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Research on transdisciplinarity: knowledge representation and conceptual integration

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.

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.

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.