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Conference Congresso italiano di sistemica (5th : 2010 : Marche Polytechnic University, Italy)

Title Methods, models, simulations and approaches towards a general theory of change : proceedings of the fifth national conference of the Italian Systems Society / edited by Gianfranco Minati, Mario Abram, Eliano Pessa.

Publication Info. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 704 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and socio-economic systems growing and developing through innovations. Some approaches to modelling such processes are based on considering changes in structure, e.g., phase-transitions. Other approaches are based on considering (1) periodic changes in structure as for processes of self-organisation; (2) non-periodic but coherent changes in structure, as for processes of emergence; (3) the quantum level of description. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of change in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence. Within this transdisciplinary context, specific disciplinary research activities and results are assumed to be mutually represented as within a philosophical and conceptual framework based on the theoretical centrality of the observer and conceptual non-separability of context and observer, related to logically open systems and Quantum Entanglement. Contributions deal with such issues in interdisciplinary ways considering theoretical aspects and applications from Physics, Cognitive Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Architecture, Philosophy, Music and Social Systems.
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Subject System theory -- Congresses.
System theory.
Change -- Congresses.
Change.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Minati, Gianfranco.
Abram, Mario (Mario R.)
Pessa, Eliano.
Other Form: Print version: Associazione italiana per la ricerca sui sistemi. Conference (5th : 2010 : Marche Polytechnic University, Italy). Methods, models, simulations and approaches towards a general theory of change. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2012 9789814383325 (OCoLC)759916436
ISBN 9789814383332 (electronic book)
9814383333 (electronic book)
9789814383325
9814383325