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“Reporting Complexity (with Complexity): General Systems Theory,Complexity and Simulation Modeling“ See the PPT slides from a vid-conference lecture from Santa Fe to INDIANA UNIVERSITY –PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS School of Public and Environmental Affairs School of Journalism COURSE:Mass Media &Public Affairs March 31,2010 ============================================================================= A number of friends and associates,for whom we have the greatest respect,say this is one of the best,most enriching conferences in the U.S. It is not cheap,but there are vacation condos to be found in the area that would help to make this affordable. The IAJ plans to be there. Hope [...] A couple of articles have passed across our desk in recent days that illustrate the impact —and importance of understanding –decentralized (or “distributed”) systems and complex adaptive systems. For starters,take a look at “Reinventing 911 How a swarm of networked citizens is building a better emergency broadcast system.”http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/warning.html Author Gary Wolf [...] “Positive Deviance”Has a nice ring to it,don't you think? In fact,the concept has been batted around for 14-plus years and has evolved enough to have its own physical and virtual place in the universe at the Plexus Institute and Tufts University Positive Deviance Initiative. “Positive Deviance …demonstrates that isolated examples of [...] The Boston Indicators Project,a joint effort of The Boston Foundation and the City of Boston,Massachusetts,used systems thinking in their 2002 report,Creativity & Innovation: A Bridge to the Future. The Foundation worked with systems thinking consultants (Daniel Aronson,Four Profit Inc;Phil Clawson,Community Matters Group;and Brendan Miller and Osamu Uehara of [...] The following links provide general background information on the field of Cybernetics and Systems Theory,an interdisciplinary academic domain. “People,when initially introduced to structures,also referred to as Archetypes,often find them a bit overwhelming. They really aren't at all difficult once you get used to them. The following is an introduction to structures and how to read the stories associated with the diagrams.”http://www.systems-thinking.org/intst/int.htm Be sure to work upstream in the URL [...] System Dynamics Society System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex feedback systems,such as one finds in business and other social systems. In fact it has been used to address practically every sort of feedback system. While the word system has been applied to all sorts of situations,feedback is the differentiating [...] <>The System Dynamics Group was founded in the early 1960s by Professor Jay W. Forrester at MIT. At that time,he began applying what he had learned about systems during his work in electrical engineering to every day kinds of systems. What makes using system dynamics different from other approaches to studying complex systems is [...] For a good jumpstation related to GST,see:http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CYBSYSLI.html | ||||||
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