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DESCRIPTION, EXPLANATION AND PREDICTION IN NONLINEAR STUDIES Objective: To identify the norms guiding scientific research in evolutionary systems as to the relationships between theoretical and empirical knowledge and between fundamental and applied sciences; to relate explanation and understanding as two instances of one methodology; to redefine forecasting vis-·-vis the restrictions due to the occurrence of emergent events; to clarify the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character of this new methodology Schedule: months 13-24 Teams: Responsibility: Kiev Expected results: An integration of the concepts of description, explanation and prediction, laid down in articles |