Research on transdisciplinarity: knowledge representation and conceptual integration

The challenge for the international community to provide some form of conceptual integration across disciplinary and cultural boundaries has resulted in a continuing series of studies on integrative approaches, interdisciplinarity and configurations of insights.

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Definitional Boundary Games and De-Signing the 21st Century (1995)
Strategic Correspondences: computer-aided insight scaffolding (1995)
Clarification of a Mathematical Challenge for Systems Science (1995)
Transdisciplinarity-3 as the Emergence of Patterned Experience: transcending duality as the conceptual equivalent of learning to walk (1994)
Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systematic Patterns of Environmental Checks and Balances (1994)
La métaphore: une ressource mal-explorée pour l'éco-développement viable (1993)
La transdisciplinarité et les volumes: l'articulation des relations entre les disciplines à l'aide des propriétés des polyèdres (1992)
Patterns of Conceptual Integration (1984)
Higher Orders of Inter-Sectoral "Consensus": clarification of formal possibilities: methodology (1992)
Geometry of Organizations, Policies and Programmes (1992)
Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Configuration (1992)
Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues: inter-sectoral Dialogue (Rio de Janeiro, 1-2 June 1992) (1992)
Higher Orders of Inter-Sectoral "Consensus": clarification of formal possibilities (1991)
Review of Frameworks for the Representation of Alternate Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Cultural and Linguistic Contexts (1986)
Alternation between Variable Geometries: a brokership style for the United Nations as a guarantee of requisite variety (1985)
Patterns of Conceptual Integration (1984)
A 5-fold Pattern Language (1984)
Liberation of integration: pattern, oscillation, harmony and embodiment (1984)
Integrative Dimensions of Concept Sets: transformation with minimal distortion between implicitness and explicitness of set representations according to constraints on communicability (1981)
Presentation of GPID Integration Through Functional Classification of International Organizations (1980)
Concept Factors in Concept Scheme Integration: GPIO as a case study (1980)
Notes on Vector Equilibrium (1980)
Patterns of N-foldness: comparison of integrated multi-set concept schemes as forms of presentation (1980)
Representation, Comprehension and Communication of Sets: the role of number (1980)
Integrative Dimensions of Concept Sets: transformations with minimal distortion between implicitness and explicitness of set representation according to constraints on communicability (1980)

Visualization and presentation of information

In the light of the increasing need to communicate more complex and dynamic insights, studies continue to be made of ways of presenting information in a more comprehensible manner. These investigations are currently extending into the use of network maps and metaphors and patterns.

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Information systems

Because of the intimate relationships between organizational networks and the information systems which they develop or on which they depend, a number of studies have been made of the problems associated with emerging information systems and their implications for organizations.

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