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Militancia partidista en súper 8: la política de medios del Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores
Authors: Mantecón Álvaro Vázquez
Published: July 2020

This article analyses Super 8 movies filmed by the Partido Mexicano de los Trabajadores (PTM; Mexican Worker’s Party) during 1970s and part of the 1980s. The PTM was one of the few left winged political parties that did not benefit from Mexico’s 1977 political reform (also known as LOPPE, acronym for Ley de Organizaciones Políticas y Procesos Electorales, Law of Political Organizations and Electoral Processes) that normalized the political life of several left wing parties. My hypothesis in this article is that the political reform also demobilized and dislocated existing forms of resistance against the system. Due to the PMT’s exclusion from this political reform, the analysis of its film productions can help us understand different forms of cultural activism (not only filmmaking) practised in this period by left wing militants as a form of cultural and political resistance.
A Memória e a Era Digital
Authors: Cádima Francisco Rui
Published: July 2020

O digital expandiu as possibilidades da memória e as suas tecnologias para um plano que nos suscita algumas questões e uma primeira refl exão face ao seu paradoxo essencial. Em síntese, a incerteza que nos propomos discutir neste artigo prende-se com essa contradição que se coloca face a uma mnemotécnica que tanto nos garante essa expansão da memória como o seu fechamento ou as suas disfunções. Um paradoxo entre o arquivo aumentado e a impossibilidade de memória. A dualidade memória vs. esquecimento regressa assim num contexto tecnológico mais complexo, com implicações radicais na perceção da política contemporânea (falsas memórias, câmaras de eco), nos media (pós-verdade, factos alternativos) economia (ideologia do clickbait, desmemoriação) ou no apagamento da própria história (perda do arquivo da web). A memória vertiginosa que nos traz o digital é assim também uma espécie de não-memória.
O meme como estratégia de marketing institucional em redes sociais digitais
Authors: Araújo Eliane Pawlowski de Oliveira , Paula Claudio Paixão Anastácio de , Silva Neto Jose Ricardo Da , Dias Débora De Almeida , Ferreira Camila Pawlowski
Published: July 2020

O meme, fenômeno cultural no século XXI, é caracterizado como uma forma de comunicação coletiva, paródica e baseada em uma recriação excessiva que se espalha de modo viral. Essa forma de expressão, por seu alcance, foi apropriada pelas organizações como modo inovador de divulgar mensagens, vender produtos, serviços ou ideias. Considerando a importância de se estar em destaque, estas características são um fator relevante para as organizações porque, em um cenário de excesso informacional, ser acessado pelo maior número possível de pessoas é estratégico. Contudo, apesar da possibilidade de sua utilização no ambiente organizacional, existe a necessidade do meme se revestir de uma imagem institucional, o que requer a observância de certos quesitos para reforçar a marca da instituição sem ferir aspectos éticos. Neste sentido, o presente artigo buscou destacar uma atividade de marketing institucional desenvolvida por um grupo de pesquisa que utilizou o meme como estratégia de divulgação devido ao seu potencial simbólico. O resultado obtido na campanha realizada se traduziu em um aumento exponencial do número de seguidores da página destacando-se das demais postagens do grupo na rede social digital utilizada.
Jornalismo radiofónico e inovação
Authors: Bonixe Luis
Published: July 2020

A migração para as plataformas digitais gerou um conjunto de novos desafios para os média jornalísticos que se situam ao nível das suas rotinas, linguagens, deontologia e formação dos seus profissionais. A rádio portuguesa de informação não é, naturalmente, alheia a este contexto e, impulsionada por estes desafios, tem adotado várias estratégias no domínio da inovação nos média. Essas práticas situam-se ao nível da criação de novos produtos mediáticos e da utilização de ferramentas que não integram o código expressivo original do meio radiofónico, baseado apenas no som. Através da análise da cobertura de três eventos mediáticos, que se apresentam como terrenos para a experiência e adoção de novas práticas nos média, procuramos perceber de que modo a Rádio Renascença, TSF e Antena 1 criaram novas formas de contar estórias (storytelling) e geraram novas narrativas e produtos jornalísticos que configurem modelos e práticas inovadoras na rádio portuguesa.
Genealogía del populismo: crisis orgánicas como condición de posibilidad del populismo de izquierdas
Authors: Martín Merchán Javier
Published: July 2020

El populismo no parece un fenómeno monolítico. Las circunstancias en que deja de tener representación marginal y alcanza un poder considerable varían en función de ciertas condiciones previas. Y, dado que surge fruto de realidades diferentes en sociedades distintas, también la materialización de este fenómeno adoptará carices ideológicos opuestos. Así, este estudio sostiene que el triunfo del populismo de izquierdas viene precedido de una crisis orgánica. Tomando como objeto de estudio los populismos de Chávez y Tsipras, se sugiere que ambos llegaron al poder cabalgando sobre una población empobrecida; la recesión económica minaría las bases del orden democrático, fomentando el rechazo popular hacia las instituciones responsables del descalabro y liquidando el orden de legitimidades establecido. La crisis orgánica se tornaría inminente: el deseo de refundar un orden decrépito inunda la sociedad y el populismo de izquierdas aparece para arengar al pueblo contra el no pueblo y capitalizar electoralmente la situación.
The Rapes Committed against the Yazidi Women: a Genocide?
Authors: Castellano San José Paula
Published: July 2020

Rape has been used as a tool of war throughout the history of mankind. With the establishment of the International Criminal Court, rape was included in the Rome Statute, being internationally recognized as a war crime, a crime against humanity and a means to commit genocide. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in its war to establish the caliphate, has carried out a campaign of sexual violence against women of religious minorities such as the Yazidi. This article examines the evolution of the definition of rape in International Criminal Law and applies the current definition to the crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidi. The study assesses the elements of the actus reus of genocide and considers that the actions carried out by the Islamic State towards the Yazidi could qualify as a genocide by means of rape.
El sistema de partidos norirlandés tras los Acuerdos de Viernes Santo
Authors: Villaverde Rivero Jaime
Published: July 2020

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el modo en que los Acuerdos de Viernes Santo, firmados en 1998 y que culminaban el proceso de paz que ponía fin a la violencia sufrida en la región durante tres décadas, han afectado a la configuración del sistema de partidos norirlandés. Trataremos de validar la hipótesis de que los acuerdos han favorecido a aquellos partidos situados en los extremos. Sin embargo, también trataremos de demostrar cómo dicho auge de los partidos situados en el extremo ha venido acompañado de una moderación de sus postulados. Para ello, analizaremos el impacto del modelo institucional en tal proceso. Llevaremos a cabo este análisis desde la perspectiva teórica del consociacionalismo.
A Non-standard Society Is Getting New Clothes: Evidencing Knowledge Gaps with C-K Design Innovation Theory
Authors: Corsi Patrick
Published: July 2020

Emergence of post-industrial societies is found on knowledge as a primary resource. The paper evidences changes from previous society’s phases of functioning and shows ways for centering knowledge in post-industrial times. Concepts are reformulated with C-K design innovation Theory, fostering the way towards transdisciplinarity.The case of generating co-working spaces illustrates knowledge absorption and networkbased intensities, opening avenues for altering working paradigms that shift collaborative experiences. This is core to the advent of fully-fledged Knowledge societies (KS) where ternary models develop, socio-economic molds spiral up qualitative growth, thus departing from past dual fragmentations.
Changing the cultural model to create a new development dynamic in old industrial regions
Authors: Dethier Jean-Louis
Published: July 2020

Thanks to coal and iron, Wallonia was from 19th till the second half of 20th century one of the most prosperous regions of Europe. Heavy industries have created thousand of jobs,however the hard pay and working conditions that very strong Trade Unions fought and succeeded to improve. This has deeply printed its history and the culture of its population and leaders.
How to manage the development of complex organizations… and beyond
Authors: Di Luzio Maria Chiara
Published: July 2020

The article starts with a synthesis of traditional Theory of organization.This vision of the organization is inspired by the classical view of world, and we use to summarized this theory the “metaphor of the machine”. As gears of a machine, people are treated as systems of skills, which can be analyzed and used to achieve organizational goals. This vision is too primitive due to the fact that it is impossible to design procedures that prescribe all behaviors and measure in an absolute manner the ability of each person. People have an undeniable autonomy that make them create a so called informal organization which autonomously evolves.“To Manage” does not mean to make an organization function. Instead it means to manage the evolution process it-self. We have developed a methodology to govern the self-evolution processes of informal organizations. We present a specific case history in one of the major Italian metallurgical companies, to increase the level of safety and improve management of the human factors.
A systemic approach of the vulnerability in the post-industrial society: the case of the bee colonies collapse disorder
Authors: Guillerme Sylvie
Published: July 2020

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Organizational resilience a new paradigm for the knowledge society
Authors: Koninckx Guy
Published: July 2020

Our organizations operate in an environment of turbulence and crises. Loss of marks and sense constitutes part of everyday life for our organizations. Futhermore, it should be noted that in recent decades social security systems covering many areas have been established. Currently uncertainty becomes a certainty. How to bounce back in such circumstances? What happens to the paradigms that underlie the functioning of organizations? Which functions do they play? Which paradigms are mediated by resilience? What is the added value of resilience? Which perspectives for the future?
Growth and Development: A possible systemic understanding
Authors: Minati Gianfranco
Published: July 2020

Approaches for representing quantitative processes of growth for single systems are considered focussing especially upon logistic growth processes. Attention is then extended to processes of growth for complex systems such as Multiple Systems comprising components belonging to more than one system. Complex system populations of growth processes are considered in an attempt to gain an understanding of their growth. We consider in this regard various possible approaches for understanding development and its being an emergent property. We present some possible ways of understanding emergent development which can not be suitably considered as being reducible to the properties of sequences of processes of growth.
Agency Mindset Theory
Authors: Yolles Maurice , Fink Gerhard
Published: July 2020

A culturally based socio-cognitive agency generic model is developed. The agency has a normative personality with an values/beliefs indicated by its formative traits. These can take bi-polar epistemic values (“enantiomers”). These may be combined together, giving 8 different cognitive types that are personality type mind-sets. These types are influenced by the culture and the social environment that the agency is bound to. The traits can be used to explain the what, why and how of dynamic agency behaviour in complex situations.
Local versus global & individual versus whole competition between & within living systems ARMSADA emergence and breaking
Authors: Bricage Pierre
Published: July 2020

Whatever its level of organization, anyalive system,to survive ('eating and not being eaten') and live on, has 'to be lucky' for 'to be at the right place at the right time'. Formed by embedments and juxtapositions of pre-existing systems in anewendophysiotope(ENDO),itisapartofafoodchain:iteatsandiseaten.Soonorlateitisimpossiblenottobeeaten.Man is not an exception. The modularity of alive systems allows both a partial location and a global recycling of matter andenergy.Thepleiotropyofthestructuresandfunctions,allowing 'to make of a stone several knocks', is a mechanism of exaptation of a new Whole.The agoantagonistic relations balance, within any ecoexotope (EXO), ends soon or late with the disappearance of predators and a reduction of biodiversity.The merging into Associations for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages (ARMSADA) allows the emergence of a new biodiversity.
Taking handicap into account: Systemic features
Authors: Farfal Patrick
Published: July 2020

Because of many features of handicap, such as the number of actors and interactions, the complexity of the field, handicap must be considered from a system point of view, and dealt with as any system. That makes it possible to build a comprehensive response to the question of the inclusion and full citizenship of people with disabilities, better than some fragmentary solutions often proposed. The paper emphasizes relationships inside the disability field and external relationships with the environment, namely valid people in everyday life and workfield; the consideration of those external relationships leads to the compensation of handicap for a better accessibility to buildings, transports, care, communication, and soon; unexpected spin-offs of that compensation on the whole of population can be observed.
The project : How to deal with coherence and incoherence
Authors: Piecq Andrée , Lambert Claude
Published: July 2020

The project fits logically into an out of balance. From a systemic point of view, the project proposed to move structure of the system towards another structural form of the system. A change in structure of the system is called a mutation and it seems as an incoherence. In contrast, if the structure is not changed, but only the observed elements are changed, this modification is called arrangement. It operates within the system as a return to balance without changing structure and it seems coherent.If a new structure emerges when the project is complete, the emergence of its final form appears with a lot of unpredictability, uncertainty.The project is endangering the balance of the system, which could seem inconsistent. From this imbalance will emerge a totality whose purpose will take shape.The project is a shock that will produce a structural bifurcation. A linear analysis of the evolution of the project is often illusory.To give coherence it is necessary to cross the levels of reality and prepare for approach steering.The organization is a complex system and its change is considered as a meta-system that requires a meta-structure. That is to say, it must reach a meta-finality.
The time of the metropolis: Understanding urban and systemic dynamics
Authors: Vermeylen Paul
Published: July 2020

How come that some EU cities are often presented as examples and monopolize the best positions in various rankings? They act not according to models, but according to a method which is mostly similar to Edgar Morin’s concept of auto-eco-organization. Theirs actions are based on values: they are agile creative, supportive, sustainable. So how do they implement those guidelines ?
De la méfiance à la défiance: Nos démocraties souffrent-elles d'un déficit de confiance ?
Authors: Abba Hachimi
Published: July 2020

La gouvernance des Etats modernes traverse une crise jusque-là peu connue. Les scandales en tous genres (politico-financiers, judiciaires, religieux etc.) ont contribué à mettre de la distance entre les gouvernants et les gouvernés. On est passé de la méfiance(doute sur la fiabilité , peur de me fier) à la défiance( véritablement une confrontation entre les deux parties).La confiance est devenue donc centrale dans cette relation désormaisconflictuelle.L'objectif de cet papier est une contribution à la compréhension du phénomène de confiance en général et, de son importance dans la viabilité de la démocratie moderne.Comment ce phénomène de confiance, si vital dans les relations humaines et sociales, a-t-il connu une aussi profonde érosionconduisant de nos jours,à la confrontation voire à la violence: les manifestations autrefois pacifiques deviennent un véritable champ de bataille, par exemple. Les gouvernés se contentaient jadis de douter de la parole politique en manifestant trèspeu d'intérêt à aller voter (baisse progressive des taux de participation à chaque grande élection); ces dernières années cette parole est purement et simplement rejetée,la classe politique avec. Accepter d'être gouverner devient alors une véritable gageure.La confiance ne sera pas présentée comme une solution dans ce papier,mais plutôt comme une réponse possible à la réduction de la complexité sociale etpolitiqueque nous vivons.
La démocratie au XXIe siècle leurre, mythe ou réalité ?
Authors: Piecq Andrée
Published: July 2020

Cet article est une tentative de soumettre la démocratie occidentale a une radiographie systémique à partir d'élément d'observation de la démocratie Athénienne jusqu'à la démocratie actuelle. Cette tentative part de l'analyse des contextes, des membres, des différents type de démocratie pour élaborer des hypothèses au niveau des règles mythiques et des mythes. La conclusion tentera de répondre à la question:la démocratie au XXIe siècle est elle un leure, un mythe ou une réalité ?
Une analyse a travers un modele systemique sui generis 'the three dimensional spiral of sens'
Authors: Aparicio Miriam
Published: July 2020

On aborde la situation historico-sociale de la formation de formateurs en Argentine et des aspects qui sont à l’origine de ce que j’appellerai une identité affaiblie qui traverse ce système de formation et les formateurs eux-mêmes. Cela nous donne l’occasion d’analyser le mouvement auto-soutenu entre la dimension macrosociale, méso-organisationnelle et micro-individuelle ; feed-back ceci qui est à la base du modèle systémique sui-generisde l’auteure, intitulé « La spiral tridimensionnel du sens » (The Three Dimensional Spiral of Sens, 2015). Le même est fondé sur les résultats de plus de 30 ans de recherches en terrain avec différentes populations. Ici nous travaillons en deux instances : d’abord, nous soulignons les faits historiques marquants de la formation des enseignants – qui est inspirée sur le système français – avec ces zones grises, liées à une identité affaiblie au niveau structurel et méso-organisationnelle. Dans un second temps, nous faisons référence à quelques résultats de la dernière étude comparative franco-argentine (2014-2016), faite avec des enseignants des IUFM. La recherche a été, notamment, qualitative en utilisant la technique des évocations hiérarchisées, parmi d’autres. A travers cette technique nous avons observé quelles sont les représentations sociales (partagées) des enseignants français et argentins qui entrent dans le cœur de la problématique (nœuds abordés) et quelles sont placées dans les périphéries, c’est-à-dire, les moins importantes. Nous avons distingué plusieurs dimensions, catégories et sous-catégories à l’intérieur de chaque nœud. Les convergences et divergences trouvés montrent bien l’influence ou l’impact du plan macro-socio-économique et politique sur le plan méso-institutionnel et le plan micro : conceptions et trajectoires professionnelles des enseignants et facteurs/dimensions associés à leurs identités et au niveau de professionnalisation.
Systems approach to document management
Authors: Assimakopoulos Nikitas A. , Miaris Alexandros , Sakellaris Elias
Published: July 2020

The scientific field of Document Management within companies and organizations is very important and in this paper is delivered a systemic approach in both theoretical and empirical level. The study consists of two stages; first is the theoretical analysis of document management and systems and second is the empirical approach by developing and implementing specific strategic and operational planning in a real document management project. In the first stage the definitions of Administration (Management) and Document and the approach the Document Management theories are analyzed. Subsequently, the concept of document management, highlighting the benefits and other elements which made it historically significant and operationally necessary are presented. In the second stage a specific document management project is presented aiming to create an electronic library using document management systems (DMS). Examples of working libraries are illustrated, using DMS in a national and international level. The strategic planning, SWOT & PESTEL analysis and the operational planning of the project is explained. Additionally, the project management plan follows, showing its four stages, study, design, implementation and delivery. Specifically in step two, the stakeholders of the project and their relationships with the using the Design and Control Systemic Methodology (DCSYM) are depicted and the implementation of the project through the development of dynamic simulation of an intelligible model using VENSIM software, representing the main production process followed by a detailed model presentation. The alternative design is projected, given that the project could not be completed with the characteristics given, followed by the development and implementation of the research. The aim here is the assumption of the projects’problems by the stakeholders contribution and the determination of them in the management structure level.
The role of systems theory in political science: The case of unemployment in Spain
Authors: Parra-Luna Francisco
Published: July 2020

This paper will be consecrated to the problem of unemployment in Spain from the perspective of Systems Theory. But first I would like to emphasize, in a very schematic form, some of the possibilities and advantages of Systems Theory in Political Science. The purpose is only to suggest that the application of some theoretical and methodological principles of Systems Theory could contribute significantly to the development and efficiency of political systems. Let us say for the moment that the endevour requires to fulfill two main prerequisites: first to adopt the basic systemic principle which is to select the essential variablesfor any given piece of research within a polity; and second, to discover the ”system of values” that underlines this polity. To ignore these two fundamental prerequisites should be in principle theoretical and methodologically criticized as we hope to show when we study the unemployment problem in Spain. The application of the model could reduce unemployment from the current 17,1 % until some 12% in the period of 4 years.
Si le concept de crise est concevable, alors…
Authors: Le Moigne Jean-Louis
Published: July 2020

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Discontinuités des processus de conception architecturale : Crises de la représentation ?
Authors: Claeys Damien
Published: July 2020

Confronté aux limites perceptives de la conscience, l'être humain développe naturellement pour agir une configuration augmentée, évolutive et opérationnelle du réel, un réel qui peut alors être qualifié d'augmenté. En science comme dans la vie quotidienne, la saisie du réel dépend de l'observateur, des outils d'observation utilisés, des unités de mesure définies, du cadrage et du rythme des observations. Ces conditions instaurent des seuils perceptifs puisque l'observateur projette une succession d'états discontinus sur un phénomène à priori continu. À priori, les processus de conception et de représentation d'un projet d'architecture semblent continus, mais lorsque les mécanismes de la computation du corps, de la cogitation de l'esprit et de la représentation sont observés plus finement, il semble qu'ils soient plutôt discontinus. De là, pour le rendre intelligible, l'architecte structure l'espace de conception en tentant de maîtriser les inévitables discontinuités instaurées entre les différentes représentations du projet. Qu'il représente une succession d'états discrets ou un unique état suspendu, il compense le décalage dynamique entre réel et réalités affectant sa conscience. Lorsque l'architecte conçoit un projet d'architecture, il établit des stratégies de modélisation pour le rendre présent, pour le rendre compréhensible de manière à pouvoir travailler sur lui. Le processus qu'il oriente passe inévitablement par la réduction de la complexité du réel pris en compte et par l'usage d'outils de représentation. Sommes-nous face à une crise de la représentation en architecture due à l'irruption des outils numériques, ou devons-nous mettre volontairement et constamment en crise nos méthodes de représentation ?
A new pretopological way of identifying spreaders in propagation diffusion phenomena
Authors: Laborde Julio , Bui Marc
Published: July 2020

In a world that's increasingly connected, many crises are related to propagation phenomena where we need to either repress the spreading (e.g. epidemics, computer viruses, fake news...) or try to accelerate it (e.g. the diffusion of a new anti-virus patch). A good understanding of such phenomena involves a knowledge of both the structure of the whole system and the specifics of the transmission process. The standard way to deal with the former has been through a characterization of the structure by the use of networks, where nodes are the components of the system where the propagation occurs, and links exist between them if there's a possibility of transmission from one component to the other. This allows to identify the super-spreaders (i.e. components that diffuse in a disproportionally large amount) as nodes with certain particular network properties. Here we propose the use of pretopology as a framework to characterize the structure of a system, as well as a new pretopological metric for the identification of super-spreaders. Since the metric can easily be transformed into an equivalent network metric, it is easy to compare its performance with some of the classical network indices of node importance. The relevance of the metric is tested by the use of some standard agent-based models of epidemics and opinion dynamics. Finally, a pretopological model of opinion diffusion is also proposed and studied.
Systemic Behavior via Social Responsibility as a Way to Peace and Development
Authors: Mulej Matjaž
Published: July 2020

Systemic behavior is here to overcome the ancient human one-sided and short-term behavior by holistic approach based on interdependence of cooperating professionals, who are mutually different. The new way toward this end was passed only two years after the surfacing of the current global socio-economic crisis that results from neoliberal monopolies. Social responsibility is everyone's (new) responsibility for his/her influence on society on the basis of practicing interdependence as a precondition for requisite holism. Consequences of millennia of the human practice of one-sidedness and short-term criteria of behavior make social responsibility now unavoidable: the 3rd World War is here/pending rather than peace and development. Both interdependence and (requisite) holism are exposed by both systems theory and ISO 26000 on social responsibility. The –unfortunate and dangerous – situation in society is well clarified by the fact that ISO 26000 was passed only as an advisory rather than obligatory international standard; this means that peace is considered less important than companies’ profit, while peace is a crucial precondition for profit/benefit resulting from development and well-being.
A System Dynamics Model to Identify the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Crime Rate and on Security Sensation in European Societies
Authors: Zoannos Nikolaos , Antoniadis Rallis , Assimakopoulos Nikitas A.
Published: July 2020

Modern society is a Complicated System, in which the interaction between its essential parts is affected in a daily basis by: (a) the Economic Crisis, (b) the Feeling of Xenophobia, (c) the Interweaving of the Political System and (d) the Degeneration of Human Interpersonal Relationships. Two important facts that have been excessively observed in the European Union over the last few years are the increase of Crime Rate, and at the same time the decrease of Security Sensation. The model that we have developed simulates the way that particular social phenomena such as: (a) the taxation, (b) the reduction of the State Expenditure on Equipment and (c) the conflicts of interest caused by the Economic Crisis, affect the Crime Rate. Therefore, this study can be the starting point for identifying other social phenomena that should be taken into account in the Strategic Plan of Crime and Violence treatment in member countries of the European Union.
Domain-Driven Design and Soft Systems Methodology as a Framework to Avoid Software Crises
Authors: Assimakopoulos Nikitas A. , Papaioannou Panagiotis
Published: July 2020

Crisis is considered to be an issue concerning complex systems like societies, organizations or even families. It can be defined as the situation in which the system functions poorly, the causes of the dysfunction are not immediately identified and immediate decisions need to be made. The type and the duration of a crisis may require different kinds of decision making. In a long-term crisis, when system changes may be required, the active participation of the affected people may be more important than the power and dynamics of the leadership. Software crises, in their their contemporary form as oganizational maffunctions, can still affect the viability of any organization. In this contribution we highlight the systemic aspects of a crisis, the complexity behind that and the role of systemic methodologies to explore its root causes and to design effective interventions. Our focus is on modeling as a means to simplify the complexity of the regarded phenomena and to build a knowledge consensus among stakeholders. Domain-Driven Design comes from software as an approach to deal with complex projects. It is based on models exploration in a creative collaboration between domain practitioners and solution providers. SSM is an established methodology for dealing with wicked situations. It incorporates the use of models and, along with Domain-Driven Design and other systemic methodologies can be employed to develop a common perception of the situation and a common language between interested parties in a crisis situation.
Les parcours de transition d'Ungersheim : Être aspiré par le chaos des crises ou emprunter des trajectoires de résiliences
Authors: Koninckx Guy
Published: July 2020

Une lecture systémique des événements auxquels la commune d’Ungersheim a été confrontée donne accès à une compréhension du fonctionnement de cette collectivité en situation de crise. Les éléments des contextes géographiques et historiques situent le cadre dans lequel elle évolue au cours des vingt dernières années. Des stratégies mises en place par Jean-Claude Mensch, maire d’Ungersheim, ont permis d’opérer une succession d’ajustements. Ceux-ci ont contribué à faire échec et mat à l’effondrement au bénéfice d’une mutation. La cohérence entre la vision et les actions initiées ainsi qu’une règle mythique enracinée apparaissent constituer un élément déterminant, même en situation de turbulences. Ungersheim permet de découvrir les voies de résilience d’une collectivité. Cette commune s’inscrit dans le mouvement de la transition initiée par Hopkins et propose des voies non pas pour échapper aux crises mais plutôt pour les affronter.
Ré-enchantons le monde
Authors: Finné Guy
Published: July 2020

La société actuelle ne contribue pas à une qualité de vie optimale. Un changement est inéluctable pour répondre à l'enjeu planétaire de la survie de l'humanité dans notre contexte d'anthropocène. Cette présentation propose une méthodologie systémique d'émergence –énaction- d'une utopie humanologique dans laquelle l'Humain prime les considérations financières. À titre d'exemple 3 mesures'simples' sont examinées et l'observation de leurs interactions est proposée pour vérifier si elles peuvent générer une société plus empathique.
Systems and Causal Loop Thinking in Medicine: From Healthcare Delivery to Healthcare Policy Making
Authors: Theocharopoulos Charalampos
Published: July 2020

The human body is regarded as a system of high complexity, not only because it is consisted of millions of interrelated and interdependent functional units -the cells-, but because it is also an evolving system. It changes over time, initially to achieve the full growth of organs and bones but subsequently as a response to environmental factors to retain its vital internal indexes stable, to achieve homeostasis. In this context, the in depth understanding of the connections between these indexes that drive the dynamics of the system is crucial. Yet, malfunctions occur and their accumulation causes diseases, which are regarded as internal crises that due to tight relations between the different organ systems, affect various body parts. The application of systems and causal loop thinking while combating diseases is examined and the need to treat not the body part that is ailing, but the patient as a system is underscored through examples of diseases. The importance of examining the risk and trigger factors of diseases from a systemic perspective is also highlighted through examples from the medical literature. The patient itself is viewed in the context of the Swiss Cheese Model and the causal agents that lead to a system failure and patient harm are examined, as well as ways of strengthening the healthcare system in order to minimize the vulnerabilities and the possibility of failures, with particular regard at modelling doctor-patient relations as Paskian Conversations. The Triumvirate of Public Health concept is discussed as a valuable practice in the healthcare policy making sector, regarding both top-down and bottom-up modes.
La gestion des flux dans le secteur de santé : La systémique est-elle le remède ?
Authors: Barouni Khouloud
Published: July 2020

L'hôpital est considéré comme un espace à haute fréquentation surtout avec la propagation des différentes pathologies chroniques ; diabète, hypertension, cancer... dues aux continuelles mutations sociales, culturelles, économiques, politiques et technologiques. L'importante fréquentation au sein de cette structure, qui est devenue hautement sollicitée, aboutit la plupart du temps à une mauvaise organisation entre les différents acteurs de l'espace tels que médecins, infirmiers et patients rendant leurs expériences quotidiennes ou même transitoires très désagréables. Comment peut-on permettre au futur système de santé d'accueillir le flux croissant de patients et rendre ce passage, devenu inévitable, un peu plus agréable ? En quoi les outils et les méthodes de l'approche systémique adaptés dans le domaine de santé pourraient-ils améliorer la structure hospitalière ? La vison de l'hôpital prend plusieurs formes et plusieurs configurations à cause de ses différentes ressources et composantes. Il est donc considéré comme un système dont les éléments qui le forment sont aussi primordiaux que les rapports qui les lient et c'est ce qui rend son organisation complexe. Une approche systémique centrée sur le paradigme des flux donnera une vision globale sur ce système (l'hôpital). Elle cerne et détecte tous les usages, toutes les routines, les façons de faire et d'agir les plus essentielles et les plus décisives ainsi que tous les paramètres contextuels, formels, structurels et fonctionnels pour améliorer l'expérience des différents utilisateurs de l'espace.
A cybernetic approach to organizational resilience
Authors: Zgouva Victoria A. , Varsos Dimitrios S. , Assimakopoulos Nikitas A.
Published: July 2020

The modern organization operates in a dynamic environment where ambiguity and uncertainty abound. As an open social system that functions in a continuously evolving business context, the modern organization must determine the external and internal issues that are relevant to its purpose and its strategic direction, and continually align its governance and management models, in a manner that reflects the diversity of this context. Embracing an organizational resilience paradigm, augments traditional risk management efforts and promotes the optimization of key and enabling processes, across all functions and levels of the organization. On a practical level, organizational resilience can be instrumental in improving management performance and an impetus to anticipating future threats and opportunities. Moreover, it can reinforce the organization’s capacity to monitor developing trends, as well as its ability to respond proactively to a variety of events, while learning from past successes and failures. Finally, implementing an effective internal control framework, combined with sufficient internal audit processes, will ensure that operational and tactical actions are aligned with strategic priorities that are consistent with the culture of the business, and in line with the organization’s overall risk tolerance. In this work we make use of the cybernetic structure of the Viable System Model (VSM) to both identify and diagnose the pathologies commonly found in traditional organizations, and explore its practical potential, in developing and implementing redesign initiatives, which reinforce the organization’s resilience and agility.
Innovation et systèmes complexes
Authors: Beau Francis
Published: July 2020

Partant de cette idée que le progrès doit être méthodologique avant d’être technologique, la démarche scientifique doit pouvoir renouer avec une « épistémè classique » préconisant ordre et méthode, pour relever avec prudence le défi du modernisme. La complexité de l’administration de notre maison commune (l’économie) considérée comme un écosystème de l’innovation peut être abordée comme un problème d’exploitation d’un capital de connaissances à mettre en valeur avec intelligence. Dans le contexte de « révolution culturelle et cognitive » dont l’électronique et le numérique ne sont que des marqueurs technologiques à effet sur l’ensemble du spectre scientifique et, plus largement, sur l’ensemble du fonctionnement complexe de nos sociétés humaines, une « intelligence collective » s’impose, mettant l’information et l’anticipation par l’innovation, au service de la performance collective et du progrès social. Cette « intelligence économique » dont la finalité est de satisfaire l’intérêt général pour l’édification d’un bien commun, peut s’appuyer sur une mémoire collective et un langage documentaire commun qui l’organise, pour produire une pensée systémique collégiale susceptible d’assurer la résilience de sociétés engagées dans une transformation extraordinairement profonde. En regard de la complexité illimitée de son objet, cette pensée est simple : essentiellement pratique, car orientée vers l’action, elle aborde les systèmes dans leur ensemble au travers d’une grille conceptuelle déterminée par la situation et par l’intention collective. Le langage qui la sert dans une mémoire documentaire, pour inscrire l’activité cognitive d’une collectivité dans la durée autour d’un besoin commun qui lui donne sens, peut s’avérer d’un usage aussi courant qu’une langue maternelle, en s’appuyant sur une organisation logique naturelle inspirée des mécanismes sensoriels à l’oeuvre dans nos systèmes cognitifs individuels.
Couplages de résonance symbiotique et hétéro-organisation comme principes fondateurs des systèmes complexes : Entre efficacité dissipative et résilience
Authors: De Gerlache Jacques
Published: July 2020

Today it is possible to finally go beyond the limits of the analytical paradigm by enriching it with a real systemic dimension allowing a complete integration of the most fundamental recent scientific achievements reflecting the emergence and resilience of complex systems, in particular the so-called "living" states of matter. This contribution proposes to show how the integration of this systemic dimension makes it possible in particular to better understand and manage in a truly lucid and operational way the biological and ecological organizational systems but also socio-economic, even political as, for example, in terms of energy transitions in the face of climate change.Work on thermodynamics of far-from-equilibrium systems has indeed thrown unprecedented light on the understanding of the dynamics of "complex" systems, particularly molecular ones. It is now well established that the emergence of such dynamic organizational structures is determined by maximizing their dissipative efficiency. This promotes the evolution of the system within which it emerges towards a state of maximum uniformity (or entropy) described by the 2nd principle of thermodynamics. These topologically localized states resulting from symbiotic and "hetero-organized" coupling processes between distinct components producing these "dissipative resonance" states are observed from the tropical cyclone to the most sophisticated bio-socio-economic systems It is indeed possible on this basis to establish the symbiotic nature of the processes that determine at all levels the organization and evolution of living states of molecular matter.This was manifested in particular by the emergence at the organo-biological level of hetero-organized and “localized” couplings between nucleic acids and amino acids, the latter giving rise to the first living cells consuming - and therefore dissipating - energy. Endo-symbiosis with certain primitive single-celled organisms with a particular capacity for energy capture and dissipation, such as chloroplasts and mitochondria, other hetero-organization processes, then opened the way for the emergence of co-determined multicellular structures even more effective and resilient on the dissipative front. The process of segmentation (and not of simple division) of an "initial" cell (the "egg") illustrates this symbiotic co-determination between epigenetic components (the "egg white") and genetics (its nucleus) opening the path to the emergence of the potential for tissue differentiation, including its neurological dimension. These processes explain the absence of an absolute hierarchy in the hetero-organization processes and their “probabilistic” component, a bit like in a jazz ensemble each musician can "improvise" (epigenetically) but by constantly agreeing on the others in the interpretation of a specific (genetic) "composition".
Enhancement of Fatigue Strength on SAE 1541 Steel Link Plate with Slip Ball Burnishing Technique
Authors: Krishnakumar K. , Selvakumar A. Arockia
Published: July 2020

This research paper describes a technique for the enhancement of the fatigue strength of the chain link plate in the drive system of a military armoured vehicle. SAE 1541 steel link plates of chains were subjected to cyclical tensile stress due to repeated loading and un-loading conditions. The crack was getting originated from the pitch hole and growth perpendicular to the chain pulling load, due to fatigue mechanism. In general plate holes are manufactured using the conventional process. An additional novel technique called the slip ball burnishing (SBB) method is applied for improving the hole properties. The improvement is made by producing local plastic deformation, improving surface finish and compressive residual stress throughout in the pierced hole. Both the conventional process (CP) and the SBB technique have been evaluated by optical, profile, surface roughness and micro harness tests. Experimental fatigue test validations were done in both chain samples using the Johnson-Goodman method. SBB chains passed 3x106 cycles at the load of 17.61 kN and CP chains passed 3x106 cycles at the load of 13.92 kN. The conclusion was that SBB made a significant improvement of 26.51 per cent of fatigue strength compared to CP.
Concept Designing of Armoured Fighting Vehicles for Future Combat
Authors: Kuprinenko Alexander , Chornyi Mykola , Mocherad Volodymyr , Ghahrodi Halyna Lotfi
Published: July 2020

The experience of military conflicts in recent decades shows changes in the nature of warfare performance, which differ significantly from those conditions for which existing types of armoured fighting vehicles were created. The conducted analysis of the works on the designing of advanced armoured fighting vehicles shows that these changes have not yet been sufficiently taken into account. It still focuses on the creation of high-value combat vehicles with high combat performance for direct (contact) actions. Given the limited economic opportunities of the most countries this inevitably leads to unreasonable expenses. This article presents a conceptual approach to design up to date of armoured fighting vehicles which is based on the asymmetrical principle of their development. Given that the practical implementation of the proposed approach is complex and high-cost, the results of simulation modelling of typical situations of combat use of the offered types of armoured fighting vehicles are given as evidence.
Optimal Falling Track Design for Twice detonating Fuze of Double event Fuel air Explosive with High Speed
Authors: Ye Congliang , Zhang Qi
Published: July 2020

To prevent the initiation failure caused by the uncontrolled fuze and improve the weapon reliability in the high-speed double-event fuel-air explosive (DEFAE) application, it is necessary to study the TDF motion trajectory and set up a twice-detonating fuze (TDF) design system. Hence, a novel approach of realising the fixed single-point center initiation by TDF within the fuel air cloud is proposed. Accordingly, a computational model for the TDF motion state with the nonlinear mechanics analysis is built due to the expensive and difficult full-scale experiment. Moreover, the TDF guidance design system is programmed using MATLAB with the equations of mechanical equilibrium. In addition, by this system, influences of various input parameters on the TDF motion trajectory are studied in detail singly. Conclusively, the result of a certain TDF example indicates that this paper provides an economical idea for the TDF design, and the developed graphical user interface of high-efficiency for the weapon designers to facilitate the high-speed DEFAE missile development.