Second Generation General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems
Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems
MDPI (Publisher)
Published on 22. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 212 pages
978-3-03842-440-6 (ISBN)
Description
Following the classical work of Norbert Wiener, Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy and many others, the concept of System has been elaborated in different disciplinary fields, allowing interdisciplinary approaches in areas such as Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Economics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy. The new challenge of Complexity and Emergence has made the concept of System even more relevant to the study of problems with high contextuality. This Special Issue focuses on the nature of new problems arising from the study and modelling of complexity, their eventual common aspects, properties and approaches-already partially considered by different disciplines-as well as focusing on new, possibly unitary, theoretical frameworks. This Special Issue aims to introduce fresh impetus into systems research when the possible detection and correction of mistakes require the development of new knowledge. This book contains contributions presenting new approaches and results, problems and proposals. The context is an interdisciplinary framework dealing, in order, with electronic engineering problems; the problem of the observer; transdisciplinarity; problems of organised complexity; theoretical incompleteness; design of digital systems in a user-centred way; reaction networks as a framework for systems modelling; emergence of a stable system in reaction networks; emergence at the fundamental systems level; behavioural realization of memoryless functions.
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Language
English
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Professional/Scholar
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Laminated cover
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-03842-440-6 (9783038424406)
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Guest editor
Gianfranco Minati, graduated in Mathematics from the University of Milano. He has switched from an executive position in a large industrial-financial Italian group (1979-1984) to Research. He is the founder (1996) and president of the Italian Systems Society http://www.airs.it; president of the European Union for Systemics http://www.ues-eus.eu/; doctoral lecturer at the Polytechnic of Milan http://www.abc.polimi.it/fileadmin/abc/images/news/PHD_event/phdcourse0170209.pdf. In the US, he was a member of the Consulting Faculty at the Saybrook University, San Francisco, and adjunct faculty at the OHIO State University (OSU). His research activities deal with collective behaviour; dynamic usage of models; emergence; ergodicity; logical openness; mesoscopic coherence; meta-structures; multiple-systems; quasi-systems; systems science; theoretical incompleteness. Author of 40 articles, 15 books, 32 chapters in edited books, and editor of seven books. For more information, see http://www.gianfrancominati.net/.
Eliano Pessa holds both a graduate and a postgraduate degree in Physics. After working at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, as an associate professor of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, currently he is a full professor of General Psychology and Cognitive Modelling at the University of Pavia (see http://psicologia.unipv.it/didattica/docenti.html?chronoform=dettagliodoc&rec=208). He is also a member of the managing committee of the Italian Association for Systems Research. His research activities deal with Computational Neuroscience; Theoretical Physics; Complex Systems; Cognitive Science; Artificial Intelligence; Philosophy of Science. In particular, he contributed to the theory of phase transitions and emergence processes as well as to a number of foundational problems of Quantum Field Theory and to the building of a theory of consciousness and of a model of depressive disorder. He is the author or co-author of 10 books, co-editor of six volumes and author of more than 100 papers in international and national journals.
Ignazio Licata, theoretical Physicist, is Scientific Director of Inst. for Sci. Methodology (ISEM), Palermo. He is professor at the School of Advanced International Studies on Theoretical and non-Linear Methodologies of Physics, Bari, Italy, and at the International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences (IIAMIS), B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad 500, India. He is Editor of the Electronic Journal of Theoretical Physics (EJTP), member of the editorial board of Quantum Biosystems and Il Nucleare and of the association Computability in Europe (CiE). His research areas include Foundation of Quantum Mechanics; Quantum Cosmology; Dissipative Quantum Field Theories; Quantum Information; and Physics of Emergence and Organization. His recent books are entitled Quantum Potential. Physics, Geometry, Algebra (with D. Fiscaletti), Springer 2013, and Beyond Peaceful Coexistence. The Emergence of Space, Time and Quantum (editor), ICP 2015. His recent work is on sub and super Turing Systems, with particular emphasis on Quantum Pattern Recognition.