Overview

The systems movement is made up of many systems societies as well as of disciplinary researchers and researches, explicitly or implicitly focusing on the subject of systemics, officially introduced in the scientific community fifty years ago. Many researches in different fields have been and continue to be sources of new ideas and challenges for the systems community. To this regard, a very important topic is the one of EMERGENCE. Between the goals for the actual and future systems scientists there is certainly the definition of a general theory of emergence and the building of a general model of it. The goal of this book, is to recall to the systems community an important challenge to be dealt with in the immediate future: the study and characterization of general features of what is commonly qualified as 'emergence', chiefly in complex systems such as biological and cognitive ones. Such a topic was a fundamental one at the very beginning of the systemic movement, and to it the founding fathers, such as Von Bertalanffy, Ashby and Von Foerster, devoted most efforts. In more recent times, however, the interests shifted towards an empirical study of systemic properties characterizing human organizations, and the subject of emergence was partly abandoned. Notwithstanding, the understanding of what is emergence, and of the circumstances which allow for its occurrence within a complex system, is of crucial importance for systemics. Namely all systemic properties -- the ones which allow a system to behave as a whole and not as an aggregate of constituents -- are just emergent properties.

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Author:   Gianfranco Minati ,  Eliano Pessa
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   2.230kg
ISBN:  

9780306473586

ISBN 10:   0306473585
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   31 July 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Opening Lecture.- Synergetics - An Overview.- Modelling.- A First Cellular Automata Model of Red Mullet Behaviour.- Simulations of Forest Fires by Cellular Automata Modelling.- The Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM).- Cognitive Science.- The Emergence of Strategies in Cognitive Development.- Emergence of the Symbolic function.- Synaptic Development as a Variational Problem.- Theoretical Issues in Systemics.- Emergence and Ergodicity: A Line of Research.- Decomposition of Systems.- Generic Properties of Complex Networks.- The Role of Stability Theory in the Great Theories of the XX Century.- A Generalization of Compensation Mechanism in Variable-Structure Systems.- Education.- A Systemic Proposal on the Use of a New Technology as a Learning Tool in School Context.- A System Approach to the Educational Research: Reflection on an Experience.- Evaluating an Educational Course. A Constructivist Approach.- Systemic Approach and Information Technology.- Reactive Navigation Based on Self-Organised Visual Information.- Web Usability: Meaning and Context. Over Data Structures.- Membrane Systems for Computing.- General Systems.- Transforming Leadership through Coalitions: Building the Ethics of Sustainable Development in Globalization.- Meaning Extraction from the Analysis of Video-Registrations of Human Movements.- Multidisciplinary Techniques for Classifying Styles in Narrative Texts: a Preliminary Study.- The Religious Aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the West Bank: Systemic Implications.- Disciplinarity in the Pursuit of Knowledge.- Management.- Distributed Knowledge Management. A Systemic Approach.- The Role of Knowledge Management as a Key Tool for Companies to deal with the Turbulent Environment: A Survey.- Systemic Approaches to Human Care.- Balancing and Compensating Equilibrium Deficits in Beings Provided with Cognitive Processing Capabilities.- Emergence, Individuality, Therapy. A Systemic Vision of Homeopathy.- Systemic Support Therapy for Cancer PatientsDuring and After Chemotherapy.- A Systemic Approach to the Modelling of Epileptic Phenomena.- Synergetics and Systemics.- Some Comments about Determinism and Classical Physics.- What is Emergence?.- Quantum Field Theory and System Theory.

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