58Th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

58th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

(ISSS 2014)

Washington, DC, USA

27 July – 1 August 2014

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DEVELOPMENTS IN APPLICATIONS OF SYSTEMIC THEORY AND PRACTICE OVER 50 YEARS OF SYSTEMIC FAMILY THERAPY ...... 1 Peter Stratton

USING REFLECTION AND STORYTELLING TO INFORM EVIDENCE-BASED DECISIONS...... 2 Chivonne Therese Algeo

A SCAFFOLDING STRATEGY FOR HELPING LOWER SECONDARY SCIENCE STUDENTS CONSTRUCT SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS FOR EXPERIMENTAL BASED QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE ...... 18 Deborah Goh, Zulaiha Shireen

CULTIVATION OF PERCEPTION AND CREATIVITY BY REPEATING SOFT SYSTEMS APPROACH ...... 43 Taketoshi Yoshida

BEYOND SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHYFURTHER CONCEPTUAL TRENDS IN THE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY FROM SYSTEMS PHILOSOPHY TO A PHILOSOPHY OF SCHEMAS...... 49 Kent Duane Palmer

A QUALITATIVE TRANSDISCIPLINARY PARTICIPATORY ACTIONRESEARCH APPROACH, TOWARD THE SYSTEMIC TRANSFORMATION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS...... 66 Ignacio E Peon-Escalante

AN ACTION RESEARCH STUDY ON USING ELEGANT TASKS FOR PRIMARY ONE PUPILS TO LEARN ART ...... 74 Fiona Poh-Lim

ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN PROJECT TEAMS...... 109 Mary C Edson, Gary S Metcalf

USING ACTION RESEARCH TO IMPLEMENT AN ORAL DISCOURSE APPROACH FOR TEACHING COMPOSITION WRITING...... 144 Christina Hsui Peng Wong

AN APPROACH FOR SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE BY UNDERSTANDING VALUE REQUIREMENTS, DEVELOPING VALUE PROPOSITION, AND SUBSEQUENTLY REALIZING VALUE ...... 178 Anand Kumar, Doji Samson Lokku, Nikhil Ravindranath Zope

DEVELOPMENTS IN CRITICAL SYSTEMS THEORY: ON PARADIGMS AND INCOMMENSURABILITY ...... 199 Todd David Bowers

SYSTEM DUALITY: BIRATIONAL HIERARCHY ...... 215 Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson, Roger Vounckx

LEADERSHIP ISSUES IN MEDIUM SCALE ACEPHALOUS GROUPS...... 224 Victor Ronald David MacGill

SECURITY FROM A SYSTEMS THINKING PERSPECTIVE - APPLYING SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY TO THE ANALYSIS OF AN INFORMATION SECURITY INCIDENT...... 239 Bilal AlSabbagh, Stewart Kowalski

STUDY ON IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT AT A POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE...... 256 Hatsue Wada, Taketoshi Yoshida

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY...... 266 Fabiana Crespo

SYSTEMS THINKING FOR STRENGTHENING NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN SOUTH KOREA ...... 287 Yeon-soo(Youn-soo) Shim(Sim)

IMMERSIVE AND INTERACTIVE ELEARNING IN UNIVERSITIES ...... 291 Elvira Avalos-Villarreal

AN EVOLUTIONARY FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION: AN INTEGRAL, POSTHUMAN PERSPECTIVE...... 297 Brett R. Joseph

A CONCEPTUAL MODEL OF SYSTEMS THINKING LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES ...... 322 Anne Powel Davis

INTENTION IN INTERVENTION: A CONCEPTUAL MODEL ...... 344 Jorge Ivan Velez-Castiblanco

GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY: TOWARDS THE UNIFICATION OF SCIENCE ...... 359 Manuel Pretel Wilson

DESIGN RESEARCH METHODS FOR SYSTEMIC DESIGN: PERSPECTIVES FROM DESIGN EDUCATION AND PRACTICE...... 374 Peter Jones

A SYSTEMS VIEW OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: EXPLORATION FOR SIMPLE RULES OF INTERACTION TO EXPLAIN COMMUNITY RESISTANCE IN LANDFILL SITING SITUATIONS ...... 382 Phil Cook

THE ROMAC PROGRAM: MANAGING COMPLEX “FAMILY” CRISIS PROJECTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC...... 400 Shankar Sankaran

SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION METRICS BASED ON TIME DISTORTION AND PROFIT...... 411 Fabian von Scheele, Darek M Haftor

ADVANCING THE SOCIAL SCIENCE PARADIGM SHIFT: BOULDING’S TYPOLOGY, TPO THEORY AND THE TRIPLE ACTION ROUNDTABLE...... 426 Susan Farr Gabriele

A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO BUSINESS PROCESS EVOLUTION ...... 456 Kevin G Doyle

SYSTEMIC PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL DYSPLASIA OF THE HIP IN CHILDREN...... 484 Benjamín Araujo, Luis Manuel Hernández Simón, Victor Manuel, Domininguez Hernández

ADVERSE SELECTION BEHAVIOR AND COUNTERACTING MECHANISMS IN E- COMMERCE MARKET: CASE STUDY FROM TAOBAO.COM CHINA...... 495 Yong Pan

EXPLORING THE VARIETY OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE IN THE CLASSROOMS OF HIGHER EDUCATION...... 503 Isaias José Badillo, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros

VALIDATING MODELS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH...... 522 Amber Dawn Elkins, Dennis Michael Gorman

A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION...... 533 Berna Leticia Valle Canales

GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY THROUGH LINGUISTIC MODELLING...... 544 Janos Korn

TIME AND DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES: THE IMPACT OF ACTION BASED LEARNING...... 572 Susu Nousala

TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT THROUGH SPACE AGENCIES ...... 575 Cirilo Gabino León Vega, Oscar Dolores Vázquez, Luis Alejandro Iturri Hinojosa

LEVERAGE POINTS IN SYSTEMIC CHANGE, AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF MEADOWS TAXONOMY...... 584 John Vodonick

SYNTROPY AND SUSTAINABILITY...... 596 Ulisse Di Corpo

ROOTS OF SUSTAINABILITY IN ANCIENT INDIA...... 614 John J Kineman, Deepak Anand

TECHNOLOGY AS AN OBSERVING SYSTEM: A 2ND ORDER CYBERNETICS APPROACH...... 653 Dionysios S Demetis

SYRIA, SOFT POWER AND RESPONSES TO IMPASSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SITUATIONS...... 669 Dennis Finlayson

KNOWING DIFFERENTLY IN SYSTEMIC INTERVENTION ...... 672 Raghav Rajagopalan

KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND PROFESSIONAL ONLINE COMMUNITIES ACCEPTANCE: AN INTEGRATED MODEL ...... 694 Mohammed Montash, Ashish Dwivedi, Richard Vidgen

A CRITICAL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE ON RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR RESEARCH IN E-LEARNING IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS CLASSES...... 707 Roelien Goede

HYBRID METHODOLOGY FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF A KNEE TUMOR PROSTHESIS ...... 727 Aideé Huerta, Luis Manuel Hernández, Victor Manuel Domínguez

SYSTEMIC APPROACH FOR CHANGE AGENT - A NEGOTIATED EVALUATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA ...... 743 Charles Tong-lit Leung

ENHANCING LEAN INTERVENTIONS THROUGH THE USE OF SYSTEMS THINKING IN THE FOOD PRODUCTION INDUSTRY: A CASE IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA...... 751 Daniel Ebakoleaneh Ufua, Thanos Papadopoulos, Gerald Midgley

BRINGING FORESIGHT INTO SYSTEMS THINKING: A THREE HORIZON APPROACH ...... 775 Anthony Hodgson, Gerald Midgley

A COMPLEMENTARIST APPROACH TO LEAN SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT...... 787 Javier Calvo-Amodio, Shannon Flumerfelt, Christopher Hoyle

TOWARDS THE COMPOSITION OF THE COMMUNITY SYSTEM IN THE POLITICAL PRACTICE OF TOURISM IN THE STATE OF HIDALGO, MEXICO ...... 796 Abraham Briones-Juarez, Erika Cruz-Coria, Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla

USING BOUNDARY GAMES TO ANALYSE ACTOR'S INTERACTIONS ...... 816 Luz Maria Rivas

REDUCING ACQUISITION COST BY MINIMIZING THE REQUIREMENTS SOLUTION SPACE...... 837 Bradford A. Logan

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR THE MEXICAN SATELLITE SYSTEM ...... 847 Cirilo Gabino León Vega

ANALYSIS OF HURST EXPONENT AND THE FRACTAL DIMENSION OF SEISMIC ACTIVITY OCCURRED IN THE COCOS PLATE, MEXICO...... 861 Julian Patiño-Ortiz, Alexander S Balankin, Miguel Patiño-Ortiz, Isaías Badillo Piña, Ricardo Carreño-Aguilera, Felipe Gayosso Martínez, Juan F Sabas G.

ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, APPLYING THE COMPLEX THEORY OF LEADERSHIP...... 869 Claudio Marcelo Gamero Henríquez, Ricardo Acevedo Almonacid

SYSTEMIC DESIGN OF A SLIDING MODE BASED MODEL FOR ANALYZING THE PERFORMANCE OF AN ACOUSTIC SENSOR...... 875 Miguel Patiño-Ortiz, Ricardo Carreño-Aguilera

TOWARD THE STRUCTURING OF MEANINGS OF THE MEXICAN DAY OF THE DEATH RITUAL, UNDER A COMPLEX SYSTEMS APPROACH...... 884 Berna Leticia Valle Canales, Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, Isaías Badillo-Piña, Ricardo Tejeida Padilla, Ignacio Peón Escalante

A RELATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE ...... 899 John Kineman

A SYSTEMIC GRC MATURITY MODEL...... 902 Emir Hernando Pernet

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