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ISSN: 1690-4524 (Online)


Peer Reviewed Journal via three different mandatory reviewing processes, since 2006, and, from September 2020, a fourth mandatory peer-editing has been added.

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William Lesso (1931-2015)

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Nagib C. Callaos


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Utilization of Artificial Intelligence by Students in Interdisciplinary Field of Biomedical Engineering
Shigehiro Hashimoto
(pages: 1-5)

Transdisciplinary Applications of Data Visualization and Data Mining Techniques as Represented for Human Diseases
Richard S. Segall
(pages: 6-15)

Beyond Status Quo: Why is Transdisciplinary Communication Instrumental in Innovation?
James Lipuma, Cristo Leon
(pages: 16-20)

How We Can Locate Validatable Foundations of Life Themes
Jeremy Horne
(pages: 21-32)

Bringing Discipline into Transdisciplinary Communications -The ISO 56000 Family of Innovation Standards-
Rick Fernandez, William Swart
(pages: 33-39)

To AI Is Human: How AI Tools with Their Imperfections Enhance Learning
Martin Cwiakala
(pages: 40-46)

Knowledge, Learning and Transdisciplinary Communication in the Evolution of the Contemporary World
Rita Micarelli, Giorgio Pizziolo
(pages: 47-52)

Human Complexity vs. Machine Linearity: Tug-of-War Between Two Realities Coexisting in Precarious Balance
Paolo Barile, Clara Bassano, Paolo Piciocchi
(pages: 53-62)

A Cybernetic Metric Approach to Course Preparation
Russell Jay Hendel
(pages: 63-70)

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Education
John Jenq
(pages: 71-76)

Bridging the Gap: Harnessing the Power of Machine Learning and Big Data for Media Research
Li-jing Arthur Chang
(pages: 77-84)

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Data Visualization, and Data Mining for Transdisciplinary Visual Communication: What Are the Differences and Which Should or Could You Use?
Richard S. Segall
(pages: 85-92)

Identification – The Essence of Education
Jeremy Horne
(pages: 93-99)

The Greek-Roman Theatre in the Mediterranean Area
Maria Rosaria D’acierno Canonici Cammino
(pages: 100-108)

Examination of AI and Conventional Teaching Approaches in Cultivating Critical Thinking Skills in High School Students
Luis Castillo
(pages: 109-112)

Thoughts, Labyrinths, and Torii
Maurício Vieira Kritz
(pages: 113-119)

Can Two Human Intelligences (HIs or Noes) and Two Artificial Intelligences (AIs) Get Involved in Interlinguistic Communication? – A Transdisciplinary Quest
Ekaterini Nikolarea
(pages: 120-128)


 

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Toward A Practical General Systems Methodological Theory

Nagib Callaos, Belkis Sánchez de Callaos


Our main purpose in this paper is to describe the way in which we have been relating General System Theory (GST) to practice and to the design of a General Systems Methodology (GSM). Our first step was to apply GST to design a methodology for software development. Then, in a second step, by means of the experience/knowledge learned from applying the methodology to developing specific information systems, a continuous designing and re-designing process started, which simultaneously generalized the methodology and increased its complexity adding new methodical modules for an increasing diversity tasks needed for different specific systems and/or situations. The methodological kernel increased it generality and the sub-methodological modules increased in specificity and details. The methodological intersection of special methodologies increased its generality, because it its commonalities to a higher methodological diversity, and the union set of methodologies included more special methodologies for systems of different nature and for a higher diversity of situations, or environmental conditions. This paved the way for a General Systems Methodology which, because it includes cognitive/thinking methodological perspective it might take us back to the theoretical realm, i.e. to a methodological theory which, in turn, would pave the way to theoretical methodology. In this way Theory and methodologies would interact with each other in cybernetic loops, including negative and positive reciprocal feedback, as well as reciprocal feedforward.

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