Proceedings of the IFSR Conversation 2012, St. Magdalena, Linz – International Federation for Systems Research

Proceedings of the IFSR Conversations 2012, St. Magdalena, Linz, Austria

Proceedings of the Sixteenth IFSR Conversation
“Systems and Science at Crossroads”SEA-Publications: SEA-SR-32
Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
ISBN 978-3-902457-32-5

Table of Contents

Looking back at St. Magdalena 2012 (G. Metcalf, G. Chroust)	1
List of participants	4
Team 1: Revisiting the Socio-ecological, Social-technical and Socio-psychological Perspectives (Team Report)	5
Expanding Scope of Systemic Innovation and Socio-Ecological and Socio-Technical Perspectives (Minna Takala)	25
Team 2: Science II: Science Too! (Team Report)	31
Team 3: Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: Systemic Leverage – Points for Emerging a Global Eco-Civilization (Team Report)	41
Developing Resilience in Project Teams – A Path to Enabling Organizations for Thrivability (Mary Edson)	66
Team 4: Towards a Common Language for Systems Praxis (Team Report)	75
The Systems Praxis Framework	89
Comparison of Team 4 Position Paper Themes and Concepts (Duane Hybertson)	91
Systems Paradigms and Praxis (Harold ‘Bud’ Lawson)	97
Four Thought Patterns in support of the Systems Approach (James Martin)	99
Obstacles to a Unified Systems Praxis Ontology (Richard Martin)	102
An Empirical Taxonomy of Modeling Approaches (Janet Singer)	107
Appendix: What is the IFSR?	109

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Photos

Some IFSR 2012 Conversation attendees. St. Magdalena, Linz, Austria

The Science II team at work. IFSR Conversations 2012

Team 3 Photo. IFSR Conversations 2012

Team 4 Group Photo, IFSR Conversations 2012

Supplement to the Proceedings of the Sixteenth IFSR Conversation
SEA-Publications: SEA-SR-34
Institute for Systems Engineering and Automation
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
ISBN 978-3-902457-34-9
Table of Contents

Foreword : Supplementary Material (G. Metcalf, G. Chroust)	1
TEAM 3 SUPPLEMENTS	3
Curating the Conditions for a Thrivable Planet: A day-to-day record	3
Convergence for a Commons-Based Economy (J. B. Quilligan)	50
TEAM 4 SUPPLEMENTS	55
Towards a Common Language for Systems Praxis – notes from Team 4 Conversation	55
Paradigms to Promote Thinking and Acting in Terms of Systems (H. Lawson)	68
Integrating Systems Thinking, Systems Science and Systems Engineering (H. Sillitto)	77
Experienced Theory and Praxis of Human Activity (T.Takaku)	90
Common Languages: Natural Languages and Invented Languages (T. Takaku)	101
Development Process Models – A key to process and product quality (G. Chroust)	128

Supplemental to the Proceedings of the IFSR Conversations 2012, St. Magdalena, Linz