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From Algorithms to Ecosystems: Conceptual Links Between Artificial Intelligence and Biological Control

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The growing convergence between artificial intelligence (AI) and biological sciences has revealed important conceptual parallels between computational systems and ecological processes. This study proposes a systems‐based framework to move beyond purely metaphorical comparisons by distinguishing three analytical levels of correspondence between
João Marcos Rodrigues dos Santos
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Organizations and Second Order Cybernetics

, 1985
This paper expounds a way of seeing organizations that fits with second order cybernetics. It shows the relationship between cybernetics and radical constructivism and discusses the meaning of autonomy as it is used by cyberneticians.
Smith, Kenwyn K., Steier, Frederick
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Embodied Cognition and Predictive Processing in Systems Practice Education: Designing an MSc Programme

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes an advance in systems education supporting the teaching and learning of embodied systems thinking practice through an innovative master's‐level programme developed by the authors as part of the Birmingham Leadership Institute academic team at the University of Birmingham, UK.
Rachel Lilley, Juanita Bernal‐Alvarado
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Contemporary and Future Challenges for Structured Democratic Dialogue

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structured Democratic Dialogue (SDD) is a participatory problem structuring methodology grounded in Structured Dialogic Design Science. It was created to help diverse stakeholders co‐construct influence maps that reveal leverage points and support coordinated action.
Yiannis Laouris, Gerald Midgley
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Cybernetics

, 2004
In this chapter, we shall focus our attention in the first place on the specific topics and key concepts of the original program in cybernetics and their significance for some classical philosophic problems.
CORDESCHI, Roberto
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Toward an Intermediate Structural Representation of Organization in Complex Systems

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organization is widely recognized as a fundamental concept in complex systems science, yet it rarely appears as an explicit object of scientific representation. Existing approaches successfully represent components, interactions, mechanisms, dynamical states, networks, or functions, but organizational properties are generally inferred from ...
Paméla Magotte
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The Viable Change Framework: Linking Theory of Change and Organisational Viability for Quality Enhancement in Higher Education

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Higher education institutions operate in complex environments that challenge conventional approaches to quality assurance, improvement and enhancement. Drawing on organisational cybernetics and complexity‐aware evaluation, this study develops a viable change framework (VCF) linking a programme's theory of change (ToC) with a viable system ...
Andrea Clark, Sarah Carr, Jeff Foote
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When Reform Failure Stabilises Governance Systems: Recursive Regulation and Political Attractor Shifts in Complex Adaptive Governance

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances a systems‐theoretical framework for understanding reform dissipation in politically governed complex adaptive systems. Rather than treating failure as deviation from intended design, the framework conceptualises reform dissipation as recursive regulation within threshold‐sensitive attractor landscapes—a reframing with ...
Clas Mellby
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From feedback culture to cybernetics

, 2014
Cílem článku je v historickém kontextu analyzovat základy, na nichž stojí dnešní vědní obor kybernetika, a nabídnout takovou defi nici kybernetiky, která by odpovídala jak jejím původním kořenům, tak i aktuální institucionalizované vědeckovýzkumné
Romportl, Jan
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The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
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