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Niewsletttter December 1996 Vol NIewsLETTTTER December 1996 vol. 15, no 4 1trto. +s; 2500 copies Editor-in-Chief: Gerhard Chroust c/o Systemtechnik und Automation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4O4O LinzlAustria, e-mail: CHROUSToSEA.UNI-LlNZ.AC.AT, Tel:+43-732-2468-865, Fax:+43-732-2468-87B www-hom e page : http://www.sea. u n i -l i nz. ac. atlif s ri significantly... But "growth" means only an 'Dettr '\ettfers ! increase in "quantity". And the challenge we face A Mcrry Cftri-sbnas ttnd' t ll.nppy fuw'/cor I in the new year is to transform such "growth" into an increase in "quality". '14)c rrrrt proud'[y sec tltc I fSl& fuwsLttilr is n lrtl'L cstobLisfter[ sourca of in;fonnoiotr.'14)e rtre hr Joct ca[ebrating It is aspiring for quality that has guided us to tlrr 15tfi ycar o;f its pub[icatiort (_f:irst is.sue it 19ii1!,1 . It rtfso initiate the establishment of several working rttcttrr.s tlitt thr: 1lfS-\itse[J [oofrs bacllrtt a pruud lii-ttoty committees, expected to address programmatic t6 yL'rr: irr tlit scruict of tfic systtrrrs corntnurtity. and organizational issues that will add substance the lif the Federation. ln our next I zuou[r{ [ifte to tlianft ,Isu[ [.P. lt{anifra ( fr 1955) , tlic to e of Newsietter we shall report on the status of the editor anl ako Dr.Stepfun Sol<ph/f, wfro ;fourdirtS member Qau[, atd ako fufpe[ me to continue. committees. We hope that our organizations will offer their contribution by Sone irrnortatioru l:taue 6eefl uts6[bfu[: We pint part oJ tfu participating. e[itiort irt tfu usn relucirg tfu 'tlme-to-marlQ:t' for o?)erceas mlembers.'LUe owe tftanfu to Qor[on -fuw[and zufia lias unr[ertafo:n tfu job oJ prinnrtg anl mai[irtg in tfu USA. menbersfrip of IFSKis growitg an[ ute arc happy to 6u.. 'rfit -.lvi:i9-.* "\ presutt o [ong account 6y one of our [atut members (tfit ' '5 AIRg). Ahl'wugtt tfik artic[e k prima aista a r[esciptiorr tfu AI'N;, it is actua[[y an e4ce[[ent [uctiptiort of tfu state of systens mooement. I want to tfranfr QianJranco fl[inati Jor tfik c4'ccfhnt contri6urion. /ours sirrcerefil jcrfar[ cfirousr 5q s temtechni llun d Automation 'lofiannes il@p[er llniaersitq Liru, 4040 Litrz, Austtia Another challenge is to ensure the long-range A Meaar,Poyr,truAs viability of Systems Research, the journal of our Federation. lt can be "ours" only if each and every member organization supporis it. The HappY New Yeaa 1997 support means that each member organization Standing at the threshold of a new year offers an calls upon it membership to subscribe for the opportunity of reflections upon the achievement journal. lt is the best means to keep up with new of the past and contemplation of future work and and emerging developments in systems scholar- new challenges. Continuously striving for ship and systems applications. The membership journal "quality" seems to characterize our work and of member organizations receives the at service of the last couple of years. Exceptionally highly reduced rate. The royalties from the quality is well demonstrated in each and every publisher provide resources to IFSR that are issue of Systems Research - the official journal invested in service lo our member organizations. of IFSR - under Mike Jackson, Editor-in-Chief As we approach 1997, members of our and our Vice-President. The same high quality is Executive Committee pledge continuing reflected in our ever more informative News- commitment to high quality service and wish you letter, under the editorship of Gerhard Chroust, all success for the coming year. who also serves as our Secretary/Treasurer. H.'tsanatlty The Fuschl Conversations continue to explore 'tsa[a and bring to life significant theoretical and practical issues. Our membership has grown NEW TRENDS AIRS: AssocrnztoNE lrRuRlvR pER LA RlceRcR sut Slsreur (ltalian Assoc. for Research on Systems) Gianfranco Minati 10, Vle Jenner 20'159 - Milan - ltaly tel. & fax +39 2 608 1122E-Mail:[email protected] objects, particularly because, being AIRS acts in the context of the international there more the systemic movement and collaborates with the they and more computer-based, ability to process data, communicate, and most important research institutes in this field. to to store (text, sound, picture) is increasing; AIRS is a non-prof it, cultural association. AIRS strictly collaborates with the Fondazione . biology requires theoretical f rameworks Barbarini e Centoni per la Correlazione to compatible and consistent with organicism design, to carry out, and to use methodologies and complexity. ln psychology the Gestalt and tools based on Systemics (for Education, concept has been introduced: Sets and Management, Ethics, Computer Science, Systems emerge as different constructs, not Psychology, as well as Linguistics and to be confused, because in this case a lack of Medicine). AIRS plans to activate and to support eftectiveness results as a consequence; the research and the interaction between people . the General System Theory or Systemics with different disciplinary knowledge, also at rises with peculiar finality to identify and to different levels, and aims to explore, to identify study interactions and analogies and to induce inter- and trans-disciplinary views. (isomorphisms) between disciplines CULTURAL BASIS AND PURPOSES independent of their particular applications: ln the history of human activity there have been the theoretical centrality of the human being, part different moments and stages during which as a crucial and active of logical devices, interest has moved from objects to the is outlined (from randomness to relationships between them, also to their arbitrariness). interdependence as a fundamental source for . the formalization processes gives birth to explaining behavior and for increasing the mathematical tools such as the ones of the effectiveness of our actions. Human knowledge niathematics of complexity, luzzy sets, neural moved from focussing on the concept of Set to networks, ...); focussing on the concept of System. ln the . in physics the topics of complexity emerge. scientific and technological domain we are able They call for concepts based on Systemics: to realize and to recognize the following steps: openness, self-organization, and attractors in . from the classic monodisciplinary research the logical sense, not only in the have emerged the topics of self-regulation, at thermodynamic sense. the beginning materialized in mechanical TOWARDS SYSTEMICS apparatuses (Watt's automatic engine) and later in electrical and electronic ones (feed- The distance between the Monodisciplinary, back and black-box concepts, belonging to Multidisciplinary, lnterdisciplinary, and Trans- controltheory); disciplinary approaches illustrates the emergence process of the Systemic view: . the concept of "field" has emerged as well as the interest for the study of interactions; . the monodisciplinary vision constitutes the most primitive approach to problems. lt is . thanks to cybernetics, the concept of based on separation, isolation and regulation has been expanded, for example specialization. The ideal framework is based to the physiology, and to problems such as on the focus on a single object, and on the the ones dealing with learning and focus on single separate components. The perception; cultural and scientific world is based on . information theory has studied the interaction objectivism. The need to overcome as an exchange of information among specialization doesn't mean to deny or to reject them but it concerns both their has been realized. The uniqueness of the utilization and the form of their generation. human being has been recognized as We could say that a new discipline, "a generating theories and reality more than just discipline of the disciplines", emerges (a kind discovering them. The human being is not of 'hosting connective tissue"). The process anymore just a passive, silent, and "noise- of changing f rom the classic and linear generating" observer but a producer of disciplinary vision to the systemic one has reality. ln this f ramework achievements, various steps: unimaginable when using the classical disciplinary approach, are designable and the multidisciplinary vision is based on achievable, such as in education, computer disciplines, each one close to the other, science, psychology, management, medicine managed by a director with an objective (i.e. processing. a manager). For example, in a project and semantics focusing on telecommunication, according to . The systemic view is often not made explicit the classic managerial approach, a set of in the field of humanistic and artistic activities. disciplines such as engineering, First of all, because of a reduced hegemony jurisprudence, economics and physics has to will of the single disciplines, and secondly, be managed. But disciplines communicate because of their lack of explanatory and with one another only by referring to each theoretical will. However organicism, holism, single problem; and systemic view are at least recognizable, even if they are not explicit, in the interdisciplinary vision is based on such disciplines as arts, philosophy, history, interacting disciplines, engaged in a mutual anthropology, archeology, jurisprudence. dialogue, one's own problems becoming also Ways of thinking, not emerging from the the problems of one other with the same classical scientific view, may be considered happening for relevant solutions. There is, at within the f ramework suggested by the least, a communication ol methodologies comparison of "cognitive arls" vs. sciences. between them. lnterdisciplinarity is often a cultural view enabling the design based on a The focus on the centrality of the human being, synthesis of single disciplines, thus going viewed at least as the unique "device" able to beyond multidisciplinarity; produce knowledge and to design usage for it, is due to theoretical and not only practical reasons. the transdisciplinary vision doesn't focus on a The shattering of the whole into disciplines is kind of objectivistic "cognitive anxiety", but is strongly related to reducing the mind to brain based on the theoretical centrality of the activity.
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