Facilitation as Midwifery: Facilitation and Praxis in Group Learning

This paper is an inquiry into practice for the purpose of reflection and theory proposal. We discuss the way in which we, as facilitators of action research/learning groups in diverse contexts, confront the challenge of assisting people to work and learn together in authentically collaborative ways. We each describe our very different respective practice examples (Eileen's based on productive and defensive routines; Judith's on sociodramatic exploration) and then collectively discern some substantial similarities in the way that we work. We have likened these similarities to the midwifery process, i.e., "colaboring" or facilitating the birth of whole and healthy group process in which honest and bilateral interactions of action and reflection occur. Finally, we present a meta-reflective account of the way that we have confronted the challenges of working together to write this article. We present this account as a model of a series of five deepening levels of challenge in collaborative learning. These levels reflect the challenge associated with a growth in awareness of both our own process of working together, and that of every other group with which we work.     

从系统论看可持续发展理论

可持续发展观包含着丰富的系统思想 ,从系统论的角度分析了可持续发展理论 ,揭示了可持续发展观的系统本质     

关于系统论在高等学校管理中应用的若干思考

探讨了系统理论的整体性原则、协调性原则、层次性原则在高等学校管理中的若干应用.     

从系统论看面向对象设计方法

面向对象设计方法是现代软件设计主流思想,其蕴涵着系统论的整体性和普遍联系的基本思想。它的最基本元素也是系统论最小、最简单的子系统。在认知上,面向对象设计和系统论都是对事物的模型化、抽象化。     

模糊系统论

本文从讨论系统观出发,给出了一般模糊系统的形式定义和表示方法,全面讨论了模糊系统的静态结构、动态行为、学习机制、数字特征及问题求解过程等问题。论文还讨论了这种模糊系统的表示能力问题,证明了诸如逻辑电路系统、Petri网、H网、各种数据驱动的系统、用流程图表示的程序系统等都是这种系统的特例。论文提出的模糊系统及其“浸润式”执行机制为新型计算机系统的设计提供了一种新模式。一个物理的模糊系统可用一个由大量微处理器构成的互联网络来实现。为此,论文提出了一些具体实现这种系统的设想以及在已有计算机上进行模拟的具体设计。     

The Learning Control and Learning Adaptive Control of General Nonlinear Systems：MIMO Case

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Toward a Buddhist Systems Methodology 1: Comparisons between Buddhism and Systems Theory

This paper compares some key concepts from Buddhism with ideas from different traditions of systems thinking. There appear to be many similarities, suggesting that there is significant potential for dialogue and mutual learning. The similarities also indicate that it may be possible to develop a Buddhist systems methodology to help guide exploration and change within Buddhist organisations.

系统论与农业现代化模式

中国农业现代化模式的选择问题是关系到国民经济发展的大问题。列举 了比较成熟的两种农业现代化模式、并针对我国的情况进行了分析,认为 走生态农业的道路是比较理想的选择。     

Ethical Problem Solving and Systems Theory: The Complexity Connection

No matter what the present success in straightening out difficulties and harmonizing conflicts, it is certain that problems will recur in the future in a new form or on a different plane. Indeed, every genuine accomplishment instead of winding up an affair and enclosing it as a jewel in a casket for future contemplation complicates the practical situation. . . . From the side of what has gone before the achievement settles something. From the side of what comes after, it complicates, introducing new problems, unsettling factors. (John Dewey)     

Toward Fostering Systems Learning in Organizational Contexts

This article explores the ways in which the process of systems learning can be nurtured in organizational contexts. I posit that in order to mobilize systems learning at the individual, group, and organizational levels, an integrated, holistic approach must be pursued. It is suggested that the challenge of not only teaching the systems thinking concepts but also using their actual applications in practice is more than just an issue of pedagogical improvement. The cultural and material issues integral to the use of systems thinking must be taken into consideration as well. I argue that our efforts to improve our pedagogical practices to foster systems learning in organizational contexts can benefit from the social constructivist perspective, which represents a system of ideas about learning. The qualities of systems pedagogy resided in social constructivism are proposed as a framework to think with in designing the meaningful systems learning activities. This article also discusses how to create the cultural and material environments in which the process of systems learning can be nurtured.     

俄罗斯系统理论研究

俄罗斯国内的系统理论研究有着不可忽视的历史地位,是推动世界范围内系统理论发展的一股重要力量,然而却没有得到我国学术界足够的重视。本文通过对原始材料的梳理,分析得出俄罗斯系统理论研究的思想发端,发展潮流中主要代表人物及其思想,最新动向等等,以期能起到抛砖引玉的作用。     

Networked Learning Predictive Control of Nonlinear Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-physical systems integrate computing, network and physical environments to make the systems more efficient and cooperative, and have important and extensive application prospects, such as the Internet of things. This paper studies the control problem of nonlinear cyber-physical systems with unknown dynamics and communication delays. A networked learning predictive control scheme is proposed for unknown nonlinear cyber-physical systems. This scheme recursively learns unknown system dynamics, actively compensates for communication delays and accurately tracks a desired reference. Learning multi-step predictors are presented to predict various step ahead outputs of the unknown nonlinear cyber-physical systems. The optimal design of controllers minimises a performance cost function which measures the tracking error predictions and control input increment predictions. The system analysis leads to the stability criteria of closed-loop nonlinear cyber-physical systems employing the networked learning predictive control scheme. An example illustrates the outcomes of the proposed scheme.

     

灾害系统论及其减灾模型研究初步

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模糊系统逼近理论的发展现状

综述了近年来模糊系统逼近理论的主要研究成果,包括Madani型和T-S型模糊系统具有通用逼近性的存在性定理、充分条件和必要条件,以及模糊系统具有通用逼近性的本质。在此基础上,进一步介绍了目前有效的几种模糊系统构造方法:自适应模糊逻辑系统方法、自适应神经模糊推理系统(ANFIS)方法、模糊聚类法、模糊树方法。最后对该理论的未来发展方向给出了分析和展望。     

从系统论谈科学的统一

系统论是走向科学统一的重要一步。科学统一论的发展是从地面力学与天体力学的统一、光电磁场的统一、时空几何与引力理论的统一，到四种基本作用力的统一。论述了从宇宙基本规律与生命运动规律的统一去建立大统一论。     

The Commercialization of the Nonprofit Sector: A General Systems Theory Perspective

A prominent theme in the modern multidisciplinary nonprofit studies is that commercial activities of nonprofit organizations impair the ability of these organizations to deliver their missions. The present research note argues that this criticism of nonprofit commercialization is based on what von Bertalanffy designated as the ??mechanistic?? view of the nonprofit sector. The research note utilizes von Bertalanffy??s general systems theory to argue that nonprofit organizations are open systems maintaining themselves in an environment in which the supply of critical resources is insecure. Accordingly, commercial activities must be seen as the self-regulatory mechanism that enables, rather than hinders, nonprofit organizations to deliver their missions in hostile environments, as they often are today.     

线性时变经济系统分支稳定性研究:生存理论方法

研究线性时变经济系统的分支稳定性问题 .定义了描述系统状态约束的集值映射 ,利用生存理论 ,分别给出了在状态约束为光滑和非光滑时系统分支渐近稳定的充要条件 .     

一类非线性系统的迭代学习控制

在一类非线性系统的闭环迭代学习控制中，对系统输入进行闭环D型迭代学习，对输入的初值采用P型迭代学习控制律，给出了它的收敛性证明，从收敛性的证明过程可以看出，这种迭代学习控制受到较小的收敛条件的限制最后用仿真结果对收敛性和收敛条件进行了验证。     

模糊逻辑系统的一种自适应参数学习算法

根据自适应模糊逻辑理论以及基于导数的参数优化方法,分析了模糊逻辑系统常规参数优化算法存在的不足,从改善模糊系统的参数训练步长的角度着手,对其常规的最速下降算法进行了改进,提出了一种新的自适应模糊逻辑系统参数学习算法,并对该算法的推导过程进行了具体的分析和描述。最后,针对一非线性函数逼近问题,对该算法进行了验证,仿真的逼近精度和收敛速度都获得了提高,表明本文提出的模糊逻辑系统自适应参数学习算法是可行和有效性的,且能够克服常规参数优化算法中存在的某些不足。     

基于学习理论的产品重新设计策略

为研究在单一产品生产环境中产品重新设计对价值、成本和质量管理有关问题的影响，我们提出了一个动态规划模型，该模型可以确定企业最优的产品重新设计深度和实施重新设计的最优时间，这样能使累积的净产品价值最大化。该模型可以使用不同的学习率和不同的成本数据进行计算，最后的结果表明，早期实施最优产品重新设计策略提高了产品的累积净价值。