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James Martin

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Sep 21, 2018, 2:40:58 PM9/21/18
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Dear Readers,

We are pleased to announce the publication of the following issue of Systems:

Systems, Volume 6, Issue 3 (September 2018)

Table of Contents

Special Issue Systems Thinking

Article: A Systematic Framework for Exploring Worldviews and Its Generalization as a Multi-Purpose Inquiry Framework
by David Rousseau and Julie Billingham
Systems 2018, 6(3), 27; doi:10.3390/systems6030027

Case Report: Systems Thinking Education—Seeing the Forest through the Trees
by Sigal Koral Kordova, Moti Frank and Anat Nissel Miller
Systems 2018, 6(3), 29; doi:10.3390/systems6030029

Article: Systemic Semantics: A Systems Approach to Building Ontologies and Concept Maps
by David Rousseau, Julie Billingham and Javier Calvo-Amodio
Systems 2018, 6(3), 32; doi:10.3390/systems6030032

Special Issue Modelling of Economic Systems

Article: Nonlinear Phenomena in Cournot Duopoly Model
by Pavel Pražák and Jaroslav Kovárník
Systems 2018, 6(3), 30; doi:10.3390/systems6030030


Special Issue Systems Thinking: Concepts, Issues, and Applications in Large Complex Systems

Article: An Integrated Participatory Systems Modelling Approach: Application to Construction Innovation
by Emiliya Suprun, Oz Sahin, Rodney Anthony Stewart, Kriengsak Panuwatwanich and Yaroslav Shcherbachenko
Systems 2018, 6(3), 33; doi:10.3390/systems6030033

Article: Applying Systems Thinking to Engineering and Design
by Jamie P. Monat and Thomas F. Gannon
Systems 2018, 6(3), 34; doi:10.3390/systems6030034


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Systems Thinking: Concepts, Issues, and Applications in Large Complex Systems
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Model-Based Systems Engineering
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A Systems Approach to Sustainability within Agenda 2030 and across SDGs
(Deadline: 28 February 2019)

Reliability and Maintenance Scheduling: Methods, Theory and applications
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Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation
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Ken Lloyd

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Sep 21, 2018, 9:07:43 PM9/21/18
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James,

 

In re: Rousseau’s Systemic Semantics (Systemic Semantics: A Systems Approach to Building Ontologies and Concept Maps)  in developing an ontology for systems engineering and science, there has been a historical problem inherent in over-reliance on the “systems thinking” approach. This problem, identified by Rousseau’s “confusion” characterization relates to vast differences between an individual “authority” as an expert and the dispersion of concepts in a groups > 7 (i.e. the INCOSE Fellows attempts at the definition of a system). We found similar dispersion in working with a BFO implementation WRT experts.

 

One promising solution may be to apply OpenAI Five (or something similar, such as ES-HyperNEAT) in NLP to relate and refine concepts in linguistic terms (the conceptual encoding is not directly language driven, but offers indirect representations to languages). The general strategy is to use competitive co-evolution between the machine’s knowledge base (encoded as a meta-neural network that generates other neural networks in various contexts) and the diverse human knowledge bases. The result can be empirically compared with alternative strategies. Furthermore, a meta-ontology may be developed. This strategy is well known and (for AI and NLP at least) reasonably mature. For example, see https://blog.openai.com/openai-five/ in relation to the game Dota.

 

K A Lloyd

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Aleksandar Malečić

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"The overall purpose of the ISSS is to promote the development of conceptual frameworks based on general system theory, as well as their implementation in practice. It further seeks to encourage research and facilitate communication between and among scientists and professionals from various disciplines and professions at local, regional, national, and international levels."- http://isss.org/world/administration/bylaws

Is that article by Rousseau et al. (and other articles from the same publication) and Ken Lloyd's comment facilitating communication between and among scientists and professionals from various disciplines and professions at local, regional, national, and international levels?

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