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)
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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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- Envisaging the Art of Navigating Conceptual Complexity: in search of software combining artistic and conceptual insights (1995)
- Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems (1994)
- Visualizing Relationship Networks: international, interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral: mapping networks of organization/problem relationships, production of an "Atlas of International Relationship Networks", development of a structural outliner (computer programme), tracking the concept structure of conferences (1992)
- Ordering the Undefinable: identifying meaningful patterns of "world problems" (1989)
- Atlas of International Relationship Network: review of the problems of mapping networks of organization/problem relationship in order to produce an "Atlas" as a complement to the Yearbook of International Organizations and to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1987)
- Forms of presentation and the future of comprehension (1984)
- The Territory Construed as a Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1984)
- Minding the Future: a thought experiment on presenting new information (1980)
- Needs Communication: viable needs patterns and their identification (1980)
- The Territory Construed as a Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1979)
- Report of the Forms of Presentation (1979)
- Mapping Possibilities in Response to Information Needs of Science Policy-making for Development (1978)
- De la Difficulté de Saisir la Problématique Mondiale (1978)
- Knowledge-Representation in a Computer-Supported Environment (1977)
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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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- UIA Software Concerns (1993)
- Catalyzation of New Patterns of Collaboration using a PC-based Structural Outliner as an Imaging Scaffold: project proposal to the Collaborative Studies Competition of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (1992)
- Functional Classification (1984)
- INTERCONTACT: an on-line information system on international organizations and conferences (1981)
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