Cover Story (view full-size image): Aviation is characterized by many stakeholders, long lifespans, and high requirements for safety, security, and documentation. To meet these as well as customer needs, aircraft are regularly retrofitted with new cabins. During the planning and execution of this cabin retrofit, handling the required data poses a challenge. While many of them are available in some form, there is a lack of a digitally usable dataset of the specific aircraft. To support the overall process of retrofitting aircraft, an approach to model-driven data handling tailored to the unique circumstances of aviation is introduced. It combines systems engineering and data science techniques framed by an iterative procedure that creates and enhances a digitally accessible dataset and eases access to needed information. View this paper
Here’s the link to the ‘journal’ ‘edition’ https://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/11/3
I will link to two articles I’m particularly interested in, but with no guaranteee of quality or quality of review.
My concern – here’s what I posted on a listserver:
While I’m very interested in at least two of these articles (Oshry and Bowen and Sensemaking), the range here and the lack of theme and the dubious qualifications of some of the articles to be about ‘systems’ reinforce my concerns about the journal and about any serious organisations or individuals associating with it and thereby lending it credibility. The lack of editing I have noted in some articles supports this.
It has been named as a predatory journal along with many published by MDPI – MDPI of course strenuously refute this but ‘aggressively rent-seeking’ doesn’t feel like an inappropriate response. Links below including MDPI’s attack.
As a systems community, don’t we have a responsibilty to take this seriously?
The book Ecological Limits to Development: Living with the Sustainable Development Goals, published in 2002 by Routledge, was released as open access in 2023 by Taylor-Francis for readers who don’t have access to a university library.
Developing a Systems Thinking Lens for Collective LeadershipOne of the core components of Collective Leadership is about understanding complexity and the role of systems thinking as we seek to work on complex societal issues. This resource was prepared in partnership with Joan O’Donnell, who undertook an internship with the Collective Leadership for Scotland Team in 2022. It is offered as a guide to systems thinking and how to adopt a systems thinking approach as part of our wider Collective Leadership and Public Policy work.873878_SCT0123759776-001_Collective Leadership Brochure_FINAL
Join us as we commemorate and celebrate the extraordinary life of George Spencer-Brown (1923-2016) on the 100th anniversary of his birth!
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When and where
Sunday, April 2 · 6 – 8pm BST
Please join us on Sunday, April 2nd 2023 for a live commemoration and celebration of George Spencer-Brown. We will be joined by friends who knew Spencer-Brown and who will share brief recollections of his life. We will also be announcing the formation of our society, news about our recent and forthcoming publications, and information about our upcoming conferences.
This event will be open to audiences interested in the life and the work of George Spencer-Brown, and will be made available to a wider public after the event via YouTube.
Spencer-Brown’s 1969 book Laws of Form was a work of pure mathematics that many recognized as being of tremendous spiritual and scientific importance, giving the text a significant metaphysical aura and its author a legendary status that is quite rare today. The biography of Spencer-Brown lives up to the mythology, and we will hear all about that at this event.
Start: 6.00 pm BST (5.00 pm UTC / 1.00 pm EST / 10.00 am PDT)
In this episode Justin Pearl and Matt Baker speak again to Randy Dible about George Spencer Brown’s hugely influential but not widely-known mathematical grimoire Laws of Form, originally published in 1969.
Randy is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at St. Joseph’s University in New York, and a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy, at The New School for Social Research. His work is in ontological phenomenology, history of philosophical ideas, and Ancient Greek philosophy.
[I feel I’ve read – and shared – this before, but it’s only just been posted…]
Pond brains and GPT-4
Gordon Brander
Stafford Beer and Gordon Pask were building a pond that thinks. Their biological computing project set out to build ecosystems with inputs and outputs, that could function as computers…
The four concepts are: (i) interrelationships; (ii) perspectives; (iii) boundaries; and (iv) dynamics.
At 16m36s into the recording, the debate turned to Jackson for a response.
[16m36] Thanks, Barb. I’m concerned with the way in which we use systems thinking in evaluation. I’ll try and pick out some issues that I see with the Systems Concepts approach, which means the use of interrelationships, perspectives, boundaries, and dynamics in evaluation practice.
[17m00s] And to make the case for what I think is the clearer guidance that Critical Systems Practice can give.
[17m09s] A problem with the concepts is that they…
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Apparently complex problems can have very simple solutions
“The following text explains at great length what it is Systemic Consulting and Organisational Constellations methodology: how they function, for what they are used, its practical application and other information.”
Also a selection of resources at http://cecilioregojo.com/talent_manager_1_000012.htm
The tongue plays a fundamental role in several body functions such as swallowing, breathing, speaking, and chewing. Its action is not confined to the oral cavity, but it affects lower limb muscle strength and posture. The tongue is an organ that has an autocrine/paracrine mechanism of action to synthesize different substances to interact with the whole body; according to a line of thought, it is also an extension of the enteric system. The aim of this study was to review the functions of the tongue and its anatomical association with the body system. According to the authors’ knowledge, this is the first scientific article focusing on the tongue in a systemic context. In a clinical evaluation, connections with the tongue should be considered to optimize the clinical examination of the tongue and therefore enhance rehabilitation programs and therapeutic results.
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