Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development

Cover......Page 1
SYSTEMICS OF EMERGENCE: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Program Committee......Page 11
Contributing Authors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 18
OPENING LECTURE......Page 19
UNCERTAINTY AND INFORMATION: EMERGENCE OF VAST NEW TERRITORIES......Page 20
1 APPLICATIONS......Page 46
COMPLEXITY IN UNIVERSE DYNAMIC EVOLUTION. PART 1 - PRESENT STATE AND FUTURE EVOLUTION......Page 47
COMPLEXITY IN UNIVERSE DYNAMIC EVOLUTION. PART 2 - PRECEDING HISTORY......Page 66
MISTAKE MAKING MACHINES......Page 82
EXPLICIT VELOCITY FOR MODELLING SURFACE COMPLEX FLOWS WITH CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND APPLICATIONS......Page 94
ANALYSIS OF FINGERPRINTS THROUGH A REACTIVE AGENT......Page 108
USER CENTERED PORTAL DESIGN: A CASE STUDY IN WEB USABILITY......Page 120
2 BIOLOGY AND HUMAN CARE......Page 130
LOGIC AND CONTEXT IN SCHIZOPHRENIA......Page 131
THE \"HOPE CAPACITY\" IN THE CARE PROCESS AND THE PATIENT-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP......Page 147
PUNTONET 2003. A MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND SYSTEMIC APPROACH IN TRAINING DISABLED PEOPLE WITHIN THE EXPERIENCE OF VILLA S. IGNAZIO......Page 161
INTELLIGENCE AND COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT: FROM PHYSIOLOGY TO PATHOLOGY. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCES AND THEORETICAL MODELS......Page 169
DISABLEMENT, ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND COMPUTER ACCESSIBILITY: HINTS OF ANALYSIS THROUGH A CLINICAL APPROACH BASED ON THE ICF MODEL......Page 183
CHAOS AND CULTURAL FASHIONS......Page 192
3 COGNITIVE SCIENCE......Page 204
PERSONALITY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS. AN EXPANDED VIEW......Page 205
COMPLEXITY AND PATERNALISM......Page 219
A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF FACE PERCEPTION......Page 234
THE NEON COLOR SPREADING AND THE WATERCOLOR ILLUSION: PHENOMENAL LINKS AND NEURAL MECHANISMS......Page 246
USABILITY AND MAN-MACHINE INTERACTION......Page 266
OLD MAPS AND THE WATERCOLOR ILLUSION: CARTOGRAPHY, VISION SCIENCE AND FIGURE-GROUND SEGREGATION PRINCIPLES......Page 271
4 EMERGENCE......Page 289
AUTOPOIESIS AND EMERGENCE......Page 290
TYPICAL EMERGENCIES IN ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS......Page 302
STRATEGIES OF ADAPTATION OF MAN TO HIS ENVIRONMENT: PROJECTION OUTIDE THE HUMAN BODY OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS......Page 320
EMERGENCE OF THE COOPERATION COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO ROBOTS......Page 326
OVERCOMING COMPUTATIONALISM IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE......Page 350
PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL EMERGENCE: ARE THEY DIFFERENT ?......Page 363
5 GENERAL SYSTEMS......Page 383
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SYSTEMS......Page 384
TOWARDS A SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE......Page 398
MUSIC, EMERGENCE AND PEDAGOGICAL PROCESS......Page 406
INTRINSIC UNCERTAINTY IN THE STUDY OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS: THE CASE OF CHOICE OF ACADEMIC CAREER......Page 423
A MODEL OF HYPERTEXTUAL STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION......Page 433
6 LEARNING......Page 441
TEACHERS IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND HYPERTEXTUAL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES......Page 442
THE EMERGENCE OF E.LEARNING......Page 452
SPATIAL LEARNING IN CHILDREN......Page 457
7 MANAGEMENT......Page 465
DYNAMICS OF STRATEGY: A FEEDBACK APPROACH TO CORPORATE STRATEGY-MAKING......Page 466
A COGNITIVE APPROACH TO ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY......Page 497
NORMATIVE COMMITMENT TO THE ORGANIZATION, SUPPORT AND SELF COMPETENCE......Page 516
A MULTIVARIATE CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF MOBBING, USING THE QAM 1.5 QUESTIONNAIRE......Page 528
REPRESENTATION IN PSYCHOMETRICS: CONFIRMATORY FACTOR MODELS OF JOB SATISFACTION IN A GROUP OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF......Page 536
8 SOCIAL SYSTEMS......Page 550
THE IMPACT OF EMAIL ON SYSTEM IDENTITY AND AUTONOMY: A CASE STUDY IN SELF-OBSERVATION......Page 551
SOME COMMENTS ON DEMOCRACY AND MANIPULATING CONSENT IN WESTERN POST-DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES......Page 569
METASYSTEM TRANSITIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN HUMAN ORGANIZATIONS. PART 1 - TOWARDS ORGANIZATIONAL SYNERGETICS......Page 585
METASYSTEM TRANSITIONS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN HUMANORGANIZATIONS. PART 2 - A HEURISTICS FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY......Page 601
9 SYSTEMIC APPROACH AND INFORMATION SCIENCE......Page 613
SCALE FREE GRAPHS IN DYNAMIC KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION......Page 614
RECENT RESULTS ON RANDOM BOOLEAN NETWORKS......Page 624
COLOR-ORIENTED CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL......Page 634
10 THEORETICAL ISSUES IN SYSTEMICS......Page 650
UNCERTAINTY AND THE ROLE OF THE OBSERVER......Page 651
TOWARDS A SECOND SYSTEMICS......Page 665
IS BEING COMPUTATIONAL AN INTRINSIC PROPERTY OF A DYNAMICAL SYSTEM?......Page 681
THE ORIGIN OF ANALOGIES IN PHYSICS......Page 693
PRISONER DILEMMA: A MODEL TAKING INTO ACCOUNT EXPECTANCIES......Page 705
THE THEORY OF LEVELS OF REALITY AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIMPLE AND TANGLED HIERARCHIES......Page 713
GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY, LIKE-QUANTUM SEMANTICS AND FUZZY SETS......Page 721
ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A CARTESIAN THEORY UPON SYSTEMS, INFORMATION AND CONTROL......Page 733