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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS : DEADLINE EXTENSION to September 1st, 2010

ALBERTO FEBBRAJO, University of Macerata, Italy

ANDREA PITASI, d'Annunzio University Chieti-Pescara, Italy

DARIO RODRIGUEZ| MANSILLA, Universidad Catolica de Santiago , Chile (Eds.)

-- ESSENTIAL SYSTEM SCIENCE ENCYCLOPAEDIA (ESSE) –

ESSE is under construction and will be structured in about 200 items/entries. Among the key items: system complexity, differentiation, environment, communication, self organization, self reference, structural coupling, constructivism and items referred to key scholars such as Luhmann, von Foerster,von Glasersfeld etc.

Contributors are fee to submit items they consider pivotal to understand System Sciences. deadline to submit the fully written proposed item(s) is September 1st 2010.

Each entry/item would be of about 2500 words. You can choose one or more entries (up to 5 per author) among those listed below and /or choose some from the list and propose other (total 5 entries, anyway).

Each item ,concerning an abstract concept such as "system " or " complexity" should be structured according to the following pattern : a)definition(s) of the item from the perspective of the social system theory

b)etimology

c)translations of the term in the other key languages

d)accurate explanation

f)very key references / essential bibliography while items concerning authors , such as Luhmann or Pask have to be structured as follows:

a) short bio

b) key concepts

c) key works they authored and brief summaries of their contents

d) brief explanation of the author's contribution to system theory

e) key references about the author

ENTRY/ ITEM STARTING LIST: Action, communicative - Action, social - Action system( Crozier-Friedberg)- Action theory - Algorythm(evolutionary)- Alter/ego- Alternative- Asymmetry- Attribution (Heider)- Authority- Autologic- Automation- Automaton- Autonomous (Autonomy)- Autopoiesis-

Bateson Gregory- Binary code- Black box- Blind spot (Maturana)-

Causality- Centrum/periphery- Chaos- Code- Cognition- Communication- Complexity- Complexity gradient- Complexity reduction - Computer- Conflict- Constructivism- Crossing, law of (Spencer Brown)- Coupling (loose & tight) (Heider)- Coupling, structural- Cybernetics(Cybernetics, second order)-

Damage- Danger/risk- Data- Decision- Decision-making- Deconstruction- Deflation- Destructive interaction (Maturana)- Determinacy, structural- Diabolic/symbolic- Difference- Differentiation- Distinction- Double contingency- Double negation- Draw a distinction (Spencer Brown)-

Economy- Education- Ego/Alter- Eigenwert (Hilbert, von Foerster, Luhmann)- Element- Emergence level- Enactment (Varela)- Enlightment (sociological)- Entropy/negentropy- Environment- Epistemology- Event- Evolution- Evolutionary achievement- Exclusion/inclusion- Expectation- Experience/action-

Family- Feedback (negative & positive) (Wiener, Maruyama)- Heinz von Foerster- Form, Laws of (Spencer Brown)- Formal/informal- Function- Functional differentiation- Functional equivalent- Functionalism- Functional method- Future- Fuzzy logic-

Gaia- Game theory- Garbage-can (James March)- Generalization- Ernst von Glasersfeld- Globalization -

Harm- Hierarchie/heterarchie- High Speed Reconfigurational System (HSRS)- Holistic- Horizon- Humanism- Hypercomplexity-

Identity/difference- Improbability (of communication)- Inclusion/exclusion- Incompleteness- Indeterminacy- Indication (Spencer Brown)- Individual- Inflation/deflation- Information- Input/output- Inside/outside Integration Interaction Interdependence Interest Interpenetration Intersubjective Irrationality Irritation

Knowledge

Language Ervin Laszlo Latency Leader Leadership Learning Legal Legislation Legitimacy Legitimate Limit Loose coupling Love Niklas Luhmann

Map/territory Marked/unmarked space Massmedia Meaning Meaning, dimensions of Mechanisms, reflexive Mechanisms, symbiotic Media, symbolic generalized communications Medical system Medium/form (Heider) Membership Memory Method Modernity Money Moral Motivation

National society (National state) Negation Negation, double Negation, reflexive Noise Norm Richard Normann Normative

Object Objectual dimension of meaning Observation Observation, second order Observer Ontology Open systems’ theory Operation Optimization Oral communication Order, social Order from noise Organization Organization theory Output/input Outside/inside

Paradigm Paradigm change Paradox Parasite (Serres) Gordon Pask Passion, love as Past Payment/no payment Peasant society Perception Performance Periphery Person Personality Perspective Perturbation Phenomenon Phenomenology Political system Politics Possibility Postmodernism Power Predictability Preference Premise Prerequisite Present Price Primacy Probability Process/structure Production Property Psychic system

Question

Random Rational Rationality Reality Recursion Recursive Reduction Redundancy Re-entry Reflexion Refusal Regional society Rejection Relationship Religion Research Resonance Responsible Restriction Risk/danger(SEE ABOVE) Role Rule

Scarcity Schema Science Scientific system Selection Selective Selectivity Self Self-description Self-esteem Self-organization Self-production Self-reference/hetero-reference Self-reflexion Social dimension of meaning Social system Society George Spencer Brown Status Steady state Strategy Stratification Stratified society Structural coupling Structural determinism Structural drift (Maturana) Structure/process Subsystem Symbiotic mechanism Symbol System System/environment

Tautology Technology Temporal dimension of meaning Territory/map Thankfulness Theory Thought Tight/loose coupling Time Trigger True Trust

Jakob von Uexkull Unbalance Uncertainty Underdevelopment Understanding Unexpected Unforeseeable Unpredictable Utterance

Value Francisco Varela Variable Variety Verbal Verbalize Violence Virtual

World World society Writing

by sending it/them to the ESSE Editor Andrea Pitasi as Word attachments.

ESSE will appear for the SYSTEM THEORY AND COMPLEXITY BOOK SERIES (Aracne Publishing, Rome) in collaboration with the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA) a newborn organization already featured by a prestigious, international Honoray Board:

Gabriel Altmann, Universitaet Bochum, Germany Dario Rodriguez Mansilla Universidad Catolica de Santiago, Chile Felix Ortega, Universidad de Salamanca , Spain Loet Leydesdorff, Universitaet van Amsterdam, The Netherlands Giovanbattista Cavazzuti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia,Italy Albert Laszlo Barabasi, Notre Dame University, USA Lucio d' Alessandro, Suro Orsola Benincasa University, Naples, Italy Sebastiano Bagnara, Sassari-Alghero University, Italy

Further Info will follow in a second announcement and /or can be required by email to the ESSE EDITORS. Best regards Prof. Andrea Pitasi website: www.andreapitasi.com Facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1347035922&ref=profile

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