UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dear ISSS Members

James R. Simms will be offering a tutorial at the ISSS Conference. Please
review the DRAFT program schedule for time and date.

Regards,

Harold Nelson

 

Tutorial:
James R. Simms

Fundamental Systems Science Principles

This presentation is for systems science scholars, practitioners, and
students who are interested in the fundamental principles of systems
science and in the unification of the "hard" (nonliving systems) and the
"soft" (living systems) sciences. Emergence of systems science
principles is presented from a historical perspective. The fundamental
principles applicable to both nonliving and living systems are stated
along with those principles applicable only to living systems. The
development and verification of these principles are described.
Unification of the nonliving and the living systems sciences is also
treated.

 


Dear ISSS Colleagues and Friends,

Call for Participation at Asilomar: Daily Morning Roundtable!

Everyone is invited to our third annual morning Roundtable to take place
daily from 7:15-8:15AM, before breakfast, July 9-July 13, Room TBA. Join
us every day, or whenever you like! (This year, we also will be exploring a
"Wrap Up Roundtable" after the plenary session on July 13.)

Our Roundtable purposes are to open a space for daily reflection on our
ideals, that is, what we want to learn and create; to increase time for each
of us to talk from our hearts and minds about what we are thinking,
experiencing, and learning now; and to be listened to by the others in the
group, enjoying and learning with each other in a new way. To make our
purposes and format transparent, we will have the roundtable guidelines on
each chair for easy referral. Our format is: We spend 6 minutes listening
to the Roundtable guidelines; we then spend 54 minutes on individual
reflections or learning reports, time distributed equally among all
present (e.g. 27 people = about 2 minutes each). Our suggested topic for
the first morning might be: "What situations and projects did you leave
behind to come here, and what could happen here that would make it worth
your while?" Each day, a different topic will be suggested by the
facilitator of the day.

Relating to the ISSS general conference themes, the Roundtable's aim is to
cover two agendas. First, in one short hour each day for five days in a
row, we will hear twenty-plus points of view around an agenda or topic of
interest to ISSS members and guests, including points of view from the
underrepresented and the under-appreciated. Second, we will continue
exploring this new type of "Roundtable" whose processes are congruent with
many of our values and purposes. Namely, it provides new opportunities for
values clarification, equity, diversity appreciation, authenticity, critical
self-reflective listening/ speaking, as well as shared leadership/service:
that is, sharing the prestige of leadership and the workload of service
among all who attend. Moreover, we propose that, just as we break the sound
barrier when we travel faster than the speed of sound, we can break the
communication barrier when we hear 25 authentic viewpoints in 50 minutes.

Please contact us to express your interest in attending so that we can plan
for handouts, seating, and coffee.

Looking forward to exploring this with you all,

Sue Gabriele

 

ISSS 45th Annual Conference DRAFT - 5/20/01 - DRAFT

July 8th ­ Sunday

12:00 N ­ 5:45 PM Conference Registration

1:15 ­ 4:15 Workshops

6:00 ­ 7:00 Dinner

7:07 Sunset

7:30 ­ 8:30 Welcoming Reception

July 9th ­ Monday

7:15 ­ 8:15 Morning Roundtable

7:30 AM ­ 9:00 Breakfast

9:00 ­ 9:30 Welcome and Announcements

9:30 ­ 10:30 Keynote: Dr. Len Duhl

10:30 ­ 10:45 break

10:45 ­ 11:45 Keynote: Dr. Wes Jackson

12:00 N ­ 1:00 Lunch

1:15 ­ 2:45 Plenary ­ Background; D. Hammond & K. Bausch

2:45 ­ 3:30 break

3:30 ­ 4:15 Plenary ­ Common Ground; B. H. Banathy & Patrick Jenlink

4:15 ­ 5:00 Common Ground­ AGORA

5:00 ­ 5:30 Common Ground ­ ASC

5:30 ­ 6:00 Common Ground - ISCE

6:00 ­ 7:00 dinner

7:06 Sunset

7:30 ­ 8:00 Distributed Sites

July 10th ­ Tuesday

7:15 ­ 8:15 Morning Roundtable

7:30 ­ 9:00 AM breakfast

9:00 ­ 9:15 Announcements (intro ISSS Self Reflection Process)

9:15 ­ 10:00 Plenary ­ Background; L. Troncale

10:00 ­ 10:15 break

10:15 ­ 11:00 Plenary ­ Common Ground; H. Blanco

11:00 ­ 11:45 Plenary ­ Common Ground; BH Banathy

12:00 N ­ 1:00 lunch

1:00 ­ 1:30 free time

1:30 ­ 3:00 parallel sessions

o SIG 16; Information Systems Design
o SIG 21; Designing Educational Syst.
o SIG 34; Women and Children in Syst.

3:00 ­ 3:30 break

3:30 ­ 5:00+ parallel sessions

o SIG 16
o SIG 21
o SIG 34

5:00 ­ 6:00 Trustee Meeting

6:00 ­ 7:00 dinner

7:05 Sunset

7::30 ­ 8:30 Video/Distributed Site

 

 

 

July 11th ­ Wednesday

7:15 ­ 8:15 Morning Roundtable

7:30 AM ­ 9:00 breakfast

9:00 ­ 9:15 Announcement

9:15 ­ 10:15 Distributed Site Keynote

10:15 ­ 10:30 break

10:30 ­ 11:45 parallel sessions

o SIG 2; Hierarchy Theory
o SIG 8; Futurism & Change
o SIG 16; Info. Systems Design
o SIG 34; Women & Children

12:00 N ­ 1:00 lunch

1:00 ­ 1:30 free time

1:30 ­ 3:00 parallel sessions

o SIG 1; Business/Industrial Systems
o SIG 16; Info Systems Design
o SIG 24; Human Systems Inquiry
o Special Topic SIG

3:00 ­ 3:30 break

3:30 ­ 5:00 parallel sessions

o SIG 1;
o SIG 6; Informatics & Communication
o SIG 23; Spirituality and Systems
o SIG 24;

5:00 ­ 6:00 Board Meeting

6:00 ­ 7:00 dinner

7:04 Sun Down

7:30 ­ 8:30 Students Dialogue w/ Past Presidents

July 12th ­ Thursday

7:15 ­ 8:15 Morning Roundtable

7:30 AM ­ 9:00 breakfast

9:00 ­ 9:15 Announcements

9:15 ­ 10:30 parallel sessions

o SIG 3; Duality
o SIG 17; General Theories of Systems
o SIG 31; Applied Systems & Development
o SIG 33; What is Life/Living

10:30 ­ 11:00 break

11:00 ­ 11:45 Plenary - Foreground: Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam

12:00 N ­ 1:00 lunch

1:00 ­ 1:30 free time

1:30 ­ 3:00 parallel sessions

o SIG 19; Medical & Health Systems
o SIG 20; Living Systems Analysis
o SIG 29; Evolutionary Learning Community
o SIG 31: Applied Systems & Development

3:00 ­ 3:30 break

3:30 ­ 5:00 parallel sessions

o SIG 1; Business/Industrial Systems
o SIG 20; Living Systems Analysis
o SIG 29;
o Special Topic SIG

5:00 ­ 6:00 Council Meeting

6:00 ­ 8-:00 Banquet ­ President's Speech

 

 

 

July13th ­ Friday

7:15 ­ 8:15 Round Table Wrap Up

7:30 ­ 9:00 breakfast

9:00 ­ 9:30 Plenary ­ New Ground; Student's Report

9:30 ­ 10:30 Membership Meeting

10:30 ­ 11:00 Incoming President's Speech

11:00 ­ 12;00 Plenary ­ Foreground; Yaneer Bar-Yam

12:00 N ­ 1:00 lunch

1:00 ­ 2:30 GERG

2:30 ­ 4:30 Group Self Reflection

4:30 ­ 4:35 End of Conference

Dear ISSS members,

Dr. Len Troncale will be presenting a free workshop July 8th 1:15 - 4:15
titled: "SYSML: Towards a Widely-Available Internet Toll for Systems
Design/Research that Promotes Systems Education and Consensus." Please
contact Dr. Troncale at lrtroncale@intranet.csupomona.edu for more
information or to register.

Dr. Troncale will also be making a progress report on his National Science
Foundation Grant titled "Portable Multimedia Programs for Systems Science as
Distanced Learning General Education at Every University." The grant deals
with using systems science to teach science general education. This will be
schedule in the evenings.

Regards

Harold Nelson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

. The rates for attending one day of the conference
are:

 

students: $55 (membership in ISSS) + $15 (conference proceedings CDROM and
book of abstracts = $70 total

retired: $70 (membership) + $25 (proceedings & abstracts) = $95 total

regular: $85 (membership) + $45 (proceedings & abstracts) = $130 total

 

 

Please Note - Change of Venue 2001 ISSS Conference

The 45th ISSS Annual Meeting and Conference for 2001 host site has been moved to Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The conference dates remain the same. Please check the ISSS web site for detailed and ongoing information at:
www.isss.org

If you have any questions please contact:

Harold Nelson; nelsongroup@worldnet.att.net
Bela A Banathy; babanathy@worldnet.att.net

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