The future of the social sciences and humanities in the science of complex systems

Johnson, Jeffrey

doi:10.1080/13511610.2010.518422

Cited by 28 publications

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“…This micro-meso-macro approach has already been studied in other fields, such as Evolutionary Economics [1], Complex Systems [2], or Organic Computing [3]. All these approaches identify the meso level as the level that acts as a bridge between the other two levels, accounting for systems dynamics and being responsible of changes in agents' behaviours and the relationships among them.…”

Section: Micro-meso-macro Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Micro-Meso-Macro Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems

Sanderson

Busquets

Pitt

2012

2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops

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Despite all the technological advances in the automotive industry and the high instrumentation of road infrastructures, driving a vehicle is still a stressful and polluting operation. In order to achieve a more sustainable use of vehicles, in this paper we propose a three-layered (micromeso-macro) framework that provides intelligence at different levels of detail of the driving experience. At the micro level, intelligence is provided to the individual vehicle; at the meso level, intelligence is concerned with local clusters of vehicles and group decision making; and at the macro level, intelligence is provided so that system-wide goals are achieved. We illustrate each of these levels with a particular implementation, although alternative implementations may be used as well. Namely, we use an affective anticipatory architecture for the micro level, a consensus algorithm at the meso level, and a resource allocation mechanism together with electronic institutions for the macro level. We believe that the combination of intelligences at each of the levels may lead to a more efficient and sustainable use of the vehicles and the infrastructure.

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Section: Micro-meso-macro Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Micro-Meso-Macro Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems

Sanderson

Busquets

Pitt

2012

2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops

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“…The humanities and the social sciences are said to have a crucial role to play in the creative economy moving away from a single focus on hard sciences such as engineering and technology (Peters and Besley 2009). In the same vein, it has been stated that knowledge from the humanities is expected to contribute with knowledge in closer collaboration with the technical field (Johnson 2010). Furthermore, the Danish educational think tank DEA, part of the Danish Society for Education and Business, points to a potential for academics from the humanities and social sciences to contribute to the economic development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Denmark by adding new knowledge and competencies to this kind of business (DEA 2007); however, exactly how is yet to be explored.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the quote, the humanistic academic points such knowledge communication as difficult due to the knowledge not being adaptable to the ERP, which holds the humanistic knowledge back from being communicated in knowledge interaction. From the point of view of humanistic knowledge holding a knowledge creating potential in combination with the technical field (Johnson 2010), a such knowledge communication may pave the way to scaffold new knowings or practices combining the humanities education with, for example, ERP practice.…”

Section: The Humanistic Part Of Scaffolding Knowing About the Erpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating Humanistic Knowledge - Knowing the Knowing?

Christensen

2018

Jour Of Org Know Com

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In both knowledge communication and practice theory, knowledge theorizing has received increased attention. However, the concept of knowledge needs further exploration. It has been claimed that knowledge in organizational practice is socially and processually created among organization members in communities of practice (CoPs) as a place for knowledge creation and knowledge communication. Following this outline, the study seeks to link the knowledge concepts from organizational knowledge communication and practice theory. As empirical contributions for expansion of this knowledge theorizing have been called for, the current paper conducts a case study to scrutinize if and how organization members with different educational backgrounds communicate knowledge in CoPs. The case is an IT software company employing a humanistic academic and mainly IT professionals. The case organization has real-world relevance, since humanistic graduates currently suffer from high unemployment rates. The study finds that no attempts are made to communicate knowledge from the humanistic education. Rather, the humanistic academic is socialized into a practice through a commitment to learn the existing practice of the HR department, which further seems to be a practice placed in a lower hierarchy than the practice of the IT professionals. Interestingly though, knowledge from the humanistic education is called for by the IT professionals. These findings pave the way to inform both knowledge theorizing and the real-world problem by discussing how organization members engage in fundamentally new knowledge communication and scaffold new knowing. Thus, the study discusses implications related to how organization members come to know their own knowing and the knowings of others.

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“…The idea of complexity (in a way, similar to the idea of Latour) provides a very promising description mode. This idea is not new in the sense that it has been developed for many years, but also because there have been a number of attempts to use it within the social sciences, and even the humanities [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The special place take reflection which tries to combine the three issues: complexity, social science, and information [17,18].…”

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confidence: 99%

The Analysis of the Internet Development Based on the Complex Model of the Discursive Space

Maciąg

2018

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This paper aims to present a new way of understanding and elaborating the current state of reality which has a substantial dependency on technology. An example of such a relatively mature technology is the Internet. The discursive space (DS) is a proposed new cognitive tool, which can be used for this purpose. DS is constructed based on the idea of the discourse and the idea of the configuration space, state space, phase space, and space-time, etc. Discourse is understood as the representation/creation of reality, which means that it can also be understood as a carrier of knowledge. The configuration space, etc., is a tool elaborated in the field of physics for describing complex phenomena. DS is a tool for acquiring knowledge analogous to formal information processes, but is based on another interpretation of the existence of knowledge. This interpretation sees knowledge as a social construction and not as an independent entity, which can be described by rigorous formal procedure. The necessity of such tools comes inter alia from management, particularly from humanistic management, where it can describe the Internet as a dynamic and complex environment for organizations that understand it as a basic unit of the social space of reality.

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The future of the social sciences and humanities in the science of complex systems

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

A Micro-Meso-Macro Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems

A Micro-Meso-Macro Approach to Intelligent Transportation Systems

Communicating Humanistic Knowledge - Knowing the Knowing?

The Analysis of the Internet Development Based on the Complex Model of the Discursive Space

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