Creative holism: a critical systems approach to complex problem situations

Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers

Drug Switching, a Creative Approach to Leukemia Therapy

Some Difficulties of Ecological Thinking, Considered From a Critical Systems Perspective: A Plea for Critical Holism

We probably have simplified matters too much. We tend to talk about systems thinking and practice as if we knew what they are. The fashionable call for "holistic" or "systems" thinking in ecological issues provides a major example. This much is certain: the quest for comprehensiveness, although it represents an epistemologically necessary idea, is not realizable. If we assume that it is realiza...

Learning to Cope with Critical Situations - an Agent based Approach

How does someone react when he faces a critical situation in his life? In this paper we present an initial initial implementation architecture based on a simulation model described in [10] In our model we mainly consider the interactions between a person concerned and factors like his environment and his own abilities. Using the empolis information access suite, we currently implement our model...

Creative design in safety critical systems

Creative design in safety critical systems is a quite unexplored area of research. Historically, the design of tools, technologies and procedures in such domains has been advocated to engineers and human factors experts who interpreted the development of new concepts mainly as a problem solving activity. For example, one of the most popular methods for technological innovation, TRIZ (Theory of ...