The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society. Papers deal with the interdisciplinary study of processes of changing related to a wide variety of specific disciplinary aspects. Classical attempts to deal with them, based on generalising approaches used to study the movement of bodies and environmental influence, have included ineffective reductionistic simplifications. Indeed changing also relates, for instance, to processes of acquisition and varying properties such as for software; growing and aging biological systems; learning/cognitive systems; and socio-economic systems growing and developing through innovations. Some approaches to modelling such processes are based on considering changes in structure, e.g., phase-transitions. Other approaches are based on considering (1) periodic changes in structure as for processes of self-organisation; (2) non-periodic but coherent changes in structure, as for processes of emergence; (3) the quantum level of description. Papers in the book study the problem considering its transdisciplinary nature, i.e., systemic properties studied per se and not within specific disciplinary contexts. The aim of these studies is to outline a transdisciplinary theory of change in systemic properties. Such a theory should have simultaneous, corresponding and eventually hierarchical disciplinary aspects as expected for a general theory of emergence. Within this transdisciplinary context, specific disciplinary research activities and results are assumed to be mutually represented as within a philosophical and conceptual framework based on the theoretical centrality of the observer and conceptual non-separability of context and observer, related to logically open systems and Quantum Entanglement. Contributions deal with such issues in interdisciplinary ways considering theoretical aspects and applications from Physics, Cognitive Science, Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Economics, Architecture, Philosophy, Music and Social Systems. Sample Chapter(s) Approaches to the Origin of Life on Earth (178 KB) Contents:Self-Organization, Chaos, Complexity, Collective BehaviorTheories of ChangeLearning as a Process of Changing and Induction of Systems ThinkingChange in Artificial VisionProcesses of Change in Economics and Management. Theories and ApplicationsArchitecture and Design as the Design of Contexts for Inducing Processes of Change in Social SystemsTheories of Change in Cognitive ScienceChange in Social Systems Readership: Graduate students, researchers, academics in nonlinear science, modeling, simulations, and computations. Keywords:Change;Complexity;Computation;Emergence;Model;Property;Simulation;TheoryKey Features:Deals with complexity from different disciplinary problems in a unified wayPresent an interdisciplinary overview on disciplinary nonlinear issuesIntroduces updated approaches to deal with complexity
while the correlation between metacognition and different levels of severity of
psychopathology was already being evaluated, there is little research activity on
the possible correlation between cognitive and metacognitive functions. In
particular, actual research findings showed a direct correlation between
metacognitive executive functions and memory abilities in both the short and long
term memory tasks, verbal and visual (Greig et al., 2004 [21]; Langdon et al.,
2001, 2002 [34,35]), ...
This book is devoted to the investigation of the main issues related to the sustainable realization of tele-laboratories, where real and virtual instrumentation can be shared and used in a collaborative environment. The book contains peer reviewed chapters and each presents a self-contained treatment within a framework providing an up-to-date picture of the state-of-the-art and of the most recent developments of this multi-faceted topic.
In this paper we describe the Italian online learning project, called Teledoc2,
financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)
and realized by CNIT (National InterUniversity Consortium for
Telecommunications) The Project is running through 2003-2005 and aims to
build a complete, multimedia, interactive and fully-featured online-learning
service for ICT researchers and PhD students of Italian Research Centres, being
branches of CNIT. The paper gives ...
"This book discusses the application of complex theories in information and communication technology, with a focus on the interaction between living systems and information technologies, providing researchers, scholars, and IT professionals with a fundamental resource on such topics as virtual reality; fuzzy logic systems; and complexity science in artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, neural networks, and 3-D modeling"--Provided by publisher.
The Complex Coevolution of Information Technology Ecosystems Orsucci,
Franco F. ... di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Switzerland ABSTRACT
Modern telecommunication networks are becoming increasingly complex and
dynamic.
