Understanding complexity
Subtitle: a commemorative volume of the World Congress of the Systems Sciences and ISSS 2000, Toronto, Canada
By: edited by Gillian Ragsdell and Jennifer Wilby.
Contributors: Ragsdell, Gillian, 1962-; Wilby, Jennifer, 1953-
Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: System theory -- Congresses.; Computational complexity -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Section One - Theories for Complex Systems; title: The Systemic View of the World: The I Logo of General Systems Research; title: Anatol Rapoport3; title: Systems Science Fundamental Principles; title: Jam es R Sim m s 7; title: A Cosmological Imperative: Emergence of Information, Complexity and Life; title: Eric J. Chaisson15; title: The Co-Creation Hypothesis; title: H ector Sabelli 19; title: What is Infodynamics?; title: Stan Salthe31; title: Section Two - Emerging Foci on Systems Research and Practice; title: The History on Sociocybemetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association; title: Richard Lee41; title: Systems Practice at the United Kingdom's Open University; title: Ray L. Ison45; title: The WOSC and some Views about Cyberetics; title: R obert V all e55; title: Presentation of Wiener Gold Medal to Dr. Candace Pert; title: Stafford B eer59; title: xii Contents; title: Section Three - Human Systems in the 21st Century; title: On Misdirected Systems; title: Russell L. Ackoff and John Pourdehnad65; title: The Complexity of Performance and the Instruments of Mastery; title: Paul C. Wohlmuth75; title: Understanding Imperfection; title: Martin Zwick 83; title: Engaging with Transient Complexity in Development Projects; title: John Friend91; title: Meaning Networks and Verbal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective of Human; title: Discourse; title: Marcel Danesi103; title: Can Religion be Reconciled with Science?; title: John F. Haught119; title: Section Four - The Challenge of Sustainability; title: The Bridge to Humanity's Future; title: Willard R. Fey and Ann C. W. Lam127; title: Energy, Hierarchy and Money; title: Howard T. Odum139; title: Capitalism in the New Millennium: The Challenge of Sustainability; title: B ill Shirem an 149; title: Section Five - The Art and Science of Forecasting in the Age of Global Warming; title: Technological Forecasting and Assessment Tools: The Changing Scene; title: H arold A Linstone 157; title: Forecasting the Innovation of Complex Technologies; title: Don E. Kash and Robert Rycroft 165; title: Making Technology Foresight (and Systems Studies?) Useful; title: A lan L. Porter 173; title: Section Six - Y2K; title: Why the Century Date Change Occurred So Smoothly; title: Stuart A. Umpleby183; title: Implications for the Security of the International Information Infrastructure; title: Olivia Bosch191; title: Y2K - "Ten Months After": Two "Double Binds" and a " Double Blindness"; title: K arl H M ller20 1; title: Section Seven - The Future of Systems Science; title: The Future of the Natural Systems Sciences; title: Len R .Troncale219; title: Systems Thinking and the Social Sciences; title: Mike C. Jackson 239; title: Systems Thinking for the 21st Century; title: Gerald Midgley 249; title: OR 2000: Challenges and Prescriptions for the New Millennium; title: Stig C. Holmberg 257; title: Section Eight - ISSS Presidential Addresses; title: The Systems Movement and ISSS in the New Millennium; title: G. A. Swanson271; title: The Systems Sciences in the Year 3000; title: Peter A Coing277; title: Continuing the Traditions of ISSS - Systems Science in the Service of Humanity; title: Harold Nelson 283; title: Index289.