...-developing reflexive-active environment (the third-order cybernetics). Design/methodology/approach This paper includes interdisciplinary analysis of the evolution of cybernetics and possible directions of its development. Findings A connection between the types of scientific rationality (classical...

...Daniel Joh. Adriaenssen; Jon-Arild Johannessen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a general scientific methodology on tenets from Mario Bunge’s philosophy. Design/methodology/approach – Systemic thinking and conceptual generalisation. Findings – A general scientific...

... new understanding to systems, society, methodology, epistemology, wisdom, psychology, hi‐tech, paradox, anthropology, ego, literature, arts, poetics and aesthetics, etc. There are 60 or more related references listed in the paper. Einstein's relativity: a physics theory researching the relative...

... a knowledge‐induced scientific methodology emerges. Yet these scientific dynamic methods that are merely premised on time‐phase, are found to be inadequate in explaining pervasive interactions. Instead, simulation methods reveal important and interesting results premised on the epistemological premise...

...Xuemou Wu; Xiangjun Feng; Dinghe Guo A new expression of the philosophy framework of pansystems theory is stated. Some generalized quantification formulae are developed. Concrete contents include: new forms of panderivative and pansymmetry, meta‐equation, eight‐counter methodology, pansystems...

... beginning?” Views these questions historically and interprets them with further questions and analysis. Discusses the Logos doctrine and the development of scientific methodology. Asks a further question: “Can mindless objects obey mathematical laws?”. Examines the limitations of Leibniz as a scientist...

... limited to theology and literature, whilst constructivism is considered anti‐scientific and may, via its influence on education, be the promoter of “the new slavery”. Discusses these assertions through consideration of scientific methodology evolving five principles which are applied to each of the three...

... © MCB UP Limited 2001 --> Cybernetics Methodology Software The Road to the Unified Software Development Process Ivar JacobsonCambridge University PressNew York358 pp.ISBN 0-521-78774-2Price: $39.95 Keywords: Cybernetics, Methodology, Software...

... the framework of pansystems thinking is cultivated, and a new type of clustering method with many intertransformations among some important pansystems concepts is presented. Related contents include: pansystems combination of mathematics, systems, dialectics and poetry thinking, methodology to comprehend laws...

...Wu Xuemou; Guo Dinghe The framework, methodology and development of pansystems cybernetics are introduced. Related contents include: the postmodernizational systems thought, the epitome of pansystems methods, hi‐tech mechanism, social cybernetics, pansystems views of value, labor, management...

...Maurice Yolles The systems domain maintains methodologies for inquiring into problem situations in order to introduce intervention for some purpose or other. In general each derives from a distinct paradigm that some suggest represents a condition of fragmentation. We offer a way of seeing systems...

...”. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Behavioural sciences Learning Methodology Neural networks Organizations Kybernetes 23,6/7 104 What Is There to Know? Alex M. Andrew Lifton, Devon, UK Kybernetes, Vol. 23 Nos. 6/7, 1994, pp. 104-110. © MCB University Press, 0368-492X Background The emergence...

...P.R. Masani Presents the scientific methodology from the enlarged cybernetical perspective that recognizes the anisotropy of time, the probabilistic character of natural laws, and the entry that the incomplete determinism in Nature opens to the occurrence of innovation, growth, organization...

...James Steve Counelis Briefly maps the intellectual terrain of a generic system of enquiry — the metatheory of case study research. Draws a distinction between a generic research design and a methodology: the former is an overarching research plan, the latter refers to data‐generating processes...

...Wu Chen Puts forward a new method for decomposing relational schemas by using semi‐equivalence relations based on pansystems methodology. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained for determining whether there exists a subschema logically available in a given relational schema decomposition...

... techniques. Brainstorming Decision Analysis Heuristic Methods Methodology Kybernetes 20,3 42 Received in Final Form 30 January 1990 Elements of Morphogenesis and Pattern Recognition Methods in the Process of Engineering Creation F.W. Przystupa Technical University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland...