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Organization of the 43rd Meeting of the

Plenary Sessions

Monday, June 28

Robert Artigiani, "Becoming Human: Towards A Systems Interpretation"
Sally Goerner, "Dynamic Evolution and the Integral Age"
Pille Bunnell, ASHBY LECTURE, "Conservation and Change"
Soren Brier, "On the Conflict between the Informational and the
Communicational Paradigm"

Tuesday, June 29

Eric Chaisson, "A Cosmological Imperative: Emergence of Information,
Complexity, and Life"
Don Mikulecky, " Robert Rosen: The Well Posed Question and Its Answer-
Why Are Organisms Different from Machines?"
Bill Dress, "Epistemology and Rosen's Modeling Relation"
Stuart Hameroff, "Quantum vitalism" - Are consciousness and the "living
state" Fundamental quantum processes?

Evening Banquet…Ralph Abraham, "The Construction of Collective
Intelligence and a Sustainable Future"

Wednesday, June 30

Pille Bunnell, "Tangible and Intangible as Domains of Living"
Soren Brier, "The Self-Organization of Knowledge in a World of
Complexity: The Interplay of Paradigms of Knowledge in the Non-Cartesian
Transdisciplinary Epistemological Framework of Cybersemiotics"
Hal Linstone, "Technology and Social Systems: a Widening Chasm"
John van Gigch, " HOW TO BECOME A SYSTEM GURU: The Path to
Energize System Gurus of the New Millennium to Make System Science
More Credible"
Len Troncale, "Unification of Hierarchy Theory, Duality Theory, and
Evolutionary Theory: A Mechanism for Emergence"

Thursday, July 1

Len Duhl, "Community as a COMMONS: Dialogue and Democracy"
Riane Eisler, "Cultural Transformation: The Partnership Way"
David Loye, " Darwin's Lost Theory: the New Grounding for a Scientific
Revolution"
Debora Hamond, " Integrity, Integration and Learning Communities:
Theory and Practice in Education"

Evening Awards Banquet…Bela A. Banathy

Friday, July 2

Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Lecture
Jamshid Gharajedaghi, " Iterative Design: the Third Generation of Systems
Thinking"
Peter Corning, Incoming Presidential Address
Annual ISSS Membership Meeting

Monday, June 28

Robert Artigiani "Becoming Human: Towards A Systems Interpretation"
Sally J. Goerner, "Dynamic Evolution and the Integral Age"
Humberto Maturana, ASHBY LECTURE, "Conservation and Change"
Søren Brier , "On the Conflict between the Informational and the Communicational
Paradigm"

Tuesday, June 29

Eric Chaisson , "A Cosmological Imperative: Emergence of Information, Complexity,
and Life"
Donald C. Mikulecky, " Robert Rosen: The Well Posed Question and Its Answer-
Why Are Organisms Different from Machines?"
W. B. Dress, "Epistemology and Rosen's Modeling Relation"
John J. Kineman and Jesse R. Kineman , "Non-mechanical ontology in the explanation of organism
and evolution"
Stuart Hameroff , "Quantum vitalism" - Are consciousness and the "living state"
Fundamental quantum processes?

Evening Banquet…

Ralph H. Abraham,, "The Construction of Collective Intelligence and a
Sustainable Future"

Wednesday, July 1

Pille Bunnell , "Tangible and Intangible as Domains of Living"
Søren Brier, ""The Self-Organization of Knowledge in a World of Complexity:
The Interplay of Paradigms of Knowledge in the Non-Cartesian Transdisciplinary Epistemological Framework of Cybersemiotics"
Harold Linstone, "Technology and Social Systems: a Widening Chasm"
John P. van Gigch, " HOW TO BECOME A SYSTEM GURU: The Path to Energize
System Gurus of the New Millennium to Make System Science More Credible"
Len Troncale , "Unification of Hierarchy Theory, Duality Theory, and Evolutionary Theory:
A Mechanism for Emergence"

Thursday, July 2

Len Duhl , "Community as a COMMONS: Dialogue and Democracy"
Riane Eisler, "Cultural Transformation: The Partnership Way"
David Loye, " Darwin's Lost Theory: the New Grounding for a Scientific Revolution"
Debora Hammond, " Integrity, Integration and Learning Communities: Theory and Practice in Education"
Harold Linstone, Donald de Raadt and Zhichang Zhu, "Multiple Perspectives"

Evening Awards Banquet…Bela Banathy

Friday, July 3

Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Lecture
Jamshid Gharajedaghi, " Iterative Design: the Third Generation of Systems Thinking"

Peter Corning, Incoming Presidential Address

Annual ISSS membership Meeting

Afternoon Paper Sessions

MONDAY, JUNE 28, PAPER SESSION I (1:15-3:15)

Designing Educational Systems ( Marlin meeting room)
Chairs Lynn Jenks and Patrick Jenlink

Evolution and Complexity - Chair Larry Edwards ( Sanderling meeting room)

Foundations of Information Science - Chair Søren Brier (Chapel Hall)

Human Systems Inquiry - Chair Arne Collen (Dolphin meeting room)

Living Systems Analysis - Chair James Simms (Curlew meeting room)

Research Toward General Theories of Systems (Surf & Sand meeting room)
Chair Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt

Spirituality and Systems - Chair Axel Randrup ( Hill Top living room)

MONDAY, JUNE 28, PAPER SESSION II (3:45-5:45)

Designing Educational Systems () Marlin
Chairs Lynn Jenks and Patrick Jenlink

Evolution and Complexity - Chair Larry Edwards ( Sanderling)

Foundations of Information Science - Chair Søren Brier (Chapel Hall)

Human Systems Inquiry - Chair Arne Collen (Dolphin)

Living Systems Analysis - Chair James Simms ( Curlew)

Research Toward General Theories of Systems (Surf & Sand)
Chair Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt

Spirituality and Systems - Chair Axel Randrup (Hill Top)

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, PAPER SESSION I (1:15-3:15)

Designing Educational Systems ( Marlin)
Chairs Lynn Jenks and Patrick Jenlink

Evolution of Political Systems - Chair Ken Bailey (Sanderling)
Discussants: Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt and James Simms

Evolutionary Learning Community (Hill Top)
Chairs Kathia & Alexander Laszlo

Foundations of Information Science - Chair Søren Brier ( Chapel Hall)

Human Systems Inquiry - Chair Arne Collen (Dolphin)

Research Toward General Theories of Systems (Surf & Sand)
Chair Helmut (Ken) Burkhardt

Spirituality and Systems - Chair Axel Randrup (Curlew))

What is Life and Living? - Chair John J. Kineman (Chapel Hall)

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, PAPER SESSION II (3:45-5:45)

Duality Theory - Chair Vitaly Dubrovsky ( Surf & Sand)

Evolutionary Learning Community (Hill Top)
Chairs Kathia & Alexander Laszlo

Medical and Health Systems - Chair Vadim Kvitash (Curlew)

Multiple Perspectives Panel - Chair Harold Linstore (Sanderling)
Harold Linstone, Donald de Raadt and Zhichang Zhu

Process Theory - Chair Hector Sabelli ( Marlin)

What is Life and Living? - Chair John J. Kineman (Chapel Hall)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, PAPER SESSION I (1:15-3:15)

Evolutionary Learning Community ( Hill Top)
Chairs Kathia & Alexander Laszlo

Hierarchy Theory - Chair Len Troncale ( Surf & Sand)

Modeling and Metamodeling - Chair John van Gigch (Dolphin)

Systemic Approaches Unification of Science - (Chapel Hall)

Systems Application to Business and Industry - SYMPOSIUM I (Curlew)
Chair Enrique Herrscher

Systems Modeling and Simulation - Chair Robert Orchard (Marlin)

Thermodynamics and Systems Theory - Chair Peter Corning (Sanderling)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, PAPER SESSION II (3:45-5:45)

Critical Systems Theory & Practice - Chair Ken Udas ( Hill Top)

Information Systems Design & Information Technology ( Chapel Hall)
Chairs Lars Albinnson and Roberto Kampfner

Modeling and Metamodeling - Chair John van Gigch ( Dolphin)

Systems Application to Business and Industry SYMPOSIUM II (Curlew)
Chair Enrique Herrscher

Systems Modeling and Simulation - Chair Robert Orchard (Marlin)

The Primer - Chair Tom Mandel (Surf & Sand)

Thermodynamics and Systems Theory - Chair Peter Corning (Sanderling)

THURSDAY, JULY 1, PAPER SESSION I (1:15-3:15)

Critical Systems Theory & Practice - Chair Ken Udas (Hill Top)

Evolution and Complexity - Chair Larry Edwards ( Sanderling)

Futurism and Change - Chair Curt McNamara ( Dolphin)

Information Systems Design & Information Technology (Chapel Hall)
Chairs Lars Albinnson and Roberto Kampfner

Systems Application to Business and Industry (Curlew)
Chair Enrique Herrscher

Systems Philosophy and Systems Ethics - Chair Sytse Strijbos (Marlin)

Systems Psychology and Psychiatry - Chair Martin Sundel ( Surf & Sand)

THURSDAY, JULY 1, PAPER SESSION II (3:45-5:45)

Critical Systems Theory & Practice - Chair Ken Udas (Hill Top)

Evolution and Complexity - Chair Larry Edwards ( Sanderling)

Futurism and Change - Chair Curt McNamara (Dolphin)

Information Systems Design & Information Technology (Chapel Hall)
Chairs Lars Albinnson and Roberto Kampfner

Systemic Considerations in Economics - Chair G.A. Swanson (Curlew)

Systems Philosophy and Systems Ethics - Chair Sytse Strijbos ( Marlin)

Systems Psychology and Psychiatry - Chair Martin Sundel (Surf & Sand)

Critical Systems Theory and Practice

Ely A. Dorsey About Risk, Synergy and Complexity

Ignacio Peon Escalante A critical systemic participatory action-research approach,
for interorganizational network development process toward a holistic and sustainable transformation of communities Putting Theory into Action:

Sang W. Hwang A General Evolutionary Perspective on Sustainable
Development: Working Model of a General
Evolutionary Methodology

Soon Mi Jeong A Study on Complex Adaptive Mechanism in CapitalistSystem

Hyuk-Kihl Kwon A complex systems approach to modeling for analyzing the revolutions;
from the 2nd Republic of Korea in 1961

Constance M. Lehman Developing Integrated Social Policies to Support the
Emotional Well Being of Children

Michael McKibbin and Lawrie Reavill Resolution of Conflict in Northern Ireland - A Systemic Analysis

Clemencia Morales Complementarity Of The Goal-Based, The Systems Resource And
Multiactor Evaluation Methodologies

Byung Chul Rho Complexity of System Transformation in North Korea

Ken Udas A Critical Systems Analysis of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

Néstor Valero-Silva Foucault and Critical Systems Thinking: Main Issues to be Considered for a Critical History of the Origins of CST

Designing Educational Systems

Armando Arias Object Oriented and UML Enterprise Models for Academic Programs & Communications

Sylvia Brown Disseminating Systems Thinking; a preliminary review of the role
Opportunity Initiated Systems Design might play

Pille Bunnell and Kathleen Forsythe Intelligence Arises in Relationship

James Clover Five Strategies For Using Computers to Spread Systems Ideas
from K-12 to the Public

Sue Gabriele Boulding's Typology Elaborated: a Theoretical Framework
for Understanding School and Classroom Systems

Peggy B. Gill Educational Systemic Change as a Three Dimensional

Patrick M. Jenlink Crossing Boundaries, Changing Consciousness, and Creating Learning Communities: Systems Design as Scholarly Practice in Educational Change

Elaine R Parent A Model for Doctoral Student Academic and Career Development and a Proposed 'Jump Start' Program for Entering Doctoral Students

Lawrie Reavill A Systemic Analysis of Research Assessment in UK Universities

Minna Takala and David Hawk Using multidisciplinary education to cross organizational borders - a Finnish example

Len Troncale Placing “Stealth” Systems Science in the General Education Curriculum of Every U.S. University

Vitaly Dubrovsky Beyond Duality:
Application of Cross-attribution to the Concept of Social Norm

Vitaly Dubrovsky Beyond Duality: From Opposition to Cross-Attribution

Kirill Goldstein The Missing Link: Duality and Group Behavior

Aleksandr Levintov Dualistic Imprints of Culture

Valeri A.Nikanorov A Cognitive Expertize Throughout Modern Disciplinary
Chemistries: A True Invaluable Verificational Treasure for the Developing Duality Theory

Valeri A.Nikanorov Obvious and Hidden in Systems: Things, their Interrelations, ... and
Going On Further. An Overcoming One 125-Yearlong Stereochemical Duality Paradox and its Interdisciplinary Generalization

I. Rojdestvenski Time rescaling and generalized entropy in relation to the internal
measurement concept

Evolution and Complexity

Tyrone Cashman Does the Darwinian Game Change When the Large-brained Primates
Become the Mirror of Evolution

Louise K. Comfort Complex Systems in Crisis: Anticipation and Resilience in Dynamic evironments

Peter A. Corning, ' Devolution' as an Opportunity to Test the Synergism Hypothesis

Molly Dwyer Complexity and the Emergent Feminine: A Cosmological Inquiry into the Role of the Feminine in the Evolution of the Universe

Larry Edwards From Mechanism to Spirituality

James Fournier Evolution, Entropy and Work

Tim Haslett and Charles Osborne Local Rule Theory:
Applying Complexity Theory to Organizations

Simeon Hein Resonant Viewing and The Evolution of Human Consciousness

A.Igamberdiev and I.Rojdestvenski Coherence as a Basis of Computational Properties in Living Systems

Sean M. Kelly, From the Complexity of Consciousness to the Consciousness of Complexity

Alfonso Montuori Complexity and the Evolution of Planetary Culture

Robert North and Nazli Choucri Globalization: "Soft" Variables, "Hard"
Variables, and Behavioral Paradoxes

Yong Pil Rhee New Paradigm of Self-Organization for the Study of Social Systems

Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd Complex Societies: The Evolutionary Origins of a Crude
Superorganism

Edwina Taborsky The Evolution of Consciousness

Eric Weiss The Experience of space: Chaos theory and the Evolution of Consciousness

Mary Jane Zimmerman The Imagination As A Spiritual Path: Wordsworth's Integral Way of
Knowing

Evolutionary Learning Community (ELC)

Erin Artigiani Can Community Design Turn Criminal Hot Spots Into Neighborhoods?

Donna DeWitt McGarry Conditions Under Which Partnership Cultures May Emerge

Alexander Laszlo Syntony as an Organizing Force in Societal Evolution

Kathia C. Laszlo Evolutionary Learning Community Inquiry: Theoretical background and core definitionsAllenna Leonard, New Developments in the Team Syntegrity Process

Lawrie Reavill and Chris Brady "Teamness" - Is Synergy in Teams a Reality or an Illusion?

Sherryl R. Stalinski The Ways and Means of Heathy, Authentic Community

Maurice Yolles Viable Systems Theory and Joint Ventures

Foundations of Information Theory

Allan Combs Information and the Subjective Brain

William S, Dockens III Four Brand New Colors
Information Nullification in Psychology and the Humanities

Koichi Hirano & Ray Paton Temporal Development within a Macroeconomic System Interpreted
in the Past Progressive Tense: A Study of the Japanese Economy

Wolfgang Hofkirchner Cognitive Sciences in a Unified Theory of Information Perspective

Roberto R. Kampfner Information Processing as an Aspect of the Dynamics of the Processes Underlying Function

Louis H. Kauffman Virtual Logic and The Flagg Resolution

Edwina Taborsky Archictectures of Information

Zhichang Zhu Integrating Ontology, Epistemology and Methodology in Information Systems Design - The WSR Case

Futurism and Change

R. Keith Ellis and Lawrie Reavill Developing Synergistic Technology Change Through Systems Thinking

Charles A. Fink Developing and Testing a Non-Mathematical Model and Offering It on the Internet

Gregory LaPointe The Necessity for Understanding and Designing Humanistic Social Systems

Emilio Latorre Attitudes to Environmental Action at the Household Level in Cali Colombia

Curt McNamara Geometric Systems Design

Elaine Scott & Lawrence P. Reavill Change Management in an Arts Organisation: The Dominance of Unintended Over Intended Outcome.

Hierarchy Theory

Phillip Christian An Application of Hierarchy Theory to Web-based Applications

Savely Savva Toward a Cybernetic Model of the Organism

Savely Savva Dialectics of Social Dynamics

Jennifer M. Wilby Epidemiology and Systems In the Study of Emerging Infectious Disease

Human Systems Inquiry

Joe Arteaga and David Ing The purposes of (and within) Virtual Communities Towards Development in Society

Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos Structured viable Systems with Human Development: the case of STIMEVIS

Arne Collen The Genesis of a Meta Methodology for Human systems Inquiry

Arne Collen and Gianfranco Minati Seven Activities to Engage Systems Thinking

James Steve Counelis, Systemic Metatheory, Casuistry and Artificial Intelligence:
Is there a Possibility?

Peter Cox, Paul Mason and Mak Solieng Agricultural Research and Extension Systems in Cambodia: the Management of Change

Doepp, Manfred System Deficiency, Blockage, and Asymmetry in the Human Body:
Diagnosis, Importance, and Consequences

Lezlie Kinyon Aesthetic Inquiry: a New Idea for Human Science

Michael McElwee, Behavioral Complexity and Cultural Evolution
from an Empirical Base

Jiwoon Park The Design of Learning Process for Ethical Cognition

Information Systems Design and Information Technology

Mieczyslaw Bazewicz The Social Vision
of the Communication, Information and Knowledge Era of the XXI century

Olov Forsgren, Leif Rydén Integrated Services for the Information Society

Martin L.W. Hall Systems Thinking and Human Values: Towards Understanding the Chaos in Organizations

Misha Hebel Exploring the Human Values embedded in Information Systems

Magdalena A. Kalaidjieva Information Systems Based on 2nd Order Knowledge Bases

Roberto R Kampfner Compatibility with the Organization’s Functions as a goal of Information Systems Design

Ariel G. Leonard Information Support Requirements for Implementing Adaptive
Ecosystem Management

Doug McDavid Living Model for Enterprise Information Systems

Toshizumi Ohta and Kazunari Ishida Toward a Development of an Encyclopedia of Social Informatics

Arnold SmithInformation Technology and the Scientific Worldview

Xijin TANG WSR Approach to a Practical Implementation of
Computerized Aids for System Evaluation

Jaak Tepandi Auditing of Active Distributed Information Environments

Stuart Umpleby How the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Could Reenergize Systems Science

Parviz Ahari Systemic Usability Engineering Experiences from a software development project

Kenneth D. Bailey Subsystem Competition in Complex Societies: Bureaucratic goal displacement and secondary entropy

F. Scott Cowan , Janet K. Allen , and Farrokh Mistree Employing Perspectives with Living Systems Theory in Engineering Design

Youn-Soo Sim On the Subsystems Processing the Energy and Information in the Current Relations between South and North Korea

James R. Simms Principles of a Quantitative Living Systems Science: Individuals

Edwina Taborsky The Hierarchies of Information Development

Lane Tracy Is Gaia a Living System?

Vadim I. Kvitash, Adding Balascopy-based General Systems Feature
to What is Known in Liver Diseases

Elizabeth Pavka The Paradigm Shift from Dietetics to Nutrition in the
United States Health Care system and a Look Into the Future

John Reiss, Child Health Systems Development:
A General Systems Theory Based Approach

Ken Bausch The Fifth Influence A Self-Referential Epistemology:
Beyond Circularity to Rigor

Nils O. Larsson The vital balance

Nils O. Larsson Goals and Perspectives in the Design of Human Activity
Systems

Sergey Levkov and Alexander Makarenko Anticipatory Aspects in Neuronet Type Models for Social Design Geopolitical Appliactions

Tom Mandel Mom? What's the General System? The Simplest Complexity

Guillermo Rodriguez Abitia and L. L. Schkade Control of Technology Trasfer: a Global Metamodel

Markus Schwaninger, Stephen G. Powell, Chris Trimble Modeling a Control System for Organizational Processes

Adam D. Sundel, Martin Sundel The Y2KmPhenomenon and its Implications

David Gordon and Hector Sabelli BIOTIC Patterns of Heart Rate Variation in New Born Infants
and their Disruption in Newborns with Severe Congenital illness

Hector Sabelli and Louis Kauffman BIOS: Creative Organization Beyond Chaos

Hector Sabelli Complement plots display Mandala-like patterns in human heart beats

Hector Sabelli Information Begets Color

Guohua Bai A Cybernetic Model of Social Activity Systems

Aparna Basu Inequality Distributions as a signature of Self Organizing Systems

Michel Cabanac, Rémi Cabanac, and Harold T. Hammel The Fifth Influence

Sung Chull Kim Understanding of Institutional Change from Complex Systems Perspective

Vadim I. Kvitash, Balascopy-based General Systems Technology:
Theory, Methodology and Practical Tools

Leon Levy Concepts of thinking

Roumiana Nikolaeva-Hubenova Endo/Exo-Description of living Systems - a Mathematical Approach.

James N Rose Old Perceptions, New Thinking

Antony Arcari The Colors of Consciousness

Bryan P. Bergson Can Weather Be Stabilized?

Alden Bryant Climate Stabilization: Awareness, Direction and Progress

Daniel Hershey, Our Aging,Evolving Universe:From Birth(Out of Infinity)To Death(Return to Infinity)

Tetsunori Koizumi Materialization and Etherealization
as Conjugate processes in Systems Evolution

Jeffrey S. Sinn Faith without the Supernatural: Faith as a Response to the Existential Implications of Systems Theory

Frank R. (Bob) Kull Out Into Wild Aliveness... How Do I Pack For The Journey?

Elizabeth White The Wang and Texas Instruments Cases:
A 2nd Order Cybernetic View of the Corporation as a Complex Dynamic System,
Utilizing a General Evolutionary Systems Model

Linda Wilder The Master System - Shamanism

Fred B. Wood, Sr A Zygonic Analysis of the Possible Interaction of Spiritual and Scientific Processes in the Analysis of Maxwell's Equations for Electromagnetic Waves.

Assoc. Prof. Søren Brier On the Conflict between the Informational and the Communicational Paradigm

Wolfgang Hofkirchner Ways of thinking and the Unification of Science

James R. Simms Group Information: Its Nature and Measurement

Lane Tracy Technology and the Evolution of Living Systems

Len Troncale A Mechanism for Emergence

Len Troncale Natural Systems Science: A Practical Plan for Systems Research Collaboration

Len Troncale Why 50 Years of ISSS Activities Did Not Result in a General Theory of Systems: What We Must Do In the Second Millenium

Glenn E. Burress How to Restore the Promise of Systems Theory

Sander Rubin The Shape of the Curve

G. A. Swanson Money, the Third Commodity

Gary M. Cunningham Budget Effectiveness in Multinational Companies : A Configuration/Systems Approach

David L. Hawk A 21st Century Challenge to Corporate Values: From Functional Success to Context as Everything

Yoshihide Horiuchi, Proposal of Virtual Transportation Industry: Idealization
of Transportation Systems with Social Systems Navigation

David Ing and Ian Simmonds Designing Natural Tension into the Structure of Adaptive
Enterprises -- "Context and Coordination" in the Sense & Respond Organization

Eduardo Oliva-López, Jorge A. Rojas-Ramírez and Edith R. Silva-Mendoza Egocentric management: an Organisational Disease Preventing Good Communication and Wellbeing

Alejandro von Siegler-Guardado and Eduardo Oliva-Lopez Transcendental Engineering - a Systemic Approach to Interorganisational Design and Manufacture

Elizabeth White Tree and Me: a 2nd Order Cybernetic View: Toward a Scientifically
Grounded Spiritual Practice, Utilizing a General Evolutionary Systems
Model

Norman J. Bashias Miriam R. Tausner On a Systemic Measure of Consistency

Emilio Latorre and Hector Palacios A systemic model to evaluate the small peasant farm in Colombia from a sustainability perspective

Edward J. Reese , Maryann Reese, and Miriam R. TausnerS ystems Models Provide a View of Psychological Self-Organization

Z.K. Silagadze Citations and the Zipf-Mandelbrot's law

Rudolf Starkermann Con Mala Persona, el Remedio: Mucho Tierra en Media
(The only path to temporary peace!)

Miriam R. Tausner and Dr. Norman J. Bashias Ontology Of and Experiments With Distributed Models of Systemic Reasoning

Marian Lee Dumaine, Individuals Diagnosed with Both Schizophrenia and Substance Abuse: System Misfits

Savvas D. Georgiades Exploring Primary Yet "Forgotten" Sub-systems in Social Service Delivery: the Case of the Cyprus CitizensThe Missing Link: Duality and Group Behavior

Sylvia Herz, Surge of Baby Boomers into 21st Century
Differing Generational Lifestyles and Perspectives

Simon T. Jencius Human Personality as Simple and Complex Systems:
Psychological and Philosophical Issues Involving the Self, Individuality, and Uniqueness

Simon T. Jencius Fuzzy Set Analysis in the Complex System of Human Personality

Peter P. Robertson The AEM-Cube®.

Carl Slawski A Systemic Pragmatist Theory of the Meaning of Life

C. A. Hilgartner, Martha A. Bartter and Ronald V. Harrington WANTED: Scientific Science

Dan Moonhawk Alford Language As The Ultimate Living System

Donald E. Watson The Theory of Enformed Systems:
Foundation for Wholeness Science

Eli Berniker and Fred Wolf The Thermodynamics of Organizing: Information and Noise in Terms of the Second Law

Jong Heon Byeon Application of Chaos Theory to the Political Systems Transformation

I Rojdestvenski and M.Cottam Mapping of Statistical Physics to Information theory:

James N Rose Integrity, Entropy, Emergy, Gaussian Bubbles

Frederick Wolf, Eli Berniker, and Mitch Bloom, Organizational Temperature and Entropy: Some Thoughts on the Second Law

Ken Bausch Choreographing and Dancing Life

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson and Roger Vounckx Life as its own Tool for Survival

Christine Hardy Complex Semantic Systems: Understanding Mind-in-the-world

Gary S. Metcalf A Critique of Social Systems Theory

Danielle Mihram and G. Arthur Mihram Communications and Living Systems

Charles Francois The possible Obsolescence of the Human Brain
La Posible obsolescencia del Cerebro Humano

Jorge Ishizawa-Oba The Interculturability as a Paradigm of the 21st Century
La Interculturalidad Como Paradigma del Siglo XXI

Hernán López-Garay In Search of Alternative Socio-political paradigms for Latin America:
a Preliminary Systemic Reflection

En Busca de Paradigmas Socio Politicos Alternos Para America Latina:
una Reflexion Sistemica Preliminar

Pedro Makabe The Systemic Complexity as Organizational Paradigm of Democratic
Living in Latin America
La Complejidad Sistémica como Paradigma Organizacional del
Convivir Democrático en América Latina

Francisco Parra-LunaTowards Measuring Organizational Performance
Hacia la Medida de la Eficiencia de las Organizaciones

Rafael Rodríguez Delgado Application of the Systems Approach to the Design of Educational Systems
Aplicacion del Enfoque de Sistemas al Diseño de Sistemas Educacionales

Ricardo Rodríguez-Ulloa Soft System Dynamics Methodology (SSDM): a Tool for
Social Systems Analysis and Design
Methodologia Blanda de Dinamica de Sistemas (MBDS):
una Herramienta Para el Analisis y Diseño de Sistemas Sociales

Rolando Salazar Vargas Cultural Lag Theory in the Context of Change in Social Systems Teoría del Retraso Cultural en el Contexto de Cambio en Sistemas Sociales

Ricardo Sotaquirá Gutiérrez Towards a Latin American View of the Application of System
Dynamics in Organizational Studies
Hacia un Mirar Latinoamericano de la Aplicación de la Dinámica
De Sistemas en Estudios Organizacionales

Workshops

Lars Albinsso Three shifts in power caused by the Internet

Gary C. Alexander Open Systems: Sustaining the Living Organisation: an Open Systems Perspective
Sistemas Abiertos Sosteniendo la Organización Viviente: una Perspectiva de Sistemas Abiertos

Eric Chaisson Ethical Evolution

Paul Cilliers Complexity, Ethics and Justice

J. D. R. de Raadt and V. D. de Raadt Systems in Decision making: Tools and Applications

William S, Dockens III Four Brand New Colors
Information Nullification in Psychology and the Humanities

Martine M.E. Dodds Ethics in the Age of Disorder

Ely A. Dorsey About Risk, Synergy and Complexity

Ignacio Peon Escalante A critical systemic participatory action-research approach,
for interorganizational network development process toward a holistic and sustainable transformation of communities Putting Theory into Action:

Dennis Finlayson Systems and Development: Past Neglect,
Future Contribution?

Sang W. Hwang A General Evolutionary Perspective on Sustainable
Development: Working Model of a General
Evolutionary Methodology

Soon Mi Jeong A Study on Complex Adaptive Mechanism in CapitalistSystem

Hyuk-Kihl Kwon A complex systems approach to modeling for analyzing the revolutions;
from the 2nd Republic of Korea in 1961

Dr. Beom Woong Lee A Study on Systems Education to Build the Sustainable Ecological Community

Constance M. Lehman Developing Integrated Social Policies to Support the
Emotional Well Being of Children

Tom Mandel Perspectualism; Bela Banathy Sr.'s Zoom Lens, A Multi-perspectual Glance

Michael McKibbin and Lawrie Reavill Resolution of Conflict in Northern Ireland - A Systemic Analysis

Gianfranco Minati Knowledge for Beings Able to Design
Conocimiento Para Seres Capaces de Diseñar

Sara Ojeda Benítez A Conceptualization of Education for the New Millenium from the Systems Theory´s Perspective / Una Concepción de la Educación para el Nuevo Milenio desde la perspectiva de la Teoría de Sistemas

Hyo-chong ParkSome Reform Suggestions for the Korean Bureaucracy: A Systems Perspective

Igor Rojdestvenski and Abir Igamberdiev Recursive Embedding, Quantum Measurement
and Uncertainty Principle

S. Strijbos Principles of "Disclosive Systems Thinking" Philosophical and Methodological Refelctions

Arthur Sugerman, Hector Sabelli and Minu Patel Biotic Patterns of Economic Processes:
Beyond Equilibrium, Chaos, and Uncertainty