DRAFT - June 22, 2001 - DRAFT
45th Annual Conference
ISSS
Workshops
Mihajlo Mesarovic: Global Issues and Sustainability: Critical
Thinking/Problem Solving Approach.
Len Troncale: Towards a Widely-Available Internet Tool for
Systems
Design/Research that Promotes Systems Education and Consensus.
Tutorials
James R. Simms: Fundamental Systems Science Principles
"Grounded" Sub-themes
Background
History & Traditions ­ Ancestors
Len Troncale: In Memory of Biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy:
Historical
Prspectives for ISSS Self-Reflection.
Deborah Hammond: Exploring the Genealogy of Systems Thinking
Ken Bausch:Tap Root and Some Major Branches
Foreground
Service to Humanity
Len Duhl: Systems and Services.
Harold Nelson (President's Address): Being in Service: Lip
Service? Room
Service? Self Service? Military Service? Social Service? Full
Service?
Wes Jackson: More on the Boundary Problem for System Thinkers.
Critical Issues
Yaneer Bar-Yam: Understanding Complex Social Systems: The
Medical System
Crisis and its Solution.
AGORA: The AGORA Project
Special Symposium
Norma Romm (chair): Responsibilities of Systems Thinking
Common Ground
Shared interests & intentions - Common knowledge - Culture
- Context
Hilda Blanco: The Map of Science; A Proposal for a Collaboratory
of
Multiple Linked Centers.
Bela H. Banathy : Self-Guided Evolution of Society: The
challenge; The
Self-Guided Evolution of ISSS.
Bela H. Banathy & Patrick Jenlink: Searching Together:
The Application of
Dialogue Conversation in Intentional Collective Communication.
Sue Gabriel: The "Roundtable".
Ken Bausch : ISSS Self Reflection
ASC: Pille Bunnell: The American Society for Cybernetics
ISCE, Ken Baskin: The Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence
Home Ground
Special Integration Group (SIG)
Edna Zalmenson (chair): Business/Industrial Systems Applications (1)
Jennifer Wilby (chair): Hierarchy Theory (2)
Vitaly Dubrovsky (chair): Duality Theory (3)
Systems Philosophy and Systems Ethics (4)
Russ Kick (chair): Informatics and Communication Systems (6)
Curt McNamara (chair): Futurism and Systems Change (8)
Systems Approaches to Intelligence (14)
Bela A. Banathy and Roberto Kampfner (chairs): Information
Systems Design
and Information Technology (16)
Harald Yndestad (chair): Research Toward General Theories of Systems (17)
Vadim Kvitash (chair): Medical and Health Systems (19)
James R. Simms (chair): Living Systems Analysis (20)
Patrick Jenlink (chair): Designing Educational Systems (21)
Charles Smith (chair): Spirituality and Systems (23)
Arne Collen (chair): Human Systems Inquiry (24)
Alexander and Kathia Laszlo (chair): Evolutionary Learning Community (29)
Jennifer Wilby (chair): Applied Systems and Development (31)
The Ecosystems Approach (32)
John Kineman (chair): What is Life/Living (33)
Anne Nelson (chair): Women and Children in Community Systems (34)
Special topics group
Roberto Kampfner (chair): Foundations of Information Science
New Ground
Next steps ­ Next generation ­ Future Generations
Student's: A Report; The Relevance of Systems Thinking Now and in the Future
Michael Jackson: Incoming President's Address: Systems Thinking:
Managing
Complexity and Change
July 8th ­ Sunday
12:00 N ­ 5:45 PM Conference Registration
1:15 ­ 4:15 Workshop #1
Dr. Mihajlo Mesarovic;
Global Issues and Sustainability: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
Approach
Workshop #2
Dr. Len Troncale;
Towards a Widely-Available Internet Tool for Systems Design/Research
that
Promotes Systems Education and Consensus.
6:00 ­ 7:00 Dinner
7:07 Sunset
7:30 ­ 10:00 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;
Systems and Services
10:30 ­ 10:45 break
10:45 ­ 11:45 Keynote: Dr. Wes Jackson;
More on the Boundary Problem
for System Thinkers
12:00 N ­ 1:00 Lunch
1:15 ­ 2:45 Plenary ­ Background;
Dr. Debora Hammond; Exploring the Genealogy of SystemsThinking
Plenary - Background; Dr. Ken Bausch;
Tap Root and Some Major Branches
2:45 ­ 3:30 break
3:30 ­ 4:15 Plenary ­ Common Ground;
Dr. B. H. Banathy & Dr. Patrick Jenlink; Searching Together:
The
Application of Dialogue Conversation in Intentional Collective
Communication
4:15 ­ 5:00 Foreground­ 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 ­ 9:00 Muriel Adcock; Jamie Lerner Video
Distributed Site
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;
Dr. Len Troncale
In Memory of Biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy: Historical Prspectives
for
ISSS Self-Reflection.
10:00 ­ 10:15 break
10:15 ­ 11:00 Plenary ­ Common Ground;
Dr. Hilda Blanco
The Map of Science; A Proposal for a
Collaboratory of Multiple Linked Centers
11:00 ­ 11:45 Plenary ­ Common Ground;
Dr. B. H. Banathy
Self-Guided Evolution of Society: The
challenge; The Self-Guided Evolution of ISSS
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, Information Systems Design
o SIG 21, Designing Education Syst.
o SIG 1; Business/Industrial Systems
o
5:00 ­ 6:00 Trustee Meeting
Tutorial: Dr. James R. Simms; Fundamental Systems Science Principles
6:00 ­ 7:00 dinner
7:05 Sunset
7::30 ­ 9:00 Distributed Site
July 11th ­ Wednesday
7:15 ­ 8:15 Morning Roundtable
7:30 AM ­ 9:00 breakfast
9:00 ­ 9:15 Announcement
9:15 ­ 10:00 Vicker's Award ­ Student Presentation
10:00 ­ 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 Video; The Future of Humanity ­
Krishnamurti and Bohm
o SIG 16; Info Systems Design
o SIG 24; Human Systems Inquiry
o Special Symposium: Foundations of
Information Science
3:00 ­ 3:30 break
3:30 ­ 5:00 parallel sessions
o SIG 1; Business/Industrial Systems
o SIG 6; Informatics & Communication
o SIG 23; Spirituality and Systems
o SIG 24; Human Systems Inquiry
5:00 ­ 6:00 Board Meeting/Self Organized Meetings
6:00 ­ 7:00 dinner
7:04 Sun Down
7:30 ­ 9:00 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;
Understanding Complex Social Systems:
The Medical System Crisis and its Solution.
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; Evolutionary Learning Community
o Special Symposium: Responsibilities of
Systems Thinking
5:00 ­ 6:00 Council Meeting
6:00 ­ 8-:00 Banquet ­ President's Speech:
Dr. Harold G. Nelson
Being in Service: Lip Service? Room
Service? Self Service? Military Service?
Social Service? Full Service?
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 ­ 10:00 Incoming President's Speech:
Dr. M. C. Jackson;
Systems Thinking:Managing
Complexity and Change
10:00 ­ 10:30 break
10:30­ 11:00 11:00 ­ 12;00 Membership Meeting
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