems Thinking and Practice for creating biosphere reserves as "learning laboratories for sustainable development"

Nam Cao Nguyen, Ockie J.H. Bosch, Kambiz E. Maani
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Toward the Living Systems Analysis of Two Korean Relations

Youn-soo Sim
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Problematizing problem-solving methods for exploring the management of social enterprises

Jae Yu
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Systems Applications in Business and Industry

Workplace Bullying in American Organizations: The Path from Recognition to Prohibition

Teresa A Daniel
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ENVISIONING INNOVATION IN SERVICE SYSTEMS: INDUCTION, ABDUCTION AND DEDUCTION

David Ing
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A methodology to prolong system lifespan and its application to IT systems

Takafumi Nakamura, Kyoichi Kijima
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Macro-cycles of change: learning from an organisation's history

John Molineux
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Improving the ‘Cyber Lemons’ Problem with the Counteracting Mechanism in Chinese E-Commerce Market: Based on the Data from Taobao.com (China)

Yong Pan
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SYSTEMS THINKING, RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY CHAINS

Ximeng Sun, Ray Collins
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Systems Biology and Evolution

PHYTOREMEDIATION POTENTIAL OF RAPHANUS SATIVUS (L.), BRASSICA JUNCEA (L.) AND TRITICUM AESTIVUM (L.) FOR COPPER CONTAMINATED SOIL

Dr. Gunjan Garg, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Kataria
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Systems and Mental Health

The Decline of Astrology: A Symbol of Man’s Disconnection with Nature, Self and the Cosmos

Zheljana Peric
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Systems Modeling and Simulation

Training and Supporting First Responders by Mixed Reality Environments

Gerhard Chroust, Stefan Schönhacker, Karin Rainer, Markus Roth, Peter Ziehesberger
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FRACTAL ANALYSIS OF EPILEPSY

Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Teresa Ivonne Contreras-Troya, Cinthya Ivonne Mota-Hernández, Beatriz Trueba-Rios
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Design of Fuzzy Neural Network Based Multi-Variables Controller for Manipulators

Yoshishige Sato
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What is Life and Living

RELATIONAL THEORY AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING

John Kineman
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Robert Rosen’s Anticipatory Systems Theory: The Art and Science of Thinking Ahead

Judith Rosen
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2008 Papers

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

Jim Gustafson
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A Basic Principle for the Architecture of Computer-based information processing

Roberto R Kampfner
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Leaders of Change: Social entrepreneurship and the creation of ecologies of solutions

Kathia Castro Laszlo
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Design for an Assessment of Gaining Access to the International Interoperability Systems in the Bid for Secession

Leonie Marilynne Solomons
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ENTROPY DEBT: A LINK TO SUSTAINABILITY?

Caroline von Schilling, Debra Straussfogel
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The System and Control Theory in the Vipassana Meditation of the Noble Eightfold Path as taught by Buddha -understanding meditation with the Taichi Yin-Yang system in modern terminologies

Thomas Sui Leung WONG, Jotin KHISTY, Timothy A GOLDEN, E C Yan HUANG
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