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Autopoiesis: The Organization of Living Systems, Its Characterization and a Model
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Notwithstanding their diversity, all living systems must share a common organization which the authors implicitly recognize calling them “living,” but there is no formulation of this organization, mainly because the great developments of molecular, genetic and evolutionary notions in contemporary biology have led to the overemphasis of isolated components.Abstract:
Notwithstanding their diversity, all living systems must share a common organization which we implicitly recognize calling them “living.” At present there is no formulation of this organization, mainly because the great developments of molecular, genetic and evolutionary notions in contemporary biology have led to the overemphasis of isolated components, e.g., to consider reproduction as a necessary feature of the living organization and, hence, not to ask about the organization which makes a living system a whole, autonomous unity that is alive regardless of whether it reproduces or not. As a result, processes that are history dependent (evolution, ontogenesis) and history independent (individual organization) have been confused in the attempt to provide a single mechanistic explanation for phenomena which, although related, are fundamentally distinct.read more
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Transition management for sustainable development: A prescriptive, complexity-based governance framework
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce transition management as a new governance approach for sustainable development, which is used here as a common notion referring to those persistent problems in (western industrialized) societies that can only be dealt with on the very long term through specific types of network and decision-making processes.
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The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Fritjof Capra,Pier Luigi Luisi +1 more
TL;DR: A broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, the authors examine the appearance of key concepts such as autopoiesis, dissipative structures, social networks, and a systemic understanding of evolution.
Peer-to-Peer Computing
Dejan Milojicic,Vana Kalogeraki,Rajan Lukose,Kiran Nagaraja,Jim Pruyne,Bruno Richard,Sami Rollins,Zhichen Xu +7 more
TL;DR: This survey reviews the field of P2P systems and applications by summarizing the key concepts and giving an overview of the most important systems, and is intended for users, developers, and information technologies maintaining systems.
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Autopoiesis, adaptivity, teleology, agency
TL;DR: In this article, a proposal for the biological grounding of intrinsic teleology and sense-making through the theory of autopoiesis is critically evaluated, and adaptivity is introduced, a many-layered property that allows organisms to regulate themselves with respect to their conditions of viability.
Book
Architecture of Systems Problem Solving
George J. Klir,Doug Elias +1 more
TL;DR: The aim of this monograph is to clarify the role of mathematics and computer technology in the development of systems science and to provide some examples of how these roles have changed in recent years.
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Sidney W. Fox,Sidney W. Fox +1 more
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