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Systemic View of Parts of the World
50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences 2006 (ISSS 2006) Rohnert Park, California, USA 9-14 July 2006 Volume 1 of 2 Editors: Jennifer Wilby Janet K. Allen Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin ISBN: 978-1-62276-755-7 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Copyright© (2006) by the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2013) For permission requests, please contact the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) at the address below. International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) 47 Southfield Road Pocklington, York YO42 2XE, United Kingdom Phone/Fax: +44 (0)1759 302718 [email protected] Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2634 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 Systemic View of Parts of the World....................................................................................................................................1 Korn, Janos Mindful Knowing................................................................................................................................................................. 26 Fielden, Kay Fostering a Sustainable Learning Society through Knowledge Based Development .................................................... -
Cybernetics and Contingency, Codes and Programs : an Account of Social System Thinking in Law and Legal Theory Today
ORBIT-OnlineRepository ofBirkbeckInstitutionalTheses Enabling Open Access to Birkbeck’s Research Degree output Cybernetics and contingency, codes and programs : an account of social system thinking in law and legal theory today https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40396/ Version: Full Version Citation: Bryson, Giulia (2019) Cybernetics and contingency, codes and programs : an account of social system thinking in law and legal theory today. [Thesis] (Unpublished) c 2020 The Author(s) All material available through ORBIT is protected by intellectual property law, including copy- right law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Deposit Guide Contact: email CYBERNETICS AND CONTINGENCY, CODES AND PROGRAMS: AN ACCOUNT OF SOCIAL SYSTEM THINKING IN LAW AND LEGAL THEORY TODAY GIULIA BRYSON DOCTORATE OF PHILOSOPHY (PHD) IN LAW 2018 LAW DEPARTMENT, BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 1 I hereby declare that the work presented in this thesis is my own, except where explicit reference is made to the work of others. Giulia Bryson 2 ABSTRACT The thesis discusses aspects of current Social Systems Theory, with the main attention devoted both to the level of the compassing social system society and to that of function systems, especially law. Throughout, I refer to the version of social systems theory developed and presented as theory of social autopoiesis in Niklas Luhmann's mature work, while a lim- ited but important part of the thesis will explain this choice and serve as a comparative and genealogical guideline. Central will be the notion and idea of what Luhmann calls a Contingency Formula — term that both func- tions as a problem outline and that indicates how the problem can be solved, within the context of the Legal System. -
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f t a h c s l l e s e G r e t u p m o C e h c s i h c i e r er t s Ö e i D . t f a h c s ll e s e G d n u t f a h c s rt i W n i k i t a m r o f n I .. e l u h c S r JAHRESBERICHT 2012 e d n i k i t a m r o f n ÖSTERREICHISCHE COMPUTER GESELLSCHAFT I . 2012 g n u d l i b r e t i e W d n u - s u A in k ti a rm fo In . .. ng hu sc or d F un aft sch issen Informatik in W Inhalt OCG – DIE IKT-PLATTFORM INTEGRATIVE PROJEKTE 08 Wer ist die OCG und was macht sie? 31 AAL-A Gründungsmitglied 09 Organigramm der OCG-Dienstleistungen 32 ECDL barrierefrei: Der Arbeitskreis Barrierefreiheit durch IKT (AK:BF-IKT) 10 Arbeitskreise der OCG 33 IT4Blind 12 Veranstaltungen der OCG Gemeindebau 3.0 13 Die OCG als Veranstaltungspartner INNOVATION 14 OCG Horizonte – IT-Themen und Trends 34 INNOTRAIN IT 15 OCG Students Club 35 Die IT des Alltags für Kinder erfahrbar machen (ITAKE) 16 Veranstaltungsübersicht 2012 17 Wissenschaftliche Wettbewerbe DER VEREIN 18 Wettbewerbe für Jugendliche 38 Organigramm der OCG 19 Approbation Lernmaterial 40 Die Ehrenmitglieder OCG Schriftenreihe Der Vorstand 42 Mitglieder aus der Wirtschaft LEITTHEMEN 43 Institutionelle Mitglieder AUSBILDUNG UND QUALITÄT 44 Neue Mitglieder aus der Wirtschaft 2012 22 AK IKT-Ausbildung für LehrerInnen Aufstellung der Mitglieder nach Bundesländern 23 Akkreditierung der OCG als Zertifizierungsstelle 45 Die Komitees nach ISO/IEC 27001 47 Ehrungen 24 ECDL und OCG Zertifikate 48 AARIT und ERCIM 26 Sophia – Das erfolgreiche Testsystem der OCG Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) WISSENSCHAFT UND IT 49 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI) 28 Erster Österreichischer Informatiktag Österreichische Gesellschaft für Informatikgeschichte (ÖGIG) Kooperation mit SI und GI 29 IKT-Forscher Netzwerktreffen 30 Energieinformatik Jahresbericht 2012 Informationstechnologie und Informatik Als permanente Aufgabe hat sich das befinden sich nach wie vor in enormer Thema „Ausbildung und Qualität“ he- Weiterentwicklung. -
Kybernetik in Österreich
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Universität Wien: OJS-Service Kybernetik in Österreich Ein Gespräch zwischen Robert Trappl und Albert Müller1 Albert Müller: Wie kam die Kybernetik nach Österreich? Dieses Thema ist noch wenig behandelt worden, obwohl es sich um eine wichtige Sache handelt. Eine der Besonderheiten besteht darin, dass zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt in Österreich Kybernetik selbst in der hohen Politik Aufmerksamkeit fand. Ein früherer öster- reichischer Bundeskanzler, Josef Klaus, hat in einem Buch, das er 1971 als eine Art Rechenschaftsbericht über seine politischen Aktivitäten veröffentlichte,2 unter anderem Folgendes geschrieben: „Die Kybernetisierung der Menschheit kommt mit Riesenschritten auf uns zu.“ In seiner Rolle als Finanzminister erwarb er die erste IBM 360, die er auch selbst feierlich in Betrieb nahm. Josef Klaus bezieht sich in die- sem Text auf Norbert Wiener und W. Ross Ashby, was für einen Politiker doch ziem- lich ungewöhnlich ist. Seine Begeisterung für Kybernetik und Computer brachte ihn schließlich dazu, sich als Privatschüler bei Heinz Zemanek anzumelden, der damals Leiter eines wichtigen Forschungslabors bei IBM in Wien war. Er schreibt relativ genau, wie er als Bundeskanzler um 1968 jeden Morgen vor seinem Erschei- nen im Amt zu Zemanek geht und von ihm Unterricht erhält. Zum Abschluss dieser Aus- und Weiterbildung schreibt der Bundeskanzler Klaus selbst ein kleines FORTRAN-Programm, das auf dem Computer auch zum Laufen gebracht werden konnte. – Das ist eine untypische Geschichte, wie ich glaube, man wird in Öster- reich kaum Politiker finden, die sich ähnlich verhalten haben, und wahrscheinlich wird man auch in anderen Ländern kaum Spitzenpolitiker finden, die sich in mor- gendlicher Frühe einem Privatunterricht in Kybernetik unterziehen. -
Physical Relationships Among Matter, Energy and Information
Physical Relationships among Matter, Energy and Information Stuart A. Umpleby Department of Management The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA email: [email protected] Published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science Vol. 24, No. 3, 2007, pp. 369-372. An earlier version appeared in Robert Trappl (ed.) Cybernetics and Systems ‘04 Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 2004 Physical Relationships Among Matter, Energy and Information Stuart A. Umpleby Department of Management Science The George Washington University Washington, DC 20052, USA email: [email protected] “Information is the difference that makes a difference.” Shannon [1949] defined information as a reduction of Gregory Bateson uncertainty. Bateson [1972] defined information as "that which changes us" or "the difference that makes a Abstract difference." A crucial point is that information, unlike matter and energy, is a function of the observer. [von General systems theorists often refer to matter, Foerster, 1974] For example, the same message may energy and information as fundamental have different meanings for different people. Although categories. The three concepts – matter, energy information requires the perception of a difference, the and information – are related through scientific difference will require a matter or energy carrier (e.g., a laws. Matter and energy relations are more page in a book or sound waves in air). In addition, thoroughly understood than relations involving cognition requires a nervous system. information. At the level of data or signal In 1967 at a panel discussion at the University of “difference” is suggested as a more elementary Illinois I heard Ross Ashby mention Bremermann’s limit. term than “information.” Bremermann’s limit states a relationship between matter and information. -
First Responders in Regional Disasters a Social Responsibility
FIRST RESPONDERS IN REGIONAL DISASTERS A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Gerhard Chroust, J.Kepler Univ., Linz, Austria ([email protected]) Günther Ossimitz, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria Markus Roth, Creative Bits, Traun, Austria Nadine Sturm, Research Institute of the Red Cross Austria, Wien, Austria Peter Ziehesberger, Ziehesberger Elektronik, Neuhofen/Krems, Austria ABSTRACT Today’s catastrophes (many of them man-made or at least triggered by human acti- vity) seemingly endanger an increasing number of humans in large geographic areas in numerous different ways, calling for more attention concerning appropriate reactions. We discuss what constitutes a ’disaster’ and analyze different response types (Flight/Run away, Fight/Intervene, Freeze, Submit/Sustain/Endure, Ignore/Deny). Taking a closer look at in- terventions as the classical Fight/Intervene reaction, we investigate interventions from se- veral view points: systemic (bringing a system back to its domain of viability), process- oriented (characterizing an intervention as a set interlinked process steps), organizational (identifying systemic strategies and tactics), and human (considering Social Responsibility, psychological problems, mental health, and multicultural aspects). We will also identify the role that modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play in supporting First Responders by making their job easier and at the same time more effective. Keywords: Social Responsibility, First Responders, Disasters, Intervention, Systems view, Or- ganisation, Mental Health, Human Aspects 1 MOTIVATION Regional disasters (many of them man-made or at least triggered by human activities) seemingly have grown in number, in scale, in their impact and also in their publicity due to media cover- age. Disasters endanger people, society, environment, infrastructure, and economy in complex, multi-facetted, and interrelated ways. -
Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1
Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1 Edited by Leslie P. Willcocks, Chris Sauer and Mary C. Lacity Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1 This page intentionally left blank Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems: Volume 1 Edited by Leslie P. Willcocks London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Chris Sauer Oxford University, UK and Mary C. Lacity University of Missouri-St Louis, USA Editors Leslie P. Willcocks Chris Sauer London School of Economics and Oxford University Political Science, London, UK Oxford, UK Mary C. Lacity University of Missouri-St Louis St Louis, Missouri, USA ISBN 978-3-319-29265-6 ISBN 978-3-319-29266-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-29266-3 © Association for Information Technology Trust 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-3-319-29265-6 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. -
History 598, Fall 2004
Meeting Time: The seminar will meet Tuesday afternoons, 1:30-4:30, in Dickinson 211 Week I (9/14) Introduction: Jeremy Campbell, Grammatical Man Evelyn Fox Keller, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology Questions and Themes Secondary Lily E. Kay, "Cybernetics, Information, Life: The Emergence of Scriptural Representations of Heredity", Configurations 5(1997), 23-91 [PU online]; and "Who Wrote the Book of Life? Information and the Transformation of Molecular Biology," Week II (9/21) Science in Context 8 (1995): 609-34. Michael S. Mahoney, "Cybernetics and Information Technology," in Companion to the The Discursive History of Modern Science, ed. R. C. Olby et al., Chap.34 [online] Rupture Karl L. Wildes and Nilo A. Lindgren, A Century of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, 1882-1982, Parts III and IV (cf. treatment of some of the Report: Philipp v. same developments in David Mindell, Between Humans and Machines) Hilgers James Phinney Baxter, Scientists Against Time Supplementary John M.Ellis, Against Deconstruction (Princeton, 1989), Chaps. 2-3 Daniel Chandler, "Semiotics for Beginners" Primary [read for overall structure before digging in to the extent you can] Week III (9/28) Warren S. McCulloch and Walter Pitts, "A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity", Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 5(1943), 115-33; repr. in Machines and Warren S. McCulloch, Embodiments of Mind (MIT, 1965), 19-39, and in Margaret A. Nervous Systems Boden (ed.), The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford, 1990), 22-39. Alan M. Turing, "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to Report: Perrin the Entscheidungsproblem", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, ser. -
About the Contributors
About the Contributors Enis Afgan is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, under the supervision of Dr. Purushotham Bangalore. His research interests focus around Grid Computing with the emphasis on user-level scheduling in heterogeneous environments with economic aspects. His other interests include distributed computing, optimization methods, and performance modeling. He received his BS degree in computer science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003. Syed Muhammad Ahsan is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, where he is involved in teaching and research for the last 14 years and has supervised more than 20 MS dissertations. He is doing his PhD in Bioinformatics at U.E.T., Lahore under the supervision of Dr. Abad Ali Shah. He has a bachelor in engineering and a masters in computer science, both form U.E.T., Lahore. Syed Ahsan has more then 15 journal and international research papers to his credit, including this book chapter. He has also refereed five international research papers and has chaired a technical session at IKE, 07, USA. His research interests include Bioinformatics, Semantic Web, Data Provenance and Agile methodologies. He is also the coprincipal investigator for Bioinformatics Resource Facility at U.E.T., Lahore, Pakistan. Krishnakumar Balasubramanian is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include distributed, real-time, and embedded systems; model-driven engineering; the application of MDE to deploy and configure component middleware for DRE systems, and patterns and frameworks for DRE systems development. -
CIUDAD Y PROCESOS URBANOS TITULO: ¿Por Qué AGIL? [*] AUTOR: Niklas Luhmann TRADUCTOR: Ximena J
VOL: AÑO 5, NUMERO 12 FECHA: ENERO-ABRIL 1990 TEMA: CIUDAD Y PROCESOS URBANOS TITULO: ¿Por qué AGIL? [*] AUTOR: Niklas Luhmann TRADUCTOR: Ximena J. Wolff Reyes SECCION: Homenaje a Parsons TEXTO La obra de Talcott Parsons comienza con "La Estructura de la Acción Social" (1937). Durante toda su vida, del análisis de este libro obtuvo Parsons la seguridad de estar en la tradición de la construcción de teoría sociológica y de continuarla mediante el retorno a sus fundamentos. De los componentes del acto unidad (unit act) resultó para él un espacio combinatorio al que ninguna teoría factible puede plantearse agotar. Por ello, considera Parsons que la teoría estructural-funcionalista debería partir de supuestas estructuras para reducir este "espacio newtoniano" a un formato analizable. Por cierto no fue un programa "estático" (conservador) ni tampoco armónico socialmente, como pronto señaló una crítica ligera; pues en el concepto de estructura yace una limitación de las posibilidades pero no una fijación estática de los límites, como tampoco la suposición de una realidad libre de conflictos. Se exige solamente que cuando se trate de cambios sean cambios resultantes de la estructura y cuando sean conflictos se trate de conflictos resultantes de la estructura. Y de hecho: ¿Cómo podría pensarse la realidad de otra manera? Sin embargo, Parsons mismo superó esta fase de la acentuación de las limitaciones estructurales ya en la segunda mitad de los años cincuenta con la elaboración de una tabla de cruces que vio cada vez más como su propia aportación teórica. [1] En una larga conversación pocos días antes de su muerte me aseguró con insistencia que allí quería poner el énfasis. -
Nlewslerrcr July 1995 No.37 2Toocopies
NlewsLErrcR July 1995 No.37 2Toocopies Editor-in-Chief: Gerhard Chroust c/o Systemtechnik und Automation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4040 LinlAustria, e-mai I : CH ROU ST @ S EA. IJN I -Ll NZ.AC.AT, Tel :+43-7 32-2468-865, Fax:+43-732-2468-878 Dear fo:aders! Again I fiaoe to apobgize for a [etay in tfik fuftus[ettet I fiaae 6een interciae{y irno[tte[ in 6otfi tfu Conference an[ tfuEuropean'ESlPltl yrojut (see bsi[e) . I ang[a[ to report tfrat part of tfu tast grQus[etter (fu.36) uas snrcessfu[[y pinte[ in tfu '[1SA an[ [istributel frotn tfure. It saoes manE an[ sfiouf[ ena6[e a prompter le[iaery of tfu fousbtter to our or)erseas members. eart of tfu leky of tfu fiQustetter b a[so fiu to tfie aery sbw subntission oJ topics suitab[e for 'fiQu Trends', Iftis issue's 'furu'Trenls' are conceraed tuitfi a aery interuting EUROCAST on the Rocks proS[em in autonomous ro1otics. Wfun I started tfu '9@u From left to right: Trends' afumn I fiopel to preseflt a ztieu of ruear& Prof. Sato, Japan, Prof. Pichler, Austria, Prof. [irectioru tfiat is as 6roal as possi6k. Anforatnatety I fiaae Takahara, Japan, Prof. Candela-Sola, Spain. rut rueioel many suitaS[e submissbtu. Q[ease re-meru\er trtat EUROCAST'gs. I am ahtays boftng for interatitrg antri|utiors fo, 'fuu trends'. Is your subjut nat wortfiy to 6e presentel? sth lnt. Workshop on Computer Aided I uou[d ogoin remind you tfiat tfu nQusb*er (an[ some Systems Technology (CAST) otfur interating pieus oJ infornation are aaaikSfe ofl May 22-25, 1 995, lnnsbruck, Austria IFSKI 'WW,l-pagu,'Lfu outss is aia tfu A\L @niform fosource Locator) The Fifth lnternational Conference on Computer place the fittp : / / unwtt.s e a. -
Manifesto for General Systems Transdisciplinarity (GSTD)
Manifesto for General Systems Transdisciplinarity (GSTD) Dr David Rousseau, Centre for Systems Philosophy, UK Dr Jennifer Wilby, Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull, UK Julie Billingham, Centre for Systems Philosophy, UK Stefan Blachfellner, Bertalanffy Centre for the Study of the Systems Sciences, Austria The ISSS was founded on an ambition to develop a systems transdiscipline, grounded in a General System Theory (GST), which could be leveraged to build a systemically healthy world that promotes personal dignity, human welfare, international cooperation and environmental stewardship. The ISSS pioneers saw this as an urgently needed response to looming human, social and environmental crises, which at least in part coincide with what we recognise today as the Anthropocene. This ambition and call to action remain as inspiring and pertinent today as they were when the ISSS was founded in 1956 as the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory. The crises anticipated by our founders are now upon us, making the founders’ vision and call to action more pertinent than ever. Over the last two years ISSS members David Rousseau, Jennifer Wilby, Julie Billingham and Stefan Blachfellner have been investigating the possibility of accelerating progress towards a General Systems Transdiscipline (GSTD). This was done by working with: • contributors to the ISSS’s SIG on Systems Philosophy and SIG on Research towards a General Theory of Systems in 2013 and 2014, • participants in a special Symposium of the 2014 European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), • participants in a special 2014 Conversation of the International Federation of Systems Research (IFSR), and • attendees of a 2015 Workshop of the Systems Science Working Group (SysSciWG) of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).