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GENERAL SYSTEMS BULLETINVOLUME XXXXII, 2013

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMS SCIENCEShttp://isss.org/world

Alexander Laszlo, PresidentSebastapol, CA, USA

alexander@syntonyquest.org

Jennifer WilbyBulletin Editor

47 Southfield RoadPocklington, York, YO42 2XE, England

Email: isssoffice@dsl.pipex.comTel: +44(0)1759-302718 Fax: +44(0)1759-302718

Pamela Buckle Henning, Secretary, VP ProtocolBusiness School, Adelphi University

1 South Avenue, PO Box 701Garden City, NY 11530-0701, USA

buckle@adelphi.edu

ISSN: 0016-6588

OFFICERS AND UNITS OF THE ISSS ...................................................................................................... 3

SECTION ONE: PAPERSIncreasing the Range and Reach of the Systems Sciences: A Call to Reinvigorate the Systems Movement ..................................................................................................................... 5

SECTION TWO: MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES ............................................................................... 13

SECTION THREE: ISSS BUSINESS (Announcements, Minutes of Meetings, Financial Reports) .......... 21

SECTION FOUR: MEMBERS' BULLETIN BOARD ................................................................................ 31

SECTION FIVE: MEMBERSHIP LISTING ................................................................................................ 33

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OFFICERS AND UNITS OF THE

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMS SCIENCES (ISSS)

MICHAEL SINGER, VP FundsSanta Cruz, CA USA

PAMELA BUCKLE, Secretary and VP ProtocolAdelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA

SHANKAR SANKARAN, VP Research and Publications UTS, Sydney, Australia

NAM NGUYEN, VP Membership and ConferencesUniversity of Adelaide, Australia

OCKIE BOSCH, VP for Communications and Systems EducationUniversity of Adelaide, Australia

ALEXANDER LASZLO, President (2012-2013) Sebastapol, CA, USA

DAVID ING, Past President (2011-2012)IBM, Toronto, Canada

GERALD MIDGLEY, President Elect (2013-2014)University of Hull, UK

DEBORA HAMMOND, Board of Trustees RepresentativeCal. State University, Sonoma, CA USA

JENNIFER WILBY, VP AdministrationUniversity of Hull, Hull, UK

1956 Origin of the Society 1957 Kenneth Boulding (also ’58)1959 Charles McClelland (’60, ’61)1962 Ross Ashby (’63,’64) 1965 Anatol Rapoport 1966 Peter J. Caws* 1967 John M. Milsum 1968 Milton Rubin 1969 Lawrence Slobodkin 1970 Bertram Gross 1971 Stafford Beer 1972 Margaret Mead 1973 James G. Miller 1974 Gordon Pask1975 Kjell Samuelson*1976 Heinz von Foerster1977 Sir Geoffrey Vickers

1978 Richard Ericson1979 Brian Gaines*1980 Robert Rosen1981 George Klir*1982 John Warfield1983 Karl Deutsch1984 Bela H. Banathy1985 John Dillon1986 Peter B. Checkland*1987 Russell L. Ackoff 1988 Ilya Prigogine1989 C. West Churchman1990 Len Troncale*1991 Howard T. Odum1992 Ian I. Mitroff* 1993 Hal Linstone*1994 J.D.R. de Raadt*

1995 Ervin Laszlo*1996 Yong Pil Rhee1997 G.A. Swanson1998 Bela A. Banathy*1999 Peter Corning*2000 Harold Nelson*2001 Michael Jackson*2002 Aleco Christakis*2003 Kenneth D. Bailey*2004 Enrique G. Herrscher*2005 Debora Hammond*2006 Kyoichi Kijima*2007 Gary Metcalf*2008 Timothy FH Allen*2009 Allenna Leonard*2010 Jennifer Wilby*2011 David Ing*

* Denotes Board of Trustees

1. Argentina: Charles Francois

2. Australia: Ockie Bosch

3. Canada, Eastern: H. Ken Burkhardt

4. California, Los Angeles: Carl Slawski

5. California, Northern: Steve Wallis

6. Southern Region: Janet K. Allen

7. Japan: Kyoichi Kijmia

8. Korea, Seoul: Jae E Yu

9. Brazil (ALAS): Ernesto Lleras

Formations of new Chapters (Country or Regional) are welcomed. Please contact the ISSS Office for additional information.

ISSS COUNCILThe Council consists of Board members, Trustees, Chairs of SIGs and the Country and Regional Chairs of Chapters.

PAST PRESIDENTS: (Council of Distinguished Advisors)

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SPECIAL INTEGRATION GROUPS

SIG CHAIRS and LIAISON OFFICERS

SIG Name SIG Chair Contact EmailAction Research Shankar Sankaran shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.auAgent-based Social Systems Shingo Takahashi shingo@waseda.jpBalancing Individualism and Collectivism Janet McIntyre janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.auCritical Systems Theory & Practice Jennifer Wilby isssoffice@dsl.pipex.comDesigning Educational Systems Ockie Bosch obosch@adelaide.edu.auEvolutionary Development Alexander Laszlo info@syntonyquest.org

Health and Systems Thinking Thomas Wong isss@ed-balance.orgHierarchy Theory Billy Dawson billyd11@aol.comHuman Systems Inquiry Shankar Sankaran shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.auInformation Systems Design and Information Technology

Bela Banathy babanathy@yahoo.com

ISSS Roundtable Sue Gabriele sgabriele@gemslearning.comLiving Systems Analysis Jim Simms jrsimms@juno.comOrganisational Transformation and Social Change

Maurice Yolles prof.m.yolles@gmail.com

Relational Science John Kineman john.kineman@colorado.eduResearch Towards General Theories of Systems

Vince Vesterby thegeneralist@themoderngeneralist.com

Socio-Ecological Systems Vince Lopes vl12@txstate.eduSpirituality and Systems Carl Swanson CarlT.Swanson@gmail.comStudents SIG Anne Stephens stephens.liley@gmail.comSystemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises Dennis Finlayson / Jae

Yudennisfinlayson56@yahoo.com

Systemic Approaches to Persistent Poverty and Disadvantage

Yiheyis Maru and Ockie Bosch

Yiheyis.maru@csiro.au

Systems Applications in Business and Industry

Louis Klein louis.klein@segroup.de

Systems Biology and Evolution Len Troncale lrtroncale@csupomona.eduSystems and Mental Health Tamar Zohar Harel and

Pamela Buckle Henningtzoharel@macam.ac.ilbuckle@adelphi.edu

Systems Modeling and Simulation Janet Singer jsinger@soe.ucsc.eduSystems Pathology Len Troncale lrtroncale@csupomona.edu

LIAISON OFFICERSIFSR: Gary Metcalf and Jennifer WilbyINCOSE: Janet SingerSystem Dynamics: Jennifer Wilby

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SECTION ONEEDITORIALS, PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE

INCREASING THE RANGE AND REACH OF THE SYSTEMS SCIENCES:

A CALL TO REINVIGORATE THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT

Incoming Presidential Address for the 57th Meeting & Conference of the ISSS

Alexander Laszlo, Ph.D.*

Syntony Quest http://syntonyquest.org

&

The Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University http://giordanobrunouniversity.com

Introduction

Fifty-eight years ago, our modern day Systems Movement coalesced at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in connection with the AAAS (the American Association for the Advance-ment of Science). That initiative in 1954 saw the founding of the first iteration of the ISSS a year later. This was the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory which held its first formal conference in 1956. Its founders, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Ralph Gerard and Anatol Rapoport, with the involvement of James Grier Miller, formally established the Society for General Systems Research two years after that, in 1957. Since then it has undergone two more name changes to reflect changes in its scale and scope. In 1962 it became the International Society for General Systems Research, and in 1988 it was renamed the International Society for the Systems Sciences.1 However, as the primary vehicle for the advancement of the Systems Movement, the reason for the existence of this society is as relevant today as it was at the time of its founding.

Since its inception, the Systems Movement has focused on the need for a humanly relevant science, ca-pable of addressing the pressing needs of a burgeoning humanity seemingly plagued by increasing levels of complexity and interdependence. Some might argue that nothing could be more relevant to contemporary concerns, and many here might well agree. Yet the world was a vastly different place when the Movement began than it is today, the implication being that while still relevant to the concerns of humanity, the nature and focus of the Movement need to evolve.

The Relevance of the Systems Movement: the early years

In the middle of last century, the world was rebounding from two World Wars and entering a period of po-litical, economic, industrial and religious might. A new era of geo-politics was under way and the need for systems of command and control brought Operations Research and the RAND Corporation into the lime-light of the Systems Movement. For all intents and purposes, there were no limits to growth, no serious concerns regarding the environment, and while population growth and overshoot have long been an area of interest to demographers and economists alike, they were still considered relatively benign issues at that time.2 The management sciences continued to draw heavily on the works of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henri Fayol, even as they laid the basis for what Michael Porter later termed the competitive advantage of nations. The United Nations had recently been established as the offspring of the League of Nations, set up as a supra-national system for governing relations among the sovereign nation-states of the world – a mandate fraught with systemic challenges from its inception.

The need to understand – and manage – systems of increasing complexity and interdependence, and to construct both organizational and physical systems of ever greater scale and scope, was paramount to the challenges faced by a globalizing humanity in that day and age. A premium was placed on the capacity to model, plan, design and implement systems that were efficient, effective, and efficacious in their instrumen-tality. Given the dominance of the machine metaphor for life and all things systemic, it was not surprising for there to be such an emphasis on ends planning over means planning, as described so well by Russell

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Ackoff.3 He pointed out that “in the Machine Age, even human beings were thought of as machines. In the Systems Age, even machines are thought of as parts of purposeful systems.”4

The Relevance of the Systems Movement: contemporary concerns

The 1950s also saw the emergence of a series of interdisciplinary endeavors in areas such as the man-agement sciences, information sciences, computer sciences, decision sciences, cybernetics, peace and conflict studies, policy studies, and other areas. Inquiry at the nexus of disciplinary boundaries became of particular interest, and degree programs in areas such as bio-physics, ethno-botany, geo-politics and other interdisciplinary endeavors abounded. At the same time, multidisciplinary task forces were more common and frequent features of large-scale research projects that sought to explore complex evolutionary or devel-opmental phenomena from a variety of perspectives. Yet the disciplinary boundaries of academia proved to be so high and robust as to resist the widespread permeation of truly transdisciplinary study as offered by the systems sciences. Inroads were made here and there, especially with the popularization of the sciences of complexity – what were dubbed the New Sciences in the 1970s and 80s, including non-linear thermodynam-ics, complex adaptive systems theory, chaos theory, and second order cybernetics. However, dedicated academic programs of systems science remained few and far between in the world of formal education. The ISSS continued to offer a periodic playground for the advancement of systems ideas and applications every year, and has been a beacon to the systems movement, providing it with continuity and lineage.

Real-World Challenges to the Systems Movement

It is a truism to state that our world is ever more interconnected, interrelated, and interdependent. We just witnessed RIO+20, an effort that exemplifies what has been labeled as “the insipid progress” of international efforts to address global thrivability concerns.5 At the same time, we continue with plans to expand the hegemony of our species even beyond the bounds of this planet, with ambitious projects such as the private Mars One initiative where “the schedule is to establish a human settlement on Mars by 2023.”6

The progress of farreaching social structures with powerful technologies has allowed us to change the face of the earth, and now we’re already looking to Mars for further conquest. Historically speaking, humankind has more or less consciously pursued the strategy of adapting the environment to its needs in order to gain mastery over nature. We have molded and modified our surroundings however we please in order to be more comfortable. By the second decade of the third millennium, this strategy of adapting the environment to us in accordance with our every whim has brought us to the threshold of the carrying capacity of the life support systems of planet Earth, and many would even say already well beyond.

It would be incorrect to assume that the only alternative to adapting the environment to us would be to adapt ourselves to the environment. And yet, there are those who argue that it is the only way forward, pointing out that “you hear about the death of nature and it’s true, but nature will be able to reconstitute itself once the top of the food chain is loped off — meaning us.”7 In other words, since life may actually go on much better without human beings, our greatest contribution to cosmic evolution may be to ensure a healthy planetary ecosystem by removing its prime threat — the human race!

This is not a strategy for the inclusive fitness of human beings. Fortunately, as this 56th ISSS conference on Service Systems, Natural Systems has brilliantly brought to light, the systems sciences suggest possible alternatives. One of the main challenges to humanity at this juncture in our collective history is to find sys-temic alternatives to either adapting the world to us or adapting ourselves to the world. The options in this direction must promote systemic sustainability, that is, integral approaches to human relationships between ourselves and other systems based on co-adaptation — strategies for adapting with the world, rather than either adapting ourselves to it or forcing it to adapt to us.

The Next Stage of the Systems Movement: Curating a Systems Consciousness

If the Systems Movement to date can be said by and large to have been concerned with systems thinking and systems practice, in Peter Checkland’s succinct expression of the field, the next stage of the Movement will focus on systems consciousness and systems being. Far from precluding areas of systemic endeavor that tend toward more quantitative, symbolic, or pragmatic concerns, this focus asks all systems scientists to move toward truly living their vocation. The challenge of our times is to cultivate the requisite relational intel-ligence to allow us to embody and enact into the world the systems we so brilliantly describe and create.

The Systems Movement has seen so much of our time, effort and attention taken up with describing, modeling and mapping the dynamics of complexity in the world around us. As systems scientists, we have become consummate cartographers, explicating the topography of change at all systems levels. What an important

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role we have been playing in the world, bridging experiential knowing and practical knowing with propositional knowing and presentational knowing!8 It is essential that the Systems Movement continue to foster this work, to explicate the structures and functions of our world, elucidating the patterns and processes that lead to a navigable world of relationships amidst flows of increasing dynamic complexity. And now it is time for us to expand the range and reach of the systems sciences by adding to and enriching the Systems Move-ment through the cultivation of a conscious commitment to the domain of relational awareness – curating a systems consciousness that aligns the theories, practices, designs and experiences we create with the way we embody them as dynamically intertwingled living systems in our own right.

Systems consciousness emerges from and also nests relational intelligence. The cultivation of relational ways of being builds on the principles, perspectives, and practices at the heart of the Systems Movement. In 1995, Daniel Goleman came out with his work on Emotional Intelligence as one way of moving beyond the rational mind, the conceptual frame of things, helping us become more sense-able.9 He followed that up with the notion of Social Intelligence, and then with Ecological Intelligence.10 More recently, Dana Zo-har has worked with the notion of Spiritual Intelligence,11 and of course, Howard Gardner has his classical model of multiple intelligences dating from 1983,12 which includes Naturalistic Intelligence (nature smarts), Musical Intelligence (musical smarts), Logical-Mathematical Intelligence (number/reasoning smarts), Exis-tential Intelligence (being/knowing smarts), Interpersonal Intelligence (people smarts), Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (body smarts), Linguistic Intelligence (word smarts), Intra-personal Intelligence (self smarts), and Spatial Intelligence (picture smarts). Each author presents a robust and enticing platform for different ways of knowing, with each type of intelligence essentially providing different access to consciousness.

From a systems perspective, the problem is that all these forms of intelligence are separate. You can ac-cess and employ one or the other, and perhaps if you have “mastered” them all you would be able to switch between them in order to interpret and understand a given situation or phenomenon from various angles. In other words, they present the same siloed and serial framing perspective as does multi-disciplinarity in the academic world. The Systems Movement has helped put transdisciplinarity on the map, searching for, surfacing, and connecting the isomorphisms of disciplinary contiguity across a broad range of study of any given phenomena or event. The challenge, then, is to expand this effort to the domain of embodied and enacted human consciousness, bridging from the academic concern with disciplinarity to the relational concern with manifest intelligence. While the concern for trans-disciplinarity remains vitally important to the Systems Movement, it is time for us also to include concern for trans-intelligence: the capacity to engage a higher consciousness that synergizes the various forms of intelligence exemplified by recent studies in consciousness and related fields into one holistic engagement with experience.

Coherence, Thrivability and Conviviality – Key Concepts in Systems Consciousness

Recent studies in molecular physics have surfaced interesting insights into the conditions that give rise to spectacular patterns of emergence within and among complex adaptive systems. For instance, it is now un-derstood that liquid water is made up of networks of “coherence domains” — regions in which the molecules act in phase. This is called coherence. What is interesting and particularly significant for the dynamics of thrivability is that when sets of coherence domains come into coherence among themselves, an emergent phenomenon known as “super-coherence” occurs. As it turns out, only dissipative systems — ones capable of exporting to their environment the entropy they produce — are capable of super-coherence. A system composed of super-coherent sub-systems is highly resonant. That is, it carries, sustains, and conveys patterns of health and wellbeing so long as it is not actively destabilized in its resonant milieu. When brought to the level of human social and societal systems, this phenomenon is expressed in terms of hyper-connectivity.

Ross Dawson describes the phenomenon of hyper-connectivity as an emergent property of our globalizing sets of relationships.13 As we become ever more intertwingled, the potential for super-coherence among the social systems in which we live, conduct business, and manipulate our environment offers the promise of deep conviviality. The levels of thrivability inherent in these super-coherent social systems could potentially reach such high levels as to suggest the emergence of societal super-organisms. These living networks of convivial communities of practice, of interest, and of place lay the foundation for the emergence of a global eco-civilization in which humanity takes on the role of curators of planetary thrivability. And it is in service of the emergence of such networks that the Systems Movement can most powerfully move in the coming years.

However, the dynamics of change could just as easily go in the other direction. What emerges as syn-ergetic intertwinglement when thrivability is consciously curated can degrade toward negative synergetic entanglement when myopic and ego-centric perspectives dominate. Without a systemic framework of

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relational intelligence that consciously nurtures super-coherence in our societal systems, and coherence at the individual level of our psycho-emotional selves, we run the risk of creating ever larger networks of dysfunctionality. Key to such a systems consciousness is the focus on coherence domains in the context of the living environment of human beings.

There are four coherence domains for human thrivability:

At the first coherence domain – conviviality with oneself; personal or internal thrivability – the practices involve centering, quieting the monkey-mind, listening with every cell of our being. These practices cultivate intuition, empathy, compassion, insight that matches outsight, and a willingness to explore and follow our deepest calling.

At the second coherence domain – conviviality with others; community or interpersonal thrivability – the practice involves deep dialogue and collaboration. Coming together to learn with and from each other and to engage in coordinated action with considerateness, openness, and joy in order to enable collective wisdom.

At the third coherence domain – conviviality with nature; ecosystemic or transpersonal thriv-ability – the practices involve communing; listening to the messages of all beings (whether they be waterfalls, animals, mountains or galaxies) and acknowledging our interdependence and ultimate unity.

At the fourth coherence domain – conviviality with the flows of being and becoming; evolu-tionary or integral thrivability – the practices involve learning to read the patterns of change of which we are a part; learning to hear the rhythms of life and becoming familiar with the improvisational jam session that nature has been playing since time immemorial. These practices cultivate our ability to play our own piece; to sing and dance our own path into existence in harmony with the grand patterns of cosmic creation and to participate in the ongoing flourishing of life.

Some of the questions that guide the practices of systemic thrivability within each of these coherence domains are:

In the first domain (intra-personal conviviality): Who am I and what is my life’s purpose? What are my talents? To what do I feel called to contribute? What brings meaning to my life? What supports my personal development?

In the second domain (inter-personal conviviality): What common cares bring us together? What is our shared vision? How do we want to contribute to the flourishing of life forever? Who are our partners and collaborators? What do we need to learn? What do we want to create? What is our value proposition or unique contribution to all our stakeholders? What affirms our values, identity and culture? How do we treat each other — for example, with respect, active listening, empathy, and suspended judgement?

In the third domain (trans-species conviviality): What gifts do we receive from nature that we have not acknowledged? What relationships and connections need to be restored? How can we contribute to the regeneration of our ecosystems? What would a thriving relation-ship with nature look like?

In the fourth domain (trans-generational conviviality): What would our ancestors think of our work and life? What would our children’s children think of our choices? How do we honor our past and create our future intentionally? How do we become active and conscious participants in the unfolding of life?

Super-coherence occurs when all four coherence domains become coherently aligned in daily practice, resulting in an integral engagement with thrivability. As such, the relational intelligence inherent to systemic consciousness is keyed to these practices — always engaging us in a dynamic of conviviality.

When we seek to adapt ourselves with the way in which something else is evolving, we engage in a dy-namic of conviviality. According to Ivan Illich, the notion of conviviality denotes “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment; and this in contrast with the conditioned response of persons to the demands made upon them by others, and by a man-made environment.”14 Conviviality, in this sense, is much more than a condition of social nicety. It is an essential

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characteristic of thrivable systems.

Convivial responses to the complexity of contemporary global and local challenges – personal, societal, planetary – require an expanded perspective: a way of recognizing interconnections, of perceiving wholes and parts, of acknowledging processes and structures, of blending apparent opposites. But most importantly, they require collaboration and an appreciation of reciprocity. Individual solutions and breakthrough ideas are necessary but not sufficient. Real opportunity to affect change arises from the systemic synergies that we create together. Curating the conditions for a thrivable planet draws on contemporary insights from the sciences of complexity, the life sciences (including the biophilial orientations of biomimicry), and an embra-cive spirituality that re-instills a sense of the sacred in the universe.

ISSS 2013: Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet – Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization

As the ISSS bridges from the theme of Service Systems, Natural Systems to that of Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization in view of Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet, we are faced with an amazing opportunity. To apply all areas of the systems sciences to thrive and help thrive. There is perhaps no greater service calling at the systemic level of life on Earth, for it addresses the highest level of self-actualization on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.15 According to Donella Meadows, the most powerful leverage point – the place of greatest effectiveness for systemic intervention – is at the level of paradigms;16 those worldviews, mental frames, or as more richly put in German, Weltangschauungen that shape us in the image we have of our world, and shape the world we live in as we act upon the reality of this image. Through the cultivation of a systemic consciousness that draws on, develops and puts into practice our relational intelligence for the identification of systemic leverage points for emerging a global eco-civilization, the ISSS will affect not only the character of the Systems Movement itself, but potentially also create inroads in the efforts of our species to curate the conditions for a thrivable planet. Through the vehicle of the 57th Meeting and Conference of the ISSS, we will contribute to an evolutionary narrative of the next phase of human civilization in a time of global personal awakening. This is no trivial challenge, and none is of greater systemic relevance to the global problematique of our time. Given the nature of this leverage point, it is worth bearing in mind the admonition of Donella Meadows when she pointed out that “the higher the leverage point, the more the system will resist changing it.”17

It is the objective of this next conference to capitalize upon current and emerging initiatives that create at-tractors for ongoing activities connecting systems science with systems action in the area of systemic sus-tainability. The conference will provide a unique opportunity for scholars and practitioners to come together and share a variety of viewpoints on a broad range of issues relating to emergent patterns, processes and relationships of life and living systems. The design of the conference is being shaped so as to provide a playspace where systems scientists can jointly curate the emergence of more sustainable and even thriv-able systems. By exploring cutting edge inquiry across a variety of types of non-linear complex adaptive systems, the conference will focus on processes of self-organization and emergence that relate to the ontology of life. These issues will be engaged with in the areas of living systems, natural systems, social systems and technological systems, inviting conference participants to emerge patterns of organization that may contribute to new ways of being and doing in the context of an evolving eco-civilization.

Each day of the conference will consider the theme from one of the four ways of knowing described by Heron and Reason in 199718, moving from experiential knowing to presentational knowing to propositional knowing to practical knowing. Through both local and virtual conversation-based systemic inquiry, the conference will be designed so as to be a key example of systemic socio-ecological innovation aided by col-lective intelligence. In other words, the conference itself will be a systems experiment conceived as a type of ‘enhancement laboratory’ to leverage the collective intelligence of the ISSS. This will be accomplished through the application of a modified and enhanced version of Participatory Action Research19 known as GAR – Generative Action Research. GAR methodology is a cyclic, emergent and participative approach to the co-creation of meaning among groups of evolutionary change agents. As described by George Pór, these three characteristics can be represented as follows:

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Figure 1: Three process dimensions of Generative Action Research (GAR)

[following the work of George Pór]

Cyclic — Action and understanding are advanced through cycles of deliberate intervention and reflection.

Emergent — GAR design is not fully specified in advance of the inquiry, thereby allowing its cycles to respond to relevant knowledge emerging from the previous cycle. By way of such a fuzzy guiding process, GAR remains flexible, yet robust, capable to adjust to changes in the emergent process of knowledge creation.

Participative — Those whose action are likely to affect or be affected by the intended sys-temic change are involved in designing the actions to be taken in the subsequent cycle.

The three cycles of GAR represent sequences of an expanding spiral of knowledge value creation. The conceptual prototype is developed in the first cycle along with the identification of sources of funding for its realization. A baseline prototype system is created in the second cycle as an experimental version of CIEL. This also permits interacting with and enhancing the conference organizing processes, as well as expand-ing the range and reach of the relevant design conversations to include interested stakeholders. The third cycle is represented by the 57th ISSS Conference itself, as well as the phase of preparation for the launch of the CI Initiative immediately preceding the conference. In this third cycle, the GAR enhanced CIEL project will take on a life of its own as a demonstration project for collective intelligence in action, organizing itself across multiple platforms, geographies, cultures and generations.20

As a systemic design experiment in and of itself, the objective of the 57th ISSS Conference is to acceler-ate, richly connect, and increase the diversity of the processes by which all those who participate in the conference – either in person at the time of the conference, or virtually before, during and after the confer-ence – are able to share, create, and innovate theories, methods, and practices that foster new paradigms in planetary thrivability and systemic conviviality.

The intention is for ISSS 2013 to provide both a platform for other contextual designs framed within the meta-level objective of curating the conditions for a thrivable planet, as well as to catalyze the emergence of a network of such initiatives through the specific system level focus on the systemic leverage points for emerging a global eco-civilization. The selected conference theme will serve to attract living cases of sys-temic sustainability – those which demonstrate socio-ecological innovations that span social, technological, economic, agricultural, and infrastructural domains. By focusing ISSS 2013 on the exploration of both real-world cases of systemic sustainability and theoretical models dedicated to their promotion, this event will serve to seed the emergence of a Global Living Laboratory network of such initiatives. The result of this event would therefore be the emergence of an auto-catalytic socio-technical system focused on individual projects of systemic sustainability that collectively contribute to the creation of conditions for a thrivable planet.

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Figure 2: Virtuous cycle for bootstrapping an eco-civilization

We have chosen the venue of Viet Nam as the ideal context and platform for this engagement. The living case studies and design models of systemic sustainability will spotlight the development efforts of the local government in both rural and urban sustainability on the northern coast of Viet Nam, and the Global Living Laboratory Network as a new actionable paradigm for curating the conditions for a thrivable planet. These examples will serve as key attractors for other local and global initiatives. By providing a platform for the presentation of cutting edge systemic sustainability efforts — indeed, for ones which even move entirely beyond sustainability into areas of thrivability — the patterns of emergence that point the way to a global eco-civilization may begin to be discerned, modeled and brought into systemic engagement. The intention is to cultivate a new narrative of convivial thrivability for our times through a demonstration case that ex-emplifies the human potential for curating the conditions for a thrivable plant. Specifically, the 57th Annual Meeting and Conference of the ISSS would itself be a case study in the identification and development of systemic leverage points for emerging a global eco-civilization. When seen in this light – as a demonstration case for a larger meta-project relating to planetary thrivability – the creative efforts of the ISSS Member-ship as well as of those engaged in similar efforts in other venues before, during and after the meeting in Viet Nam will mark a new trend. A trend that matches systems thinking and systems practice with systems consciousness and systems being in the world, and in so doing, launches new paradigm conversations in the Systems Movement.

This is the next great challenge for the ISSS. I hope you will accept the invitation to be the change and to see the world shift at the leverage point that we are.

(Endnotes)1 Cf. Hammond, Deborah (2003). The Science of Synthesis. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado.

Pp. 248-252; Hofkirchner, Wolfgang and Schafranek, Matthias (2011). “General Systems Theory” in Philosophy of Complex Systems, Cliff Hooker (ed.). Oxford: North Holland, pp. 177-194.

2 The exception, of course, were the Malthusians who held that without the exercise of “moral restraint”, population will tend to increase at a rate greater than its means of subsistence, though their concerns lay principally with war, famine, and epidemics.

3 Ackoff, Russell (1981). Creating the Corporate Future. New York: Wiley & Sons. 4 ibid. p. 22.5 BBC News article on “Rio summit: Little progress, 20 years on” by Richard Black at http://www.bbc.co.uk/

news/science-environment-18546583 - accessed 5/07/12.

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6 BBC News article on “Can the Dutch do reality TV in space?” by Anna Holligan at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18506033 - accessed 5/07/12.

7 Roselle, as quoted in Al Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the human spirit. New York: Plume, 1993. P. 217.

8 For more on these four ways of knowing, see Heron, John and Reason, Peter. A participatory inquiry paradigm. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(3), 1997. P. 274-294.

9 Goleman, Daniel. Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.10 Goleman, Daniel. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Social Relationships. New York: Bantam

Books, 2006; Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. New York: Broadway Business, 2009.

11 Zohar, Dana. SQ: Spiritual Intelligence, the Ultimate Intelligence. London: Bloomsbury, 2000.12 Gardner, Howard. Multiple Intelligences: The Theory in Practice. New York: Basic Books, 1993.13 Dawson, Ross. “Autopoiesis and how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life,” on

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14 Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. Marion Boyars, pubs. 2001, p. 69.15 Maslow, Abraham. Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper, 1954.16 Meadows, Donella. “Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System.” Hartland, VT: The Sustainability

Institute, 1999.17 ibid., p. 19.18 Heron, John and Reason, Peter. A participatory inquiry paradigm. Qualitative Inquiry, 3(3), 1997, p.

274-294. 19 Reason, P. & Bradbury, H. (eds.). Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice,

Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001, p. 512.20 Cf. Pór, George. Nurturing Systemic Wisdom through Knowledge Ecology. The Systems Thinker, Oc-

tober 2000.

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SECTION TWO:MEETINGS AND CONFERENCES

The 57th World Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: Systemic Leverage Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization

Hai Phong City, Viet Nam — 14-19 July 2013

Http://isss.org/world

We warmly invite you to join us in a unique experience that will contribute significantly to making systems thinking more mainstream around the world. The 57th Annual ISSS World Conference will provide you with an opportunity to showcase advances in systemic sustainability initiatives from around the world with hands-on experience in the UNESCO Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve and at Hai Phong City, the first city in the world to be managed using an integral systems approach.

Call for Participation

Be part of the co-creation of an international network of systems thinking in practice. Biosphere Reserves (more than 580 in 114 countries) are sites recognized under the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program to demonstrate innovative state-of-the-art approaches to conservation and sustainable develop-ment. The fact that UNESCO has recommended the launch of a pilot project in the Cat Ba Biosphere Re-serve to use these areas as learning laboratories is of great interest to systems scientists. Furthermore, you will experience how the concept of a series of Living Laboratories (LLabs) for all major issues that various government departments of Hai Phong City are dealing with leads to a highly innovative cross-sectoral and organic Master Plan for thrivable governance.

Connect your own research, projects and experiences with these vibrant initiatives of high significance to the world. We invite individual researchers, systemic learning labs, national and regional development initiatives, and other systemic programs with sustainability projects from around the world to participate in this international event.

The opportunity to compare and learn from many initiatives in systemic sustainability will create a unique potential at ISSS 2013. Participate, present, and experience cutting edge systems models and real-world applications of thrivability initiatives from around the globe. Get connected and be part of the first step in a series of related international events and gatherings of various communities that address issues of livability and thrivability in terms of systemic socio-ecological innovation.

Visit the remarkable site of Hai Phong City and Cat Ba Biosphere Reserve to share your thought leadership and gain further scientific and practical advantages to better address your local systemic leverage points for emerging a global eco-civilization. Get involved and share your enthusiasm with attendees from all over the world. Let us extend the concepts and practices of systems thinking and the management of complex societal and ecosystemic issues together, curating the conditions for a thrivable planet.

Be part of this important event

This Conference offers the experience of a lifetime to have systems scientists and systems practitioners in one exciting place to form a Global Living Laboratory of systemic thrivability initiatives. Be a part of this world shifting initiative!

For further up-to-date information please browse these webpages or email the ISSS Office at isssoffice@dsl.pipex.com

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Modes of Explanation Conference

May 22-24, 2013

Paris France

Three days to discuss and learn about our use of modes of explanation. A look at how our mode of explana-tion affects our affordances for action.

American University of Paris May 22-24, 2013 See http://modesofexplanation.org

Speakers include: Nancy Nersessian, Paul Thagard, David Snowden, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Kevin Kelly, Hugo Letiche, and Timothy Allen

<http://isce.edu> and please see http://resilientcoherence.com/

KIM2013 Knowledge and Information Management Conference

4 - 5 June 2013

Forest of Arden Hotel & Country Club, Meriden, CV7 7HR, UK.

Theme - Sustainable Quality

KIM2013 is the OR Society's inaugural Knowledge and Information Management conference.

The theme of Sustainable Quality is relevant to organisations and individuals working in any sector of the economy. Knowledge management has become a key process in understanding organisations and their use of resources and, ultimately, quality is a major differentiating factor when considering goods and services. Sustaining quality requires taking a strategic view that may present short to medium term challenges and knowledge management should be able to help address such challenges. For large organisations, knowl-edge management may be seen as an intra-organisation activity, but sustaining quality for small to medium enterprises may require inter-organisational cooperation. The different quality and knowledge management issues faced by different sectors and differently sized organisations, and how these are addressed in practice and in theory, will help to make this a very interesting conference.

We are extremely fortunate in having three highly knowledgeable and exciting plenary speakers, who will present very different and challenging thoughts:

Dr. Jay Liebowitz, Orkand Endowed Chair in Management and Technology, The Graduate School, University of Maryland University College.

Professor John Edwards, Executive Dean, Aston Business School and Editor of Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP).

Trevor Howes, Director, BRM Fusion Ltd.

6th Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation Workshop (CoSMoS 2013)

1 - 5 July 2013

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy

1 day workshop

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/cosmos/cosmos2013.html

cosmos2013-group@york.ac.uk

*SPECIAL ISSUE OF NATURAL COMPUTING JOURNAL: we will be organising a special issue of the Natural Computing journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/journal/11047) based on the themes raised in the workshop. Suitable workshop submissions will be invited to submit to this special journal issue.*

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The 6th workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (CoSMoS 2013) will take place as a 1-day satellite workshop of the Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation conference (http://ucnc2013.disco.unimib.it/) held between 1st and 5th July at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. The CoSMoS workshops series provides a forum for research examining all aspects of the model-ling and simulation of complex systems. This year, we will place a special focus on how complex systems simulations can be used to simulate unconventional and natural computation.

Constructing models and simulations of complex systems is a challenging and interdisciplinary task. Ele-ments might include choice of modelling tools and techniques, simulation infrastructures, concurrency, the process of moving from models to simulations, arguing validity of simulations, and the identification of reus-able engineering techniques such as patterns. The CoSMoS workshop series continues an initiative, based at the Universities of York and Kent, UK, to develop a framework and infrastructure for the construction of complex systems simulations.

Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer-review process and accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by Luniver Press. Proceedings of the previous CoSMoS workshop are available: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/psa/cosmos2013/proceedings.html

AREAS OF INTEREST

We are seeking submissions that explore aspects of complex systems modelling and simulation, with a special focus on how complex systems simulations can be used to simulate unconventional and natural computation. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Complex systems simulation case-studies

* Modelling tools and techniques

* Simulation infrastructures

* Arguing validity of simulations

* Concurrency and distribution techniques

* Identification of reusable engineering techniques

* Working across scientific disciplines

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

* Paul Andrews, Department of Computer Science and York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, Univer-sity of York, UK

* Susan Stepney, Department of Computer Science and York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, Uni-versity of York, UK

Summer School on Complex Systems

June 10 - 14, 2013 CX201: Complex Physical, Biological, and Social Systems

June 16, 2013 CX102: Computer Programming and Complex Systems

June 17 - 21, 2013 CX202: Complex Systems Modeling and Networks

TARGET AUDIENCE

The NECSI Summer School is intended for faculty, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, professionals and others who would like to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of complex systems for application to research in their respective fields, or as a basis for pursuing complex systems research.

Early registration deadline: April 16, 2013

http://necsi.edu/education/school.html

The summer school offers two intensive week-long courses. The courses consist of lectures, discussions, and supervised group projects. Though the second week builds on material covered in the previous week,

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CX201 is not a prerequisite for CX202. You may register for either or both weeks. If desired, arrangements for credit at a home institution may be made in advance.

For more information and registration, visit: http://necsi.edu/education/school.html

Confidence in Simulations for Science Workshop

7-10th July 2013

Co-located with SCSC 2013 as part of SummerSim'13 in Toronto, Canada

Workshop URL: http://www.ycil.org.uk/csfs-13/

Conference URL: http://www.msc-les.org/conf/scsc2013/

This workshop concerns the issue of establishing whether scientific simulation outputs are truly representative of the systems that they simulate. This is an important consideration in a diverse range of fields including the simulation of biological, sociological, ecological and economic systems (and potentially many more).

The call for abstracts may be found at http://www.ycil.org.uk/csfs-13/.

Abstract submissions are via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csfs13

We invite participants wishing to present their perspective on any of the above topics to submit an abstract. Abstracts will be selected by the organizers for relevance, and be available on the day in a printed booklet. Accepted presentations will be used to structure the workshop and guide discussions. We hope to col-late the outputs from the workshop for a joint journal submission discussing best practice across complex system disciplines.

The deadline for abstract submissions is the 1st July 2013.

The workshop is organised by :

* Dr. Mark Read, Department of Electronics, University of York

* Prof. Jon Timmis, Departments of Electronics and Computer Science, University of York

* Dr. Paul Andrews, Department of Computer Science, University of York

* Dr. Kieran Alden, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham

For all inquiries, please contact Dr Mark Read on csfs13@easychair.org

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Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS)

9th. HSSS National & International Conference

in collaboration with the

University of Thessaly, Department of Economic Sciences

11 - 13, July, 2013, Volos, Greece.

www.2013.hsss.eu <http://www.2013.hsss.eu>

Systemics for Process Cohesion

Keynote Speakers

Professor Gerald Midgley, UK•

Professor Pericles Loucopoulos, UK & Greece•

Professor José Pérez Ríos, Spain•

Professor Bob Cavana, New Zealand•

Lt. Colonel Georgios N. Kastanis, Greece•

Dr. Yiannis Laouris, Cyprus•

Dr. José Ângelo Pinto, Portugal•

You may contribute in: Workshops, Professional Panel and Professional Round Table

Also, you may present your paper through our Video Conferencing Platform without traveling.

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS POST-IMPLEMENTA-TION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT 2013

Prague, Czech Republic, 22 - 24 July 2013

(http://www.ispcm-conf.org/)

part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems

(MCCSIS 2013)

Prague, Czech Republic, 22 - 26 July 2013

(http://www.mccsis.org)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor Susan Williams, University of Koblenz, Germany

* Conference background and goals

Computer based information systems (IS) have changed the lives of people, organizations, countries and regions in a way never before seen in human history. The revolution IS created was based on unprecedented availability of and access to information. Information became the core competitive advantage in organiza-tions and investment in IS has increased exponentially. According to the International Data Corporation 2007 report (IDC, 2008), the global software industry overtook the hardware industry for the first time in 2006, by incorporating 52 per cent of the entire information technology (IT) industry. According to the same source, in 2007 the global software market was valued at 229,946 billion US dollars and consequently the IS industry has become one of the most important business sectors in the world market today.

Nevertheless and despite the apparent success story, the IS industry has been plagued by shadows of failure and inefficiency since its early days. Most of the research done since the 80s has therefore focused on the design and development of Software, aiming at meeting well defined and precise requirements, hopefully

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resulting from participative processes of negotiation with IS users and stakeholders. Nonetheless, failure still persists. Deterministic views based on concepts of engineering rather than socio-technical approaches, neglected to consider that organizations are human activity systems, constantly evolving and difficult to pre-dict. The IADIS Information Systems Post-implementation and Change Management Conference (ISPCM 2013) aims to provide a forum for the discussion of IS in such a socio-technological perspective. It aims to address the issues related to use, exploitation, maintenance of IS in organizations, focusing on the post-implementation phase of the IS life-cycle. It aims at discussing the impacts and effects of the introduction of new technological artifacts in human activity systems and exploring the much need management of these processes. The conference aims to discuss these issues in the context of IS professional practice, research and teaching.

* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).

The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexing to INSPEC, EI Compendex, Thomson ISI, ISTP and other indexing services.

* Best Papers

Some of the best papers will be eligible to be extended and enhanced as book chapters for inclusion in a book to be published by IGI Global.

Selected authors of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to selected journals (i.e. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems (IJCSIS - ISSN: 1646-3692 and in the IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet (ISSN: 1645-7641)) including journals from INDERSCIENCE Publishers.

General contact email address: mcs@iss.ac.cn

Emails of the acting chairs: Xijin Tang xjtang@amss.ac.cn

Yoshiteru Nakamori nakamori@jaist.ac.jp Xiaoji Zhou zh_xj@sina.com

OR55 Annual Conference

3 - 5 September 2013

The University of Exeter Forum, Streatham Campus, Exeter EX4 4QJ

For further information, email: email@theorsociety.com

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First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation

Canberra, Australia

September 8-11, 2013

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First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation<http://www.i2sconference.org/>

The First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation<http://www.i2sconference.org/> will bring together researchers and educators who use and teach systems-based, action-oriented, multidis-ciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary approaches. We invite you to share information about your methods and case studies, and to help plan the future of research integration and implementation. The conference will occur online and in Canberra Australia from September 8-11, 2013. The full range of confer-ence aims and the innovative ways we are seeking to achieve them can be found at www.i2sconference.org<http://www.i2sconference.org>.

If you have any questions, please contact Gabriele Bammer or Alison Wain at I2Sconference@anu.edu.au<mailto:I2Sconference@anu.edu.au>.

2013 - UKSS 17th International Conference

Systems & Society: Ideas from Practice

Mon 9th to Wed 11th September, 2013

St Anne’s College, Oxford University, UK.

The Conference Committee invites contributions from systems thinkers, whether academic or practitioners. Contributions can be in the form of full papers, posters or proposals to organise a pre-event workshop.

Key note speakers: Will Hutton & Raul Espejo

Full papers are invited addressing the conference theme and reports of on-going developments in systems research and practice. All submissions will be peer-reviewed (for academic works) or editorially reviewed (for accounts of systems practice). A small number of high-quality papers will be selected for an edition of the Systemist, to be published following the conference. Eligibility for publication in this special issue will depend upon at least one of the authors registering for and attending the conference.

Contributors who do not wish to submit full papers can consider submitting posters. Posters will be displayed at special sessions during the conference.

For more information about the conference or about registration, please contact Conference Secretariat at conference2013@ukss.org.uk.

IDIMT 2013

September 11th - 13th, 2013 (Wed-Fri)

University of Economics, Prague (Czech Republic) and

J. Kepler University of Linz (Austria)

21st Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks

Prague, Czech Republic

In 20 years of its history IDIMT conference have established itself as a truly interdisciplinary and international forum for the exchange of concepts and visions in the area of complex and/or software intensive systems, management and engineering of information and knowledge, systemic thinking, business engineering, and related topics. The increasing pervasiveness of systems and the related importance of information as a vital resource requires the consideration of synergies in an interdisciplinary and holistic cooperation of various

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disciplines such as systems engineering, electronics, management, information systems, sociology, busi-ness, and education.

IDIMT involves a multi-national, multidisciplinary audience in discussing up-to-date and evolving topics and issues.

The conference follows the well-established pattern of a single stream of sessions, each introduced by a keynote and followed by shorter position papers, their full text being included in the proceedings. At least 20 minutes are set aside at each session for a plenary discussion.

Draft versions of keynote papers will be available on the conference web site (www.idimt.org) by the end of March 2013 to enable participants to formulate their position papers. Submitted draft papers are reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Final acceptance is subject to fulfilling the reviewer’s suggestions and demands

The proceedings of the Conference will be published in the Series “Informatik” of the "Universitätsverlag Rudolf Trauner, Linz, Austria" with an ISBN-number. They will be available at the start of the conference.

Contact person for contributions: Václav Oškrdal (vaclav.oskrdal@vse.cz) Contact person for PhD contri-butions: Ludmila Malinová (ludmila.malinova@vse.cz) Contact person for web and PR: Antonín Pavlíček (antonin.pavlicek@vse.cz). Webpage is: (www.idimt.org)

Business Systems Laboratory

II B.S.Lab. International Symposium

Rome at the Universitas Mercatorum

January 23 and 24, 2014

<http://www.bslaboratory.net/> (www.bslaboratory.net <http://www.bslaboratory.net> ) :

“SYSTEMS THINKING FOR A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY. Advancements in Economic and Managerial Theory and Practice”.

The webpage of the event is available at: http://bslab-symposium.net/ <http://bslab-symposium.net/>

Partners of the event are: The World Organisation for Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC), the Research Institute for ManaginfgSustainability (Vienna University of Economics and Business), the Systems Design and Complexity Management Alliance (SDCM) and the European Evaluation Society (TWG – Evaluating Sustainable Development).

Topics: Systems Thinking, Sustaniblity, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Finance, Sustainable Marketing, Technology for Sustainability, Sustainable Tourism, Sustainability Management, Managerial Cybernetics, Ethics For A Sustainable Society, Economic Growth And Sustainability, Innovation, Business Models for Sustainability, Education For Sustainable Development, Evaluating Sustainable Development,

Among the publishing opportunities for the best selected papers presented at the event there will be 3 special issues of the following scientific journals:

• BUSINESS SYSTEMS REVIEW <http://www.business-systems-review.org/> (ISSN 2280-3866);

• SINERGIE <http://www.eng.sinergiejournal.it/> (ISSN 0393-5108);

• JOURNAL OF ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION & SOCIAL CHANGE <http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/journals/org/> (ISSN 1477-9633)

We look forward to your contribution to the event and we wish to meet you in Rome next winter.

For further information please do not hesitate to contact the Scientific Director: Dr. Gandolfo Dominici (gan-dolfo.dominici@bslaboratory.net <http://gandolfo.dominici@bslaboratory.net/>

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SECTION THREE:ISSS BUSINESS

NOTICE OF UPCOMING ISSS MEETINGS

The annual membership, council and board meetings willbe held during the annual conference at Hai Phong City, Vietnam, July 14-19, 2013.

Call for Nominations

Nominations are requested from all members for offices below, as per processes stated in the ISSS Bylaws below, for the positions of:

1. President-Elect (3 year position on the board beginning for one year as President-Elect, one year as President, and one year as past President) (July 2013-2016).

2. VP for Communications and Systems Education (2 year position July 2013-2015).

3. Nominations are also requested for the one-year position of VP for Membership and Conferences, to be forwarded to the Council during the Annual Meeting in July 2013, where election to this position is voted on by the Council.

Current holders of these positions may also be nominated for re-election.

Please email or mail nominations to the ISSS Office (email: issoffice@dsl.pipex.com) by May 15, 2013.

Minutes of 2012 ISSS Board of Directors Meeting

San Jose, July 16, 2012

Present:David Ing President 2011/2012 Jennifer Wilby VP Administration & Past President 2010/2011 & VP FundsAlexander Laszlo Incoming President 2012/2013Janet Singer VP Research & PublicationDebora Hammond Trustees’ RepresentativeOckie Bosch VP Communication & Systems EducationMary Edson VP Membership & ConferencesPamela Henning VP Protocol/SecretaryMichael Singer GuestGerald Midgley Guest Diana Yee Guest Nam Nguyen Guest

David Ing called the meeting to order at 7:10pm.

Announcements and General Information:

1. Ratification of Elections:

Jennifer Wilby reported that the following people are slated to be joining the Society’s Board of Directors: Gerald Midgley (President Elect), Michael Singer (VP Funds), Pamela Buckle Henning (VP Protocol/Secre-tary), Janet Singer (VP Research and Publications).

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2. Proposed Society Budget 2012/2013

Jennifer Wilby proposed a variable budget (contingent on anticipated membership numbers in the year ahead) for the coming year. She outlined the membership fee categories, and each category’s contribution to electronic infrastructure and office expenses, and the General Systems Bulletin. Each year, SIG contri-butions up to $1500 are added to the General Systems Bulletin account. SIG contributions over $1500 are added to the Board Discretionary account to be used for miscellaneous SIG expenses.

3. 2012 Conference Update

David Ing reported on the 2012 conference. He had selected the San Jose location for its proximity to IBM – close to IBM/access funding from then. He indicated disappointment that the turnout has been lower this year in comparison to the attendance at other ISSS conferences located in California. Had hoped for larger turnout from INCOSE membership – Janet Singer and David Ing reported on the relationship-building efforts between INCOSE and ISSS. He spoke of the opportunity in future years to build more extensive relationships/involvement with INCOSE groups local to the conference location. This year’s numbers include approximately 130 regular, 5 accompanying/spouses, 8 complimentary speakers, 33 students. Students are benefiting by the Systems Basics track. Only 8 student papers are under consideration for the Vickers Award (down from 16 the year prior). David Ing reported on keeping costs down for plenary speakers, on exploiting ISSS members for the Systems Basics and discussant roles as a way to utilize expertise of knowledgeable members. Members discussed concerns about delays in approving abstracts, and about reviewing with suggestions (regarding the quality of the abstract, and regarding the abstract’s appropri-ateness for particular SIGS). Mary Edson noted the tremendous work of David Ing and Jennifer Wilby in developing this year’s conference.

4. 2013 Conference Plans

Alexander Laszlo reported an excellent opportunity at IFSR in Linz taken to explore the design of next year’s conference. Mary Edson, Jennifer Wilby, Ockie Bosch, Nam Nguyen, Alexander Laszlo, Stephan Blachfellner, George Poor participated in this work. The conference has been designed re: theme, design of the days, etc. Week spent in organizing work for the conference. Alexander plans to meet with key players during the 2012 conference and work to make a compelling case to attract conference participants. Collaborative arrangements with ASC have been discussed. ASC in China 10 days after ISSS Vietnam; coordinating, seek to suggest that people arrive in Hong Kong to facilitate travel to both Hong Kong and Vietnam to those interested in attending both conferences. Ockie Bosch reported on the excitement of the Vietnamese people to be hosting this conference. Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet – specific theme: Looking for Systemic Leverage Point for Emerging a Sustainable

5. Proposed Nominations VP Membership/Conferences 2012/2013

Alexander Laszlo discussed possibilities regarding having two individuals taking the role of VP Member-ship/Conferences. Members discussed redefining this position into two separate Board roles: one involving Membership Development and developing relationships among other systems societies – legacy work. The VP Conference position would change each year. This proposed bylaw change will be brought to the 2012 Council meeting.

6. Status of Disbanded and Ratified SIGs

Jennifer Wilby reported there are no new SIGS. She recommends none of the existing SIGs be dis-banded.

7. Web Administration Report

Jennifer Wilby reported plans for restructuring the ISSS web page. David Ing reported that a significant tech-nical upgrade is required. Pamela Henning thanked the Board for updates on the ISSS Wikipedia entry.

8. Publications

Janet Singer discussed the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge project underway with INCOSE. She sees the project as important to the relationship between that organization and ISSS. David Ing discussed plans to get 2010-2012 plenary speaker recordings onto the web.

Jennifer Wilby reported that all ISSS conference papers will be searchable through academic databases.

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9. Other Business

David Ing discussed the increased activity of the Systems Sciences Group on Facebook.

Jennifer Wilby noted the passing of former Vickers’ Award winner Honorato Tessier Fuentes, and ISSS member and 2010 plenary speaker Stephen Haines.

Motions:

1. Pamela Henning moved acceptance of the minutes of the minutes of the 2011 Board e-meeting. Debora seconded. Motion unanimously passed.

2. Alexander moved that the proposed 2008/2009 budget be passed. David Ing seconded. Motion unanimously passed.

3. Alexander Laszlo moving that the bylaws be reviewed and revised to facilitate reorganization of Board roles. Mary Edson seconded. Motion passed.

4. Debora Hammond proposed the Board support and facilitate the INCOSE SEBoK project. Jen-nifer Wilby seconded. Pamela opposed. Motion passed.

Meeting adjourned at 9:10 pm.

Minutes of 2012 ISSS Council Meeting

San Jose, CA. USA, July 20, 2011

PresentLen Troncale Trustee, Chair Systems Biology/Evolution, Systems PathologyShankar Sankaran Human Systems InquiryGerhard Chroust IFSR RepresentativeVincent Vesterby General Systems SIGVistor MacGill ObserverSue Gabriele Round Table SIGMary Edson VP Membership & ConferencesJennifer Wilby VP AdministrationDavid Ing PresidentAlexander Laszlo President ElectJanet Singer VP Research & PublicationsMichael Singer ObserverJohn Kineman SIG Chair Relational SciencesThomas Wong Health and Systems Thinking SIGGerald Midgley ObserverJames Simms Living Systems Analysis SIGKent Palmer INCOSE RepresentativePamela Henning VP Protocol/SecretaryNam Nguyen ObserverCarl Slawski Southern California Chapter LeaderLouis Klein SABI SigAllenna Leonard Observer

David Ing called the meeting to order at 7:40pm.

Announcements and General Discussions:

1. Budget for 2012/2013

Jennifer Wilby presented a proposed ISSS variable budget with a proportion of each membership fee allot-ted to various society functions. Approximately $18,000 is in the Society’s Trustees account held in reserve (used as loans to conferences if needed). David Ing reported that IBM donated $5,000 toward this year’s conference.

Jennifer Wilby reported that the Society has 233 members at present, consistent with last year. 33 students

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have attended this year’s conference. Fewer retirees are attending this year’s conference (approximately 15). 143 individuals registered for this year’s conference, steady over the past several years. She reported also on the successful collaboration with the American Cybernetics Society (offering discounts to individuals wishing to attend both conferences, and having a single online registration form for both conferences).

Members discussed publicizing the conferences and Society activities via press releases.

Members discussed benefits and challenges of combining conferences with other academic Societies.

2. Election of VP Conferences.

David Ing opened the floor for nominations for the role of VP Membership and Conferences for 2012/2013. Nam Nguyen was nominated for this role.

Alexander Laszlo reported that a motion was put forth at the Board to review the bylaws to accommodate the possibility of dividing the role of VP Conferences and Membership into two roles. Jennifer Wilby read the relevant bylaw process for such revisions. The VP Protocol/Secretary will form a Bylaws Review Com-mittee to review the bylaws in this regard. That committee will include the VP Administration and 3 Council Members change will go to the membership within 60 days for vote. Authorized by the Council. Len Toncale encouraged the new role be framed as VP Membership and Outreach

3. Other Business

Sue Gabriele reported that Arne Collen has passed and should be removed from the ISSS Website as Chair of the Human Systems Inquiry SIG

Shankar Sharanen reported on the Human Systems Inquiry SIG. A suggested renaming of Human Sys-tems Thinking is under consideration by members of that SIG. Jennifer Wilby outlined the process for name change.

Janet Singer reported that a Systems Engineering exploratory group was assembling and inquired about the process for becoming a SIG.

Len Troncale wanted to announce the ISSS Archives via e-mail to all ISSS members. He also requested that a heading on the website be created for the Archive. David Ing discussed technical processes involved in updating the website.

David Ing reported that some individuals missed attending this year’s conference because their abstracts were not reviewed in time for them to secure funding. He recommended a change in process to accelerate the process, such as sending the abstract to multiple reviewers. Pamela Henning volunteered to participate in monitoring and expediting the review turnaround process. It was suggested that abstracts rejected by SIG Chairs be sent to other Chairs who might wish to select it for acceptance for their SIGs instead.

John Kineman asked about the criteria by which abstracts should be reviewed. Vincent Vesterby and others spoke of the challenges of reviewing abstracts rather than full papers. Alexander Laszlo suggested that timely reviewing be a requirement of SIG Chair positions. He further suggested that the following criteria be included: the submission must be intellectually rigorous, academically robust, and systemically relevant. As VP Publications, Janet Singer will develop a criteria statement for conference abstract acceptance.

Alexander Laszlo indicated that Stefan Blachfellner has indicated his interest in participating in the member-ship/outreach role that may result from the Bylaws Review process.

Motions:

1. Len Troncale moved to approve the budget as presented. James Simms seconded. Motion unanimously passed.

2. Mary Edson nominated Nam Nguyen for the role of VP Conferences/Membership 2012-2013. Janet Singer seconded. Motion unanimously approved.

Meeting adjourned at 9:10.

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Minutes of 2012 ISSS Membership Meeting

San Jose, CA, USA, July 20, 2012

Alexander Laszlo called the meeting to order at 11:45.

Discussion

1. Jennifer Wilby reported on the Council meeting held earlier this week. The variable budget for 2012-2013 was approved by the Council.

2. Jennifer Wilby reported on the income and expenses from the conference held at the University of Hull in 2011 – a slight loss. She anticipates that the 2012 conference will not go in the red.

3. Jennifer Wilby reported on the Society’s expenditures beginning January 1, 2011. She described the society’s financial status as healthy and consistent with its status as a nonprofit organization.

4. Jennifer Wilby reported on the Society’s current membership: students 43; regular members 84; develop-ing country 29; retired 26; past presidents 20.

5. Jennifer Wilby reported that Nam Nguyen was elected by the ISSS Council as VP Membership and Conferences.

6. Jennifer Wilby reported that a Bylaw Review is to be held to examine the VP Membership and Confer-ences role and its possible division into two separate roles. Alexander Laszlo described differences in the two functions for that role as it is conceived at present. Pamela Henning described the upcoming review and indicated that all members would be soon receiving by post an explanation of the proposed Bylaw changes to be voted upon. Alexander Laszlo indicated that he will be appointing Stefan Blachfellner to work in the role of interim membership/outreach ambassador.

7. Jennifer Wilby described the ongoing vote for open Board positions, reminding those members present to return their ballots as soon as possible.

Alexander Laszlo adjourned the meeting at 12:00.

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CASH ACCOUNTS ISSS Financial Year 2012 (January - December) (US Dollars)

Beginning January 1 2012 $ 50,689.60

Income Memberships 7,221.83 Conf. Memberships 11,545.00 Conference SIG contributions 450.00 CDs 25.00 Conference Profit 5,611.05 24,852.88 $ 75,542.48 Expenses Journals 9,500.32 Printing 304.97 Phone calls 379.86 Postage 227.17 Office costs 412.27 Office stipend 4,909.77 IFSR 200.00 Internet/Computing/Web Costs 1,935.47 Tennessee 25.00 Bank charges 252.31

18,147.14 Ending December 31 2012 $ 57,395.34

US Checking 24,954.18 Worldpay Holding 0.00 UK Sterling 4715.77 UK Dollar 27,725.39 Ending December 31 2012 $ 57,395.34

ISSS2012 San Jose, CA, USA Conference AccountsWithin financial year 2011 (Jan-Dec) (US Dollar)

REVENUE FROM CONFERENCE $88,641.00Misc Income $25.00Sponsorships 5,000.00 TOTAL REVENUE $93,666.00EXPENSES Membership for ASC 19,826.21Membership for ISSS 11,545.00SIG Donations 450.00Misc and CDs 25.00Vickers/Rapaport Award 1,000.00Insurance 150.49San Jose Facilities 8,498.16Speaker Travel and Accommodation 16,021.07Catering San Jose 19651.57Gifts 301.73Office Expenses 5073.32Regonline and Bank Charges 4,737.40Refunds 775.00

TOTALEXPENSES $88,054.95

PROFIT FROM CONFERENCE $5,611.05

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SIG ANNUAL REPORTS: List of Active SIGs and (Report Received)

Agent- based Social Systems (NO)Aging Systems (NO) Balancing Individualism and Collectivism (NO)Critical Systems Theory and Practice (NO)Designing Educational Systems (NO)Evolutionary Development (NO)Health and Systems Thinking (NO) Hierarchy Theory (NO)Human Systems Inquiry (NO)Information Systems Design and Information Technology (NO)ISSS Roundtable (NO)Living Systems Analysis (NO)Organizational Transformation and Social Change (NO)Research Towards a General Theory of Systems (NO)Socio-ecological Systems (NO)Spiritualty and Systems (NO)Student SIG (NO)Systemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises (NO)Systems Applications in Business Industry (NO)Systems Biology and Evolution (NO)Systems and Mental Healh (NO)Systems Pathology (NO) What is Life and Living (NO)

Relational Science has a New Website!

There is a new website for discussion of Relational Science. The site is at http://relationalscience.org/

For further details contact John Kineman at john.kineman@coloradoedu

ANNOUNCING THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL

ISSS ARCHIVE

DESCRIPTION and CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION OF MISSING ITEMS

Objectives: (i) collect, in one place, ALL past ISSS Bulletins, Annual Proceedings, Annual Programs, and Yearbooks including miscellaneous publications and recordings; (ii) increase availability and usability of ISSS products by scholars; (ii) promote official library cataloging so the pubic can use established search engines to find specific ISSS works; (iv) provide an overview assessment of productivity during the 56-year history of the Society across all of its names and manifestations; (v) encourage derivative publications of systems collections on specific general systems topics.

Location: Special Collections Division, California State Polytechnic University Library, 3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, California, 91768

Summary of Current Holdings: For the following citations: (i) all data are only to-date holdings so do not include the missing items listed below; (ii) the number of authors is an inflated number because there was no attempt to eliminate redundancies, that is, multiple authorships across the various publications or years; (iii) there was no attempt to determine the number of authors for the General Systems Bulletins as attribu-tions were often missing.

GENERAL SYSTEMS BULLETINS (Volumes I to XXXX inclusive)

• 64 Bulletin Issues (103 copies total; we have multiple copies for some GSB’s)

• 319 Bulletin Reports on State of the Society at various organizational levels

• 48 Bulletin Articles

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• 70 Bulletin Editorials

• 29 Bulletin Reviews of Articles and Books

• 270 Bulletin Abstracts of Articles and Books

• 293 Bulletin Publication Citations of Articles and Books

• 3,297 Bulletin Pages

GENERAL SYSTEMS YEARBOOKS (Volumes I to XXXII)

• 32 Yearbooks (130 copies; we have multiple copies for many Yearbooks)

• 561 Yearbook Articles

• 599 Authors

• 7,080 Yearbook Pages

GENERAL SYSTEMS PROCEEDINGS (A mix of Years with significant gaps)

• 48 Proceeding Volumes (59 copies; for some Proc Years we have multiples)

• 32 Proceeding Years

• 3,441 Proceedings Articles

• 4,969 Authors

• 34,900 Proceedings Pages

GENERAL SYSTEMS VIDEO/AUDIO RECORDINGS

• The Archives have an irregular series of audiotapes of sessions from selected annual conferences and videotapes of interviews of systems greats such as Nobel Laureates Herbert Simon, Wassily Leontief, and Ilya Prigogine as well as many of our early and current leaders.

TOTAL PRODUCTIVITY across nearly six decades of research of this society, and TOTAL OF CURRENT ARCHIVE HOLDINGS

• 144 Systems Publications

• 4,050 Systems Research Articles

• 5,568 Systems Authors (recall this includes redundancies)

• 45,277 Pages of Systems Discourse

Missing Items – Your Help Please: Analysis of the above collections indicates that we cannot achieve a complete and comprehensive coverage of ALL ISSS Publications unless copies of the following are found and donated to the Archive.

General Systems Proceedings [the greatest need is in this category]

• Were there any Proceedings published before 1969? We have nothing from 1956, the initiation of the SGSR, until 1969. Many of these years were associated with SGSR meetings with the AAAS.

• We do not have Proceedings for these years … 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1988, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, and 2010.

General Systems Bulletins [our second greatest need is in this category]

• There is mention of “newsletters” that were issued before the publication of the first GSB Vol I:No1 in 1969. Does anyone have copies of these early newsletters?

• It is not clear that all Volumes actually published No.’s 1, 2, and 3. But if so we are missing (years are approximate due to season issued): Volume III, No3 (‘71); Volume IV, No3 (’73); Volume V, No1 (’75); Volume IX, No3 (’79); Volume’s XII & XIII, No,’s 2 & 3 (’81 & ’82)

• There is no Volume XV at all (circa 1985) so Volume XVI to Volume XXII seem to have only pub-lished 1 issue or at most 2 issues per year. Any clarification from members would be appreciated.

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• There are no Volumes or No.’s for XXVII (1998), XXIX (2000), XXXI (2002), XXXVI (2008), XXXVIII (2009), XXXIX (2010)

General Systems Yearbook [we have only one copy of Volume One]

PLEASE CHECK YOUR LIBRARIES & COLLECTIONS FOR THESE ITEMS

***If you have any of these, or any other items that would be useful to include in this Archive, please send to ISSS Archives, Dr. Len Troncale, Dept. of Biology and Institute for Advanced Systems Studies, Cal Poly University, 3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, California 91711. The source of all donations will be noted and written on the donated item.

Rules of Access: Scholars are encouraged to personally visit the Archive. Specific items that are requested will be procured from protected storage for study in the Special Collections study area. Specific articles requested via standard InterLibrary Loan cooperative agreements will be copied and sent – library to li-brary – but you must submit through your library. Entire publications will not be copied or sent. Due to the weak binding methods used for past Bulletins and Proceedings, these items cannot be sent via standard Interlibrary Loan.

Capsule History: This collection began during the two-term Managing Directorship and three-year cycle of the Presidency of Troncale, ~1981 to 1990. Subsequently, the family of long-time ISGSR-ISSS member, Frederick B. Wood Sr., donated his entire collection to this core, in memoriam, after his passing on March 29, 2006. Later, long-time member Helmut Burkhardt donated his personal holdings as well as his curation of Anatol Rapoport’s holdings to the collection. We propose naming the collection the Burkhardt--Wood--Troncale Memorial Collection and, more simply, the ISSS International Archive, once all donors have passed away.

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SECTION FOUR:MEMBERS' BULLETIN BOARD

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AGORAS PUBLICATIONS

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Muriel AdcockP.O. Box 5298Larkspur, CA, 94977, United Statesmurielad@gmail.com

Dr. Timothy F. H. AllenUniversity of WisconsinDepartment of BotanyBirge Hall, 430 Lincoln DriveMadison, WI, 53706, USATFAllen@facstaff.wisc.edu

Mr. Saad F Alqarni36 South Bridge Road, Victoria DockHull, E Yorks, HU9 1TL, UKalqarni_saad@yahoo.co.uk

Prof. Steven AlterUniversity of San FranciscoSchool of Management, 2130 Fulton St.San Francisco, CA, 94117, United Statesalter@usfca.edu

Mr. John Anderson394 Sawmill RoadWhaletown, BC, V0P 1Z0, Canadainfoprog1@gmail.com

Dr. Theo AndrewDurban University of TechnologyFaculty of Enginrg and the Built EnvironmentP O Box 1334Durban, 4000, South Africatandrew@dut.ac.za

Mr Juan D ArangoExteractions.14350 SW 112th TerMiami, FL, 33186, United Statesjdarangor@yahoo.com

Prof Stuart ArnoldUniversity of HertfordshireSchool of Engineering and TechnologyCollege LaneHatfield, Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB, United Kingdoms.arnold2@herts.ac.uk

Mrs Elvira Avalos-VillarrealNSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONALWilfrido Massieu s/n Col. Lindavista Zona AcademicEdificio # 5, Piso 3Mexico City, 7738, Mexicoeavalosv@ipn.mx

Prof. Elvira Avalos-VillarrealBosque de Yuriria 28La HerraduraHuixquilucan, CP 53920, Mexicoeavalosb@ipn.mx

SECTION FIVE:MEMBERSHIP LISTING

Mr Tomas BackströmMälardalen UniversityP.O. Box 325Eskilstuna, SE-63105, Swedentomas.backstrom@mdh.se

Prof. Isaias Badillo-PIñaIPN-ESIMEBosque de Zapopan 34 Col La HerraduraHuixquilucan Edo. de Mex. C.P. 52784Mexico, 52784, Mexicoibadillop@ipn.mx

Prof. Kenneth D. Bailey1005 Hemphill DriveCleburne, TX, 76033-6642, USAkbbab@aol.com

Prof. Gabriele BammerNational Center, Epidemiology & Population HealthThe Australian National UniversityCanberra ACT, 0200, AustraliaGabriele.Bammer@anu.edu.au

Dr Bela A. Banathy38 Seca PlaceSalinas, CA, 93908, USAbabanathy@sbcglobal.net

Mr. Vincent BarabbaMarket Insight Corporation308 Cherry AvenueCapitola, CA, 95010, United Statesvbarabba@sbcglobal.net

Prof. Ricardo Mario BarreraUniversidad Nacional de la PatagoniaBouchard 931Puerto Madryn, Chubut, 9120, Argentinarbarrera@rbya.com.ar

Mr RICARDO ABAD BARROS-CASTROUniversidad de los AndesCalle 6 F # 2 - 15Barrio Belén CentroBogotá, Cundinamarca, +571, Colombiar-barros@uniandes.edu.co

Mr Tom BecherEmily Carr University of Art + Design1399 Johnston StreetVancouver, BC, V6H 3R9, Canadatjbecher@shaw.ca

Jim BestKaiser Permanente2311 Russell St.Berkeley, CA, 94705, United Statesbest.jim@gmail.com

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Mr. Richard Bisk35 Rock Meadow LaneStamford, CT, 06903, USArlbisk@optonline.net

Mr. Stefan BlachfellnerSteinerstrasse 9Salzburg, 5020, Austriastefan@blachfellner.com

Mr Jean-Jacques BlancCrets de Champel, 9Geneva, CH 1206, Switzerlandj-j.blanc@bioethismscience.org

Ms Fenna Blomsma15 Prince’s GardensLondon, SW7 1NA, United Kingdomf.blomsma12@imperial.ac.uk

Prof. Ockie BoschUniversity of AdelaideBusiness School10 Pulteney StreetAdelaide, SA, 5005, Australia

Mr. Todd David BowersUniversidad del NorteK53 #91-132 Apto 5ABarranquilla, Atlantico, 151, Colombiatdbowers@mac.com

Mr. Abraham BrionesInstituto Politecnico NacionalMz. H edif. 5-A dep. 303 Alborada I .TultitlanEstado de México, Edo. de Mexico, 54930, Mexicoabrahambriones@yahoo.com.mx

Mrs Barbara BrockMünzgrabenstr. 59Graz, 8010, Austriabarbara.brock@hotmail.com

Ms Anne Brodie2501 NW 21st StreetOklahoma City, OK, 73107, USAabrodie@sbcglobal.net

Cathal Brugha90 Cnoc na SiGoatstown, Dublin, 14, Irelandcathal.brugha@ucd.ie

Dr. Pamela Buckle HenningAdelphi University, PO Box 7011 South AvenueGarden City, NY, 11530-0701, United Statesbuckle@adelphi.edu

Dr. Martin BunchFaculty of Environmental Studies, York University4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canadabunchmj@yorku.ca

Dr. Pille Bunnell2366 West 18th aveVancouver, BC, V6L 1A8, Canadalife.works@mac.com

Mr. Marc BürgiUniversity of St.GallenInstitute of Information ManagementMüller-Friedberg-Strasse 8St.Gallen, CH-9000, Switzerlandmarc.buergi@unisg.ch

Ms Deeanna BurlesonSaybrook University116 Charlotte StWashington, NC, 27889, United Statesdeeburleson@gmail.com

Dr. Enrique Campos-LopezCIATEJAv. Normalistas 800Guadalajara, Jalisco, 44270, Mexicoenriquecampos@mac.com

Ms. Melissa Franchini Cavalcanti BandosRua da Justica 450, FrancaSao Paulo, CEP, 14403073, Brazilmelissafcb@gmail.com

A/Prof Robert Y. CavanaVictoria University of WellingtonPO Box 600Wellington, 6140, New Zealandbob.cavana@vuw.ac.nz

Prof. Peter CawsGeorge Washington University1230 H St., NW, Gelman 709FWashington, DC, 20052, USApcaws@gwu.edu

Prof. Peter B. Checkland25 Pinewood AvenueBolton Le Sands, Carnforth Lanes, LA55 8AR, UK

Dr. Alexander N. ChristakisCWA Ltd.1775 Hillside RoadSouthampton, PA, 18966-4515, USAaleco@CWAltd.com

Dr. Gerhard ChroustJ. Kepler University LinzDonaustr. 101/6Maria Enzersdorf, 2344, Austriagerhard.chroust@jku.at

Dr. Claudio CioffiGeorge Mason University4400 University DriveMS 6B2Fairfax, VA, 22030, United Statesccioffi@gmu.edu

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Dennis G Collins1519 S State Rd 119 Apt. 2Winamee, IN, 46996-8550, United Statesd_collins_pr@hotmail.com

Dr. Allan Combs2308 Lakeview DriveSanta Rosa, CA, 95405, USAallan@sourceintegralis.org

Ms. Michelle Condit20 Martin DriveNovato, CA, 94949, United Statesmcondit24@gmail.com

Mr. Philip Cook207 George St.Ingersoll, ON, N5C1Z5, Canadaphilcook@rogers.com

Dr. Noam CookSan Jose State UniversityOne Washington SquareSan Jose, CA, 95192, United Statessdncook@pacbell.net

Dr. Peter A. CorningInstitute for the Study of Complex Systems3501 Beaverton Valley RoadFriday Harbor, WA, 98250, USAiscs@aol.com

Mr Sean William CouttsUniversity of Toronto/OISE906-256 Doris Avenue906-256 Doris AvenueToronto, ON, M2N6X8, Canadasean.coutts@mail.utoronto.ca

Ms. Lisa CowanDepartment of Primary IndustriesPrivate Bag 1, Ferguson RoadTatura, VIC, 3616, Australialisa.cowan@dpi.vic.gov.au

Mr. Joel Patrick Croteau5 Stone CtGales Ferry, CT, 06335, United Statescroteau@pdx.edu

Dr Shoko Dauwels-OkutsuNanyang Technological University50 Nanyang AvenueS3-B1C-91Singapore, 637664, Singaporeshoko@dauwels.com

Mr. Billy Dawson6719 S. CrandonChicago, IL, 60649, United Statesbilly@billydawson.com

Dr. J. Donald R. de RaadtInstitute for Management and Soc ial Systems5B Bundera CircuitMalua Bay, NSW, 2536, Australiadonald@imssaustralia.com

Professor Hiroshi DeguchiTokyo Institute of TechnologySuzukakedai Campus : 4259 Nagatsuta-choMidori-kuYokohama, Kanagawa, 226-8502, Japandeguchi@dis.titech.ac.jp

Mr Nelson Del RioEmergent Intelligence Solutions93 S Jackson St #90397Seattle, WA, 98104, United Statesnelson@e-i-solutions.com

Dr. David Delamore17 Charles Babbage RdCambridge, CB3 0FS, United Kingdomdgd24@cam.ac.uk

Mr. Omar Sacilotto DonairesR. Silva Gusmao 364Ribeirao Preto, SP, 14055-150, Brasilomars@smar.com.br

Dr Manfred DrackFlosserstr 27Scharnstein, 4644, Austriamanfred.drack@univie.ac.at

Prof. Vitaly J. Dubrovsky2296 Pine View CircleSarasota, FL, 34231, USAydubrovsky@comcast.net

Mr. Michael DuFrayneExecutive Sounding Board Associates Ltd2 Penn Center Plaza, Suite 1730Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USAmdufrayne@esba.com

Dr. Mary Edson10280 Allamanda BlvdPalm Beach Gardens, FL, 33410-5215, United Statescoaching4success@msn.com

Mr. Ezzat El HalabiThe Australian National UniversityDepartment of Engineering, Bldg 32North RoadActon, ACT, 2601, Australiaezzat.elhalabi@anu.edu.au

Mr Adrián E. ElizaldeAv.Hidalgo No. 11 San Sebastian Ch. ,La Paz.Edomex, 56400, Mexicoelizalde05@yahoo.com.mx

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Prof. Robert ElmoreBox 5024Department of Accounting and Business LawCookeville, TN, 38501-0001, United Statesrelmore@tntech.edu

Mr. Nicholas Espeset8 Melado DriveSanta Fe, NM, 87508-2254, United Statesnicholas.espeset@gmail.com

Ms. Maria Jose Esteves de VasconcellosRua Journalista Jair Silva 460/501Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte, Brazilestevasc@hotmail.com

Ms. Ana Augusta Ferreira de FreitasRua Visconde de Maua, 470, Apt 400Fortaleza-CE, 60125-160, Brazilfreitas8@terra.com.br

Mr. Dennis FinlaysonFlat 6, 51 Steep TurnpikeMatlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3DP, UKdennisfinlayson56@yahoo.com

Ms Colette M FinnUniversity College Cork20 Croaghta ParkGlasheen RoadCork, None, Irelandfinncolette@eircom.net

Dr. Thomas FischerXi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University111 Ren’ai RoadHigher Education TownSuzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu, 215123, ChinaThomas.Fischer@xjtlu.edu.cn

Prof. Frank FisherSwinbourne Univ. Of TechologyFaculty of DesignPO Box 432Clifton Hill, Victoria, 3068, Australiaffisher@swin.edu.au

Dr. Jay Forrest22375 Fossil RidgeSan Antonio, TX, 78261, USAsystems@jayforrest.com

Prof. Charles O. FrancoisLibertad 742Martinez, Buenos Aires, 1640, Argentinafrancoischg@fibertel.com.ar

Mr. Ricardo Andrés FríasUniversidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco161 Fadul streetUshuaiaTierra del Fuego, 9410, Argentinamegazero@infovia.com.ar

Dr. Susan Farr GabrieleGEMS-Gabriele Educ. Mat;ls & Systems5513 west 140th sthollyglen, CA, 90250, United Statessgabriele@gemslearning.com

Prof. Brian R. Gaines3635 Ocean View CrescentCobble Hill, BC, V0R 1L1, Canadagaines@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Mr. Claudio GameroUniversidad Técnica Federico Santa MariaDepartamento de InformáticaAvenida España 1680Valparaiso, 2390123, Chileclaudio.gamero@usm.cl

Mrs. Tariana Maia GessagaUniversidad Nacional de la Patagonia161 Fadul St.UshuaiaTierra del Fuego, 9410, Argentinatarianamaia@yahoo.com.ar

Dr David GlenisterUniversity of HullCottingham RdHull, HU6 7RJ, United Kingdomd.a.glenister@hull.ac.uk

mr. Ruben Gommersp/a Valckeniershof 8Heveadoorp, 6869 VM, Netherlandsrubengommers@gmail.com

Mr David GreenwoodUniversity of St AndrewsSchool of Computer ScienceNorth HaughSt Andrews, Fife, KY16 9SS, United Kingdomdsg22@st-andrews.ac.uk

Dr. Erik GrönlundMid Sweden UniversityDept. of Engineering and Sustainable DevelopmentCampusÖstersund, 83125, Swedenerik.gronlund@miun.se

Prof. Jifa GuChinese Academy of Sciences55 Zhongguancun East RoadBeijing, 100190, Chinajfgu@amss.ac.cn

Mr Arley David Guzmán VásquezUniversidad de los AndesCalle 127 C No. 5-28 Apartamento 317BBogota, Cundinamarca, 110121, Colombiadavid.guzmanv@gmail.com

Mr. Ansgar HalbfasYuyuan Road 395Shanghai, 200040, Chinaisss12@halbfas.de

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Dr. Debora HammondSonoma State UniversityPO Box 458Cotati, CA, 94931, United Stateshammond@sonoma.edu

Prof. Barbara HansonYork UniversitySociologyYork UniversityToronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canadahansonbg@yorku.ca

Ms. Laura Donna HarrisAmericans for Indian Opportunity1001 Marquette Ave NWAlbuquerque, NM, 87102, USAlharris@aio.org

Dr. Koichi HarunaAzamino 4-26-10, Aoba-kuYokohama, 225-0011, Japanqqqs2fw9k@alpha.ocn.ne.jp

Dr David Hawk94 Tinc RoadFlanders, NJ, 07836, United Statesdavidlhawk@gmail.com

Dr. Misha Hebel54 Hillingdon HillUxbridge, MIDDX, UB10 0JD, United Kingdommh3@tutor.open.ac.uk

Dr. Mary E HendersonSaybrook University4714 Ella BlvdHouston, TX, 77018, United Statesmhenderson.tx@gmail.com

Dr. Christiane Margerita HerrXi’an Jiaotong Liverpool UniversityXi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University111 Ren’ai Road, Higher Education TownSuzhou, Jiangsu, 215123, ChinaChristiane.Herr@xjtlu.edu.cn

Prof. Enrique G. HerrscherMadero 1160Vicente Lopez, 1638, Argentinaenriqueherrscher@fibertel.com.ar

Mr. Andreas HieronymiBahnhofstrasse 22Worb, CH-3076, Switzerlandandreas”hieronymi.com

Dr Tom Hill1329 N. Mississippi StBlue Grass, IA, 52726, United Stateshillthomasw@sau.edu

Dr Brian John HiltonNottingham University Business School199 Tai Kang Dong LuYinzhouNINGBO, Zhejiang, 315100, Chinahilton_brian@hotmail.com

Dr Giles Anthony HindleHull University Business SchoolCottingham RdHULL, HU6 7RX, United Kingdomgiles.hindle@hull.ac.uk

Mrs Catherine Hobbs52 Barnwell LaneCromfordMatlock, DE4 3QY, United KingdomC.Hobbs@2012.hull.ac.uk

Mr Antony HodgsonEbradour LodgePitlochry, CA, PH16 5JW, Scotlandtony@decisionintegrity.co.uk

Dr Peter Holyland54 mary street westbrisbane, 4509, Australiapeter_holyland@hotmail.com

Mr. Haydn HsinThe University of HongKongNo. 1, Aly 10, Ln 50, Sect. 2, Huan-Shan Rd.Nei-Hu DistricTaipei, 114, Taiwanhaydn_hsin@yahoo.com.tw

Dr. Manabu IchikawaRoom1708, J2, 4259, Nagatsutacho, MidorikuYokohama, 226-8502, Japanichikawa@dis.titech.ac.jp

Mr Adam Ing151 Booth AvenueToronto, ON, M4M 2M5, Canadadaviding@ca.ibm.com

Mr. David IngIBM3600 Steeles Avenue East151 Booth AvenueToronto, ON, M4M 2M5, Canadadaviding@ca.ibm.com

Mr. Eric IngUniversity of Toronto151 Booth AvenueToronto, ON, M4M 2M5, Canadaingwu.eric@gmail.com

Mr. Noah IngYork University151 Booth AvenueToronto, ON, M4M 2M5, Canadaing.noah@gmail.com

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Professor Ray IsonThe Open University/MonashC&S DepartmentWalton HallMilton Keynes, MK14 5QL, United Kingdomr.l.ison@open.ac.uk

Prof. Mike C. JacksonUniversity of HullThe Business SchoolCottingham RoadHull, HU6 7RX, UKM.C.Jackson@hull.ac.uk

Miss Anja JanischewskiOeverseegasse 8/8Graz, 8020, Austriaanja.janischewski@gmx.de

Mrs. Deborah L. Jarvie4401 University Drive WestLethbridge, AB, T1K 3M4, Canadajarvdl@uleth.ca

Dr. Peter JonesOCAD University7 Fraser Ave.Toronto, ON, M6K 1Y7, Canadapeter@redesignresearch.com

Dr. Cliff Joslyn124 N 54th StreetSeattle, WA, 98103, USAcjoslyn@pnl.gov

Dr. Roberto R. KampfnerUniversity of Michigan-Dearborn1871 Lindsay LaneAnn Arbor, MI, 48104, United Statesrrk@engin.umd.umich.edu

Dr Maria KapsaliImperial College Business SchoolImperial College Business SchoolSouth KensingtonLondon, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdomkapsalis.maria@gmail.com

Mr. Yves KarrerIn der Mueseren 16Pfaffhausen, CH-8118, Switzerlandy.c.karrer@gmail.com

Prof. Louis Hirsch KauffmanUniversity of Illinois at Chicago5530 South Shore DriveApt 7CChicago, IL, 60637-1946, United Stateskauffman@uic.edu

Prof. C. J. KhistyIllinois Inst. of Technology20 Oak Tree CourtElmhurst, IL, 60126-5231, USAkhisty@iit.edu

Dr Kyoichi KijimaTokyo Institute of Technology2-12-1 OokayamaMeguro-kuTokyo, 152-8552, Japankijima@valdes.titech.ac.jp

Dr John KinemanUniversity of ColoradoUCB-216Boulder, CO, 80309-0216, USAjohn.kineman@colorado.edu

Mr. Christian Kipping6346 Ashley StreetFelton, 95018, United Statesneo7ralis@gmail.com

Mr. Louis KleinSystemic Excellence GroupSystemic Consulting Support GmbHMarienstr. 20Berlin, 10117, Germanylouis.klein@segroup.de

Prof. George Klir401 Manchester Rd.Vestal, NY, 13850, USAgklir@binghamton.edu

Dr. Norimasa KobayashiTokyo Institute of Technology3-4-18-411 NozawaSetagaya-kuTokyo, 154-0003, Japannorimasa.kobayashi@gmail.com

Mr. Deniz KocaLund UniversityLund University, PO Box 124Dept. of Chemical Eng.Lund, Skane, 22100, Swedendeniz.koca@chemeng.lth.se

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