Understanding Complexity -

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Sommaire:
Section One - Theories for Complex Systems.- The Systemic View of the World: The ? Logo of General Systems Research.- Systems Science Fundamental Principles.- A Cosmological Imperative: Emergence of Information, Complexity and Life.- The Co-Creation Hypothesis.- What is Infodynamics?.- Section Two - Emerging Foci on Systems Research and Practice.- The History on Sociocybernetics, RC51, of the International Sociological Association.- Systems Practice at the United Kingdom's Open University.- The WOSC and some Views about Cybernetics.- Presentation of Wiener Gold Medal to Dr. Candace Pert.- Section Three - Human Systems in the 21st Century.- On Misdirected Systems.- The Complexity of Performance and the Instruments of Mastery.- Understanding Imperfection.- Engaging with Transient Complexity in Development Projects.- Meaning Networks and Verbal Communication: A Semiotic Perspective of Human Discourse.- Can Religion be Reconciled with Science?.- Section Four - The Challenge of Sustainability.- The Bridge to Humanity's Future.- Energy, Hierarchy and Money.- Capitalism in the New Millennium: The Challenge of Sustainability.- Section Five - The Art and Science of Forecasting in the Age of Global Warming.- Technological Forecasting and Assessment Tools: The Changing Scene.- Forecasting the Innovation of Complex Technologies.- Making Technology Foresight (and Systems Studies?) Useful.- Section Six - Y2K.- Why the Century Date Change Occurred So Smoothly.- Implications for the Security of the International Information Infrastructure.- Y2K - Ten Months After: Two Double Binds and a Double Blindness.- Section Seven - The Future of Systems Science.- The Future of the Natural Systems Sciences.- Systems Thinking and the Social Sciences.- Systems Thinking forthe 21st Century.- OR 2000: Challenges and Prescriptions for the New Millennium.- Section Eight - ISSS Presidential Addresses.- The Systems Movement and ISSS in the New Millennium.- The Systems Sciences in the Year 3000.- Continuing the Traditions of ISSS - Systems Science in the Service of Humanity.