This concept paper aims to explain the challenges of social protection systematisation, drawing on global lessons in order to strengthen EU Development Cooperation’s support for inclusive, nationally owned, and sustainable social protection policies and programmes within partner countries. In...

1 Creating Social Systems (Gary S. Metcalf) -- 2 An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA (Alexander N. Christakis) -- 3 Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971–1973 (Raul Espejo) -- 4 Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social...

In der Dissertation wird ein Spezifikationsrahmen dargestellt, mit dem sich die Au?ensicht von (Software-) Komponenten in einer normierten und vollst?ndigen Weise beschreiben l?sst. Dazu werden verschiedene methodische Vorgaben geschaffen, mit denen sich die f?r die betriebliche...

Researching the design and usage of complex socio-technical systems as for instancevirtual communities is especially challenging. Such research subject can often hardly bereduced for meaningful study. Virtual communities, consisting of a (social) context thatinteracts with information...