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1 online resource (xxi, 816 pages) : illustrations, maps, music |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
"The title of the fourth national conference of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS), 'Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties: towards a general theory of emergence'."--Page vii. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Coherence, complexity and creativity / Fortunato Tito Arecchi -- Environment and architecture -- a paradigm shift / Valerio Di Battista -- Emergence of architectural phenomena in the human habitation of space / Arne Collen -- Questions of method on interoperability in architecture / Ezio Arlati, Giorgio Giallocosta -- Comprehensive plans for a culture-driven local development : emergence as a tool for understanding social impacts of projects on built cultural heritage / Stefano Della Torre, Andrea Canziani -- Systemic and architecture : current theoretical issues / Giorgio Giallocosta -- Modeling the 360[symbol] innovating firm as a multiple system or collective being / Véronique Bouchard -- The COD model : simulating workgroup performance / Lucio Biggiero, Enrico Sevi -- Importance of the infradisciplinary areas in the systemic approach towards new company organisational models : the building industry / Giorgio Giallocosta -- Systemic openness of the economy and normative analysis / Paolo Ramazzotti -- Motivational antecedents of individual innovation / Patrizia Picci, Adalgisa Battistelli -- An e-usability view of the web : a systemic method for user interfaces / Vera Stara, Maria Pietronilla Penna, Guido Tascini -- Evolutionary computation and emergent modeling of natural phenomena / R. Rongo [and others] -- A new model for the organizational knowledge life cycle / Luigi Lella, Ignazio Licata -- On generalization : constructing a general concept from a single example / Shelia Guberman -- General theory of emergence beyond systemic generalization / Gianfranco Minati -- Uncertainty, coherence, emergence / Giordano Bruno -- Emergence and gravitational conjectures / Paolo Allievi, Alberto Trotta -- Inducing systems thinking in consumer societies / Gianfranco Minati, Larry A. Magliocca -- Contextual analysis. A multiperspective inquiry into emergence of complex socio-cultural systems / Peter M. Bednar -- Job satisfaction and organizational commitment : affective commitment predictors in a group of professionals / Maria Santa Ferretti -- Organizational climate assessment : a systemic perspective / Piergiorgio Argentero, Ilaria Setti -- Environment and urban tourism : an emergent system in rhetorical place identity definitions / Marina Mura -- Different approaches to semantics in knowledge representation / S. David, A. Montesanto, C. Rocchi -- Bidimensional turing machines as Galilean models of human computation / Marco Giunti -- A neural model of face recognition : a comprehensive approach / Vera Stara [and others] -- Anticipatory cognitive systems : a theoretical model / Graziano Terenzi -- Decision making models within incomplete information games / Natale Bonfiglio, Simone Percivalle, Eliano Pessa -- Burnout and job engagement in emergency and intensive care nurses / Piergiorgio Argentero, Bianca Dell'olivo -- The "implicit" ethics of a systemic approach to the medical praxis / Alberto Ricciuti -- Post traumatic stress disorder in emergency workers : risk factors and treatment / Piergiorgio Argentero, Bianca Dell'Olivo, Ilaria Setti -- State variability and psychopathological attractors. The behavioural complexity as discriminating factor between the pathology and normality profiles / Pier Luigi Marconi -- Decomposition of systems and complexity / Mario R. Abram -- How many stars are there in heaven? The results of a study of universe in the light of stability theory / Umberto Di Caprio -- Description of a complex system through recursive functions / Guido Massa Finoli -- Issues on critical infrastructures / Mario R. Abram, Marino Sforna -- Downward causation and relatedness in emergent systems : epistemological remarks / Leonardo Bich -- Towards a general theory of change / Eliano Pessa -- Acquired emergent properties / Gianfranco Minati -- The growth of populations of protocells / Roberto Serra [and others] -- Investigating cell criticality / R. Serra [and others] -- Relativistic stability. Part 1 -- Relation between special relativity and stability theory in the two-body problem / Umberto Di Caprio -- Relativistic stability. Part 2 -- A study of black-holes and of the Schwarzschild radius / Umberto Di Caprio -- The formation of coherent domains in the process of symmetry breaking phase transitions / Emilio Del Giudice, Giuseppe Vitiello -- Organizations as cognitive systems. Is knowledge an emergent property of information networks? / Lucio Biggiero -- Communication, silence and miscommunication / Maria Pietronilla Penna, Sandro Mocci, Cristina Sechi -- Music : creativity and structure transitions / Emanuela Pietrocini -- The emergence of figural effects in the watercolor illusion / Baingio Pinna, Maria Pietronilla Penna -- Continuities and discontinuities in motion perception / Baingio Pinna, Richard L. Gregory -- Mother and infant talk about mental states : systemic emergence of psychological lexicon and theory of mind understanding / D. Rollo, F. Buttiglieri -- Conflict in relationships and perceived support in innovative work behavior / Adalgisa Battistelli, Patrizia Picci, Carlo Odoardi -- Role variables vs. contextual variables in the theory of didactic systems / Monica Alberti, Lucia Cirina, Francesco Paoli. |
| Summary |
This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of emergence, considering theoretical aspects and applications from physics, cognitive science, biology, artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, philosophy, music and social systems. Such an interdisciplinary study implies the need to model and distinguish, in different disciplinary contexts, the establishment of structures, systems and systemic properties. Systems, as modeled by the observer, not only possess properties, but are also able to make emergent new properties. While current disciplinary models of emergence are based on theories of phase transitions, bifurcations, dissipative structures, multiple systems and organization, the present volume focuses on both generalizing those disciplinary models and identifying correspondences and new more general approaches. The general conceptual framework of the book relates to the attempt to build a general theory of emergence as a general theory of change, corresponding to Von Bertalanffy's project for a general system theory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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System theory -- Congresses.
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System theory. |
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Emergence (Philosophy) -- Congresses.
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Emergence (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Minati, Gianfranco.
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Abram, Mario (Mario R.)
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Pessa, Eliano.
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Associazione italiana per la ricerca sui sistemi.
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Print version: Congresso italiano di sistemica (4th : 2007 : Trento, Italy). Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2009 9789812793461 (DLC) 2009277305 (OCoLC)198759819 |
| ISBN |
9789812793478 (electronic book) |
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981279347X (electronic book) |
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9812793461 |
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9789812793461 |
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