Originally published as Kybernetes Volume 35 Number 7/8, 2006
ISBN: 1 84663 052 5
Guest Edited by: Matjaz Mulej
This special issue is a compilation of selected papers on the theme of “Systems, cybernetics and innovation” from the 13th International Congress of the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC), Slovenia, July 2005 and is guest edited by Professor Matjaz Mulej, University of Maribor.
The articles present research and development in a number of areas: Artificial-Natural Dualism; Economic Systems; Education Systems; Engineering and Information Systems; Grey Systems; Management Systems; Mathematical Systems; Nature Systems; Tourism Cybernetics; Viable Organizations; and World Education Systems.
Contents:
Coverage, invariability and orbits by structural functions
Based on some of the results and definitions provided in the paper “system linkage: structural functions and hierarchies” and adding new definitions that are in keeping with the spirit of the same paper, new results have been obtained that explore the utility of the structural input-output function.
Interdependence of systems theories – potential innovation supporting innovation
This paper shows that systems theory (ST) has surfaced as innovation of worldview and thinking, aimed at holism. After ST's subordination to narrow specialists using it inside traditional disciplines, if at all, humankind needs a new innovation of ST. An option is offered.
Design for viable organizations: The diagnostic power of the viable system model
This paper attempts to underpin the theoretical claim of the viable system model to specify the necessary and sufficient preconditions of organizations for viability.
An evolutionary view of innovation
The early appearance of a form of innovation is accounted for as a feature of the evolutionary origins of intelligence. This is part of a view of intelligence in which the manipulation of continuous variables is argued to be more primitive than concept-based processing.
What do transition organizations lack to be innovative?
Innovativeness is probably the most effective way for organizations in the transition economies to improve their competitiveness. The purpose of this research is to find those factors, which significantly contribute to the innovativeness of organizations in the oldest market-based economies but they have not been developed in the transition organizations.
Manager's requisite holism between personal and organisational values
This article provides a link between psychology and management in order to promote a requisitely holistic thinking about human values. Managers need co-workers rather than employees. Hence, they must holistically see their own, their co-workers' and their organization's values.
Cooperation and opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing
The aim of this paper is to investigate possible opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing relationships and to indicate possibilities about how to avoid it.
Using systems dynamics for human resources management in information systems security
This article takes a look at enabling quantitative and qualitative modelling of information systems security management that takes into account technology and human factors.
The economic-cultural context of the EU economies
This article analyzes the European Union (EU) economies in the economic-cultural context using a combination of soft variables and hard economic indicators in different time periods.
Fractal planning for integral economic development
Here, the authors conceptualize a new approach to economic development that fully embraces its fractal complexity, providing a basis for sustained socioeconomic welfare within cultures that encourage collaborative democracy and social learning.
Systems approach to complex systems modelling with special regards to tourism
This paper presents a simulation model of tourism in a frame of system dynamics, developed from qualitative models, as an illustration of the discussed methodology.
Systemic decision analysis approaches: Requisite tools for developing creative ideas into innovations
This paper demonstrates that the modern operations research methods can help strengthen innovation and holistic thinking capacity much more than traditional ones.
Systemic approach for innovative education process
This paper attempts to measure a complex subject of innovation processes in school in close interdependence with the teacher, educational system and supporting environment.
A complex adaptive systems approach to efficiency and innovation
The primary objective of this paper is to discuss whether complexity science can help overcome management's dilemma of how to balance efficiency and innovation.
Systemic approach to innovations – standards vs software
This article finds that managers should take active role in standard setting and software patenting.
Communication and information technologies to enable viable organizations
This paper attempts to show how the new communication and information technologies and the internet in particular can help in the design of viable organizations.
Innovative influence
This article describes the experience of introducing contemporary West management methods in Russian University's management courses and in practice of West-Siberian rail road management.
Innovative organization approach to sustainable tourism development in rural areas
The model presented here introduces an original approach to destination management and allows its application in a wide range of real situations. It can help achieving a better organization and thus an improved competitiveness of a rural destination.
Intellectics and inventics
The main aim of the paper is to show the necessary convergence of two promising but under-explored research fields, intellectics and inventics, into a new one, that of intellectual invention, and to discuss new ways of thinking which can be efficient in building an invention culture.
The dialectical network thinking – a new systems theory concerned with management
This article shows that holism, which has been the original aim of the systems theory as a worldview of holism rather than reductionism, is best attained by application of those versions of systems theory that result from synergies of mutually complementary systems theories as methodologies.
Marketing of public and private affairs – a link
This article presents the public and business systems, their characteristics, structure of link, and to propose tools of improvement.
Modelling regional economic development
The methodology presented here can be used in combination with “classical” methods of research, that will can help to recommend optimum development strategies for regional economic development.
Informational topology and globalisation process
This article sets out to explain the objectivity of the globalization process by using the mathematical theory of topological structures.
Moral invention in meaning-constituting systems
This paper presents the concept of moral invention as discussed by philosopher Paul Ricoeur and examines how the selections operated by systems described by Niklas Luhmann as meaning-constituting systems allow for the emergence of distinctions that would qualify as moral invention.
Uncertain variables as a tool for analysis and decision making in uncertain knowledge-based systems
This article presents new results concerning the applications of the uncertain variables to analysis and decision problems in a class of uncertain knowledge-based systems described by a relational knowledge representation.
Inverse transfer and epistemo-praxiology
This article presents the concept of inverse transfer of the internal structures of a dynamical system to the perception it has of its environment and itself.
The quantum turn in cybernetics
This article presents the concept of inverse transfer of the internal structures of a dynamical system to the perception it has of its environment and itself.
On index system and mathematical model for evaluation of scientific and technical strength
A appraises the scientific and technical strength of a region. In order to make the appraisal scientifically, we need an index system and a evaluation model.
Multi-attribute grey incidence decision model for interval number
This article studies the multi-attribute incidence decision-making problems for interval number and models the incidence decision-making model of multi-attribute interval number.
Study on venture problem of potential optimal pure strategy solution for grey interval number matrix game
This paper recognizes and defines overrated and underrated risk of potential optimal pure strategy in the grey game and designs arithmetic for determining player's overrated and underrated risk under the situation of potential optimal pure strategy.
Topics in ASC discussion: Cybernetics and systems on the web
Selections from topics discussed on the CybCom list over a particularly active period in early 2006 are reviewed. These include the relevance of autopoiesis to sociology, courses of instruction on cybernetics, cybernetics applied to social theory, the “ethical imperative” of von Foerster, and Günther's “polylogic”. Other lists on the internet are also described.
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