Here we present selected research papers from the project “Human Strategies in Complexity. Philosophical Foundations for a Theory of Evolutionary Systems“ (HSIC).

  • HSIC Paper No. 1: Brunner, Klaus (2002b) What’s Emergent in Emergent Computing? INTAS Project-Internal Report (published in: Robert Trappl (Ed.) (2002) Cybernetics and Systems 2002. Vienna. Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. pp 189-192)

  • HSIC Paper No. 2: Klauninger, Bert (2002) Causality and Emergence. INTAS Project-Internal Report (published in: Robert Trappl (Ed.) (2002) Cybernetics and Systems 2002. Vienna. Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. pp 193-196)

  • HSIC Paper No. 3: Fuchs, Christian (2002) Social Information and Self-Organisation. INTAS Project-Internal Report (published in: Robert Trappl (Ed.) (2002) Cybernetics and Systems 2002. Vienna. Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. pp 225-230).

  • HSIC Paper No. 4: Fuchs, Christian (2002) Concepts of Social Self-Organisation. INTAS Project Report. 68 pages. Vienna. Vienna University of Technology. In: Social Science Research Network eLibrary: http://ssrn.com/abstract=385185

  • Fuchs, Christian (2002) Aspekte der evolutionären Systemtheorie in ökonomischen Krisentheorien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung techniksoziologischer Bezüge [Aspects of Evolutionary Systems Theory in Economic Crises Theories with a Special Sociological Consideration of Technology]. Dissertation thesis (in German). Vienna University of Technology. 311 pages. published as book under the title: Krise und Kritik in der Informationsgesellschaft. Wien/Norderstedt. Libri Books on Demand. See link for more details.

  • HSIC Paper No. 5: Zimmermann, Rainer/Ley, Sabine/Budanov, Vladimir/Voitsekhovich, Vjacheslav (2002) Models and Metaphors. Part I: From the Boundaries of Formalization to the Visualization of the Non-Formalized. In: Los Alamos-arXiv.org e-Print archive. http://arXiv.org/pdf/nlin.AO/0207020/

  • HSIC Paper No. 6: Zimmermann, Rainer/Schlemm, Annette/Zeilinger, Doris/ Budanov, Vladimir/Voitsekhovich, Vjacheslav (2002) Models and Metaphors. Part II: The Aesthetical Conception of Natural Laws. In: Los Alamos-arXiv.org e-Print archive. http://arXiv.org/pdf/nlin.AO/0207019/

  • HSIC Paper No. 7: Brunner, Klaus (2002) Emergent Computing. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme. Diploma Thesis. Vienna University of Technology. 90 pages.

  • HSIC Paper No. 8: Fuchs, Christian/Hofkirchner, Wolfgang/Klauninger, Bert (2002) The Dialectic of Bottom-Up and Top-Down-Emergence in Social Systems. In: Proceedings of the Conference "Problems of Invididual Emergence".
    In: Social Science Research Network eLibrary:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=385185

  • HSIC Paper No. 9: Dobronravova, Irina (2002) "Globalization" and "Sustainable Development" from the Synergetic Point of View (in Ukrainian). Paper presented at the Conference "Man and Culture in the Situation of Globalization", published in the Proceedings of the Conference.

  • HSIC Paper No. 10: Gottfried Stockinger (2002) The Differentia Specifica of the Social Information Process. In: Robert Trappl (Ed.) (2002) Cybernetics and Systems 2002. Vienna. Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies. pp. 185-188.

  • HSIC Paper No. 11: Vyacheslav Stepin (2002) Premises of the Formation of Synergetical Principles in the Context of the Becoming of the Quantum-Relativistic Worldview.

  • HSIC Paper No. 12: Christian Fuchs (2002) The Role of the Individual in the Social Information Process. In: Entropy (http://www.mdpi.org/entropy), Vol. 5 (2003), No. 1. pp. 34-60.

  • Preprint: Christian Fuchs/Annette Schlemm (2003) The Self-Organisation of Society. In: Natur & Ökonomie, Vol. 1 (2003), No. 1 (forthcoming)
    Part 1
    - Part 2 - Part 3

  • HSIC Paper No. 13: Fuchs, Christian (2003) Structuration Theory and Self-Organization. In: Systemic Practice and Action Research, Vol. 16 (2003), No. 2. pp. 133-167

  • HSIC Paper No. 14: Christian Fuchs (2002) Modern Society - A Complex, Evolutionary, Self-Organising, Antagonistic System. In: Social Science Research Network eLibrary:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=385220

  • HSIC Paper No. 15: Christian Fuchs (2003) The Self-Organisation of Politics, Power and the Nation State. In:Social Science Research Network eLibrary:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=385222

  • HSIC Paper No. 16: Christian Fuchs/Annette Schlemm (2002) The Self-Organisation of Society. In: Social Science Research Network eLibrary:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=385284

  • HSIC Paper No. 17: Dobronravova, Irina (2003) The Becoming of Philosophical and Epistemological Foundations for the Methodological Norms in Non-Linear Science.

  • HSIC Paper No. 18: Stepin, Vyacheslav (2003) The Problem of Scientific Revolutions.

  • HSIC Paper No. 19: Stepin, Vyacheslav (2003) Scientific Worldview as an ssential Component of the Foundation of Science.

  • HSIC Paper No. 20: Myelkov, Yuriy (2003) From Explanation to Understanding: The Paradigm Shift in Visioning the Factuality.

  • HSIC Paper No. 21: Belous, Tatyana (2003) The Standard Conceptions of Explanation and Problems of their Applicability in Non-Linear Science.

  • HSIC Paper No. 22: Arshinov, Vladimir/Savicheva, Natalya (2003) Civil Society in the Synergetical Approach (in Russian).

  • HSIC Paper No. 23: Budanov, Vladimir (2003)Cognitive Psychology or Cognitive Physics. The Greatness and Futility of the Events' Language (in Russian).

  • HSIC Paper No. 24: Budanov, Vladimir (2003) The Language of Science or the Science of Language (in Russian).

  • HSIC Paper No. 25: Voitsekhovich, Vyacheslav (2003) Topos Theory as the Language of Description of Evolutionary Systems (in Russian).

  • HSIC Paper No. 26: Zenkin, Alexander A./Zenkin, Anton A. (2003) Cognitive Reality: The Generation of Creative Solutions in Science, Education, and Management (in Russian).

  • HSIC Paper No. 27: Fuchs, Christian (2003) Co-operation and Self-Organization. In: TripleC Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-52.

  • HSIC Paper No. 28: Fuchs, Christian (2003) Globalization and Self-Organization in the Knowledge-Based Society.
    In: TripleC, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 105-169

  • HSIC Paper No. 29: Fuchs, Christian (2003) The Internet as a Self-Organizing Socio-Technological System. In: Social Science Research Network eLibrary
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=458680

  • HSIC Paper No. 30: Myelkov, Yuriy (2003) The Dialectics of Maria Zlotina.

  • HSIC Paper No. 31: Zimmermann, Rainer (2003) The Modeling of Nature as a Glass Bead Game.

  • HSIC Paper No. 32: Hofkirchner, Wolfgang/Fuchs, Christian (2003) The Architecture of the Information Society.
    In: Wilby, Jennifer/Allen, Janet K. (Eds.) (2003) Proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS): Agoras of the Global Village, Iraklion, Crete, July 7th-11th, 2003. ISBN 0-9740735-1-2.