Second Generation General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems
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Beschreibung
Following the classical work of Norbert Wiener, Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy and many others, the concept of System has been elaborated in different disciplinary fields, allowing interdisciplinary approaches in areas such as Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Economics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy. The new challenge of Complexity and Emergence has made the concept of System even more relevant to the study of problems with high contextuality. This Special Issue focuses on the nature of new problems arising from the study and modelling of complexity, their eventual common aspects, properties and approaches—already partially considered by different disciplines—as well as focusing on new, possibly unitary, theoretical frameworks. This Special Issue aims to introduce fresh impetus into systems research when the possible detection and correction of mistakes require the development of new knowledge. This book contains contributions presenting new approaches and results, problems and proposals. The context is an interdisciplinary framework dealing, in order, with electronic engineering problems; the problem of the observer; transdisciplinarity; problems of organised complexity; theoretical incompleteness; design of digital systems in a user-centred way; reaction networks as a framework for systems modelling; emergence of a stable system in reaction networks; emergence at the fundamental systems level; behavioural realization of memoryless functions.
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Gianfranco Minati
Gianfranco Minati, graduated in Mathematics from the University of Milano. He has switched from an executive position in a large industrial–financial Italian group (1979–1984) to Research. He is the founder (1996) and president of the Italian Systems Society http://www.airs.it; president of the European Union for Systemics http://www.ues-eus.eu/; doctoral lecturer at the Polytechnic of Milan http://www.abc.polimi.it/fileadmin/abc/images/news/PHD_event/phdcourse0170209.pdf. In the US, he was a member of the Consulting Faculty at the Saybrook University, San Francisco, and adjunct faculty at the OHIO State University (OSU). His research activities deal with collective behaviour; dynamic usage of models; emergence; ergodicity; logical openness; mesoscopic coherence; meta-structures; multiple-systems; quasi-systems; systems science; theoretical incompleteness. Author of 40 articles, 15 books, 32 chapters in edited books, and editor of seven books. For more information, see http://www.gianfrancominati.net/.
Themen in »Second Generation General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems«
Approach Coherence Complexity Computation Cybernetic Design Emergence Incompleteness Irreversibility Memory Less Functions Meta-Structures Noise Non-Linearity Observer Organisations