First Award of The Charles François International Prize established by IASCYS

This article describes the circumstances of the establishment of the Charles François Prize by the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) and the procedure of its awarding. The role of Charles François?s personality, in the development, popularization, and dissemination of systems thinking, the trans-disciplinary methodology of scientific research and the solution of social and practical problems based on it, is shown

Teaching and Learning Systems Thinking : What, Why, When, Where, Who, What For, How?

Currently everybody needs to be educated for lifelong time, so we have to be careful what we put in the education programs, and when, in order to create a systems thinking acquired culture and an ethical holistic behaviour

Local versus global & individual versus whole competition between & within living systems ARMSADA emergence and breaking

Whatever its level of organization, anyalive system,to survive ('eating and not being eaten') and live on, has 'to be lucky' for 'to be at the right place at the right time'. Formed by embedments and juxtapositions of pre-existing systems in anewendophysiotope(ENDO),itisapartofafoodchain:iteatsandiseaten.Soonorlateitisimpossiblenottobeeaten.Man is not an exception. The modularity of alive systems allows both a partial location and a global recycling of matter andenergy.Thepleiotropyofthestructuresandfunctions,allowing 'to make of a stone several knocks', is a mechanism of exaptation of a new Whole.The agoantagonistic relations balance, within any ecoexotope (EXO), ends soon or late with the disappearance of predators and a reduction of biodiversity.The merging into Associations for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages (ARMSADA) allows the emergence of a new biodiversity

Systèmes vivants : Lois locales et globales, invariance d'échelle

To survive that is 'to eat and not to be eaten', to live on [9, 11]. Any living system [10], to survive and live on [9], whatever is its spatial [28] and temporal [23, 29, 35] level of organization, owns 7 invariant qualitative characteristics (degrees of freedom) [19]. Any alive system is formed by embedding and juxtapositions [17] of pre-existing systems [22]. How are the local quantitative laws, of their spatial-temporal structuring and functioning, associated with these qualitative characteristics independently from the dimensional scales? How are they independent/dependent from the new global level of organization and the local situations of emergence? How do the local actors become mutually integrated into their global whole? And reversely (systemic constructal law [4]), why and how is the global whole reciprocally integrating the local parceners [18, 20]? At every level of organization, the evolution of the living systems obeys 5 organizing principles of emergence [33] and the space (the volume of the adult system VA) and the duration (time of generation tg) are linked through a power law (generalized Kepler's 3rd law like VA2 = C.tg3), a law of growth (figure 3) and exchange (figure 4). As all the sub-systems which live in it, the whole Universe is living in an ecoexotope that it can share with other Universes

Académie Internationale de Cybernétique et Science des Systèmes (IASCYS) : Première attribution du Prix International Charles François

L'Académie Internationale de Cybernétique et Sciences des Systèmes, IASCYS, association sans but lucratif et ne disposant d'aucun financement, décerne, sans périodicité, le Prix International Charles François dont l'un des objectifs est de relier les structures et les compétences en cybernétique et systémique, quels que soient la langue et le domaine d'expertise des acteurs. Décerné pour la première fois, après un processus de pré-sélection anonyme et d'évaluation consensuelle, le prix a récompensé, dans des domaines variés (Cybersystemic Management of Changes, Professional Methods and Tools for Cybersystemics), à la fois des chercheurs confirmés mais ‘oubliés‘ et de jeunes chercheurs ‘prometteurs‘

The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences

IASCYS main purposes are: to honour very distinguished authors in the area of systemics and cybernetics; to make the movement of systemic behaviour stronger, because it can offer an essential help to humankind that needs more than a one-sided behaviour to overcome the current crises without war on the global level; to influence the current civilisatio

International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS): The first awards of the International Prize

For the first time the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, IASCYS, ( http://iascys.org), has awarded the Charles François International Prize, during the 10thUES-EUS Congress (http://ues-eus.eu), in Brussels, Belgium, Europe. The first step of the procedure was the nomination of interesting papers through asking for the reviewing process by all IASCYS Academicians. So, 6 weeks before the start of the meeting, a booklet of 40 abstracts, all previously anonymously peer-reviewed by the scientific committee of the congress, and each as a 1 page of text, with neither author(s) name(s), nor affiliation(s) or references, was sent to all Academicians. After a 1 month delay, 10 papers of people from 9 Countries (Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Russia), have been nominated by Academicians, by e-mails replies. After the congress organizers have proposed as jurors a team of 3 systems scientists who all are speaking both French and English (the official formal languages of the UES-EUS congress), an equal number of 3 Academicians, who are as well fluent in English, French and other languages, attended as the IASCYS part of the jury. After this key step of peers pre-selection, the second step, during the meeting in Brussels, was for all 6 jurors to listen and participate to the corresponding talks-debate for each of the selected papers, in order to rank the top 3 of the most promising works, and then to reflect on the final ranking for the award. The jurors were anonymous. The listening process was the usual process of talk (20 min) and questions (10 min) with the public as in every congress, but also with personal no-formal discussion of jurors with the nominated persons. The first Charles François International Prize of the Academy (gold medal) was awarded to Julio LABORDE, a young Chilean research engineer who is working in the International industrial firm 'Insight Signals'. He is also a student in the prestigious École Pratique des Hautes Études, in Paris, France. His talk was about "Extraction of Information from Agent Base Models. A new pre-topological metric for controlling the propagation of crises." It took place during the 'Methods and tools for risk management of complex socio-technical systems'session. No discussion, his work was the most promising work of the congress. His work was the most promising work of this congress of the European Union for Systemics.This second step allows also, after a debate, to award 3 second places (3 silver medals). They all got the Charles François tutorial in Systems Science on a USB stick and they all, gold and silver medals (Figure 1), will have a certificate of ranking. But, all of them, will get their certificates of award/ranking only after their paper proof will be corrected and accepted. The other 3 certificated persons, silver medals, are (by alphabetic order): -Mick ASHBY, a research engineer in computing sciences who is working for IBM in Germany. His work was about the application of a new paradigm 'The Ethical Regulator Theorem'; -Tjorven HARMSEN, a very young Swedish women who is in Ph. D. in the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, in Berlin (Germany). Her work was ab out 'Crisis as Social Autocatalysis. On the emergence and Utilization of Opportunities' (a very promising talk, a young researcher to follow; and -Daniela TERRILE, a women who is Professor in the Department of Design at the Polytechnic Institute of Milano, Italy. Her work was about 'Applications of the Target Constellation Model'. 2 other works were also very interesting but one was not into the book of abstracts (it was not peer-reviewed), the other one was into it but it was not pre-selected. No process is perfect. But the rule is the rule: no peer-reviewing, no preselection, means no competition. The important point is that few of the 'preselected and nominated, but not ranked in the top 3' participants said they will attend the next one edition of the Prize in Morocco. And other young researchers said they will do their best to attend another occurrence of the Prize. The Prize was opened to strengthen multi-disciplinary research and the multi-language communication of recent results, towards a worldwide education in Cybernetics and Systems Thinking (Bricage, 2017), which are aims of the Academy (Bricage, 2014). “Want to influence the world? Map reveals the best languages to speak.” (Ronen et al., 2014). On the IASCYS website you will find the rules of the Prize, in English, Spanish, French and Russian

Education for sustainability: lessons from living systems governance

International audienceTo survive that is 'to eat and not to be eaten'. Whatever its spatial and temporal level of organisation, every living system, to survive and 'to itself survive its self', owns 7 invariant capacities: the gauge invariance paradigm (figure 1). Emerging by embedments and juxtapositions of previous systems, every living system-of-systems (figure 2) is both independent and dependent from its new global level of organisation (endophysiotope) and past and present local situations of emergence (ecoexotope). Mass growth governs growth phase duration (figure 3). Local actors, modules of past, present and new modules-of-modules (figure 4) become mutually integrated (percolation process) into a new global Whole (figure 5) through their merging into an ARMSADA (Association for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages). Reversely, systemic constructal law (figure 6), the global Whole is integrating the local parceners. Whatever the level of organisation (figure 7), the living systems obey the same principles of evolution and emergence: the volume of the adult system VA (i.e. space scaling) and its time of generation tg (i.e. duration scaling) are linked through a power law VA2 = C.tg3 (figure 8). The mass controlled duration of acquisition of the reproductive capacity and the volume at the acquisition are always linked by this power law of exponent 3/2 : this dynamic fractal law is invariant, “between and within levels of organisation”, on a 62x62x62x62 dimensions scale (figure 9). As all the sub-systems which live in it, the whole Universe survives into an ecoexotope that it shares with other Universes. Brownian motion is the basic phenomenon of control of growth (figure 10) and flows exchange: matter and energy are exchanged at constant flow rate (figure 11). A Pareto relationship governs limits and limitations interactions (figure 12): 'mutual survival depends on reciprocal limitations', 'for the best and for the worst' (figure 13); to survive that is to transform disadvantages into advantages and to avoid advantages turn to disadvantages (figure 14). [100 references

APPROCHE SYSTÉMIQUE TRANSDISCIPLINAIRE DE L’AGOANTAGONISME ET DU DILEMME DES PRISONNIERS À PARTIR D’UN CORPUS DE BANDES DESSINÉES

Le « dilemme des prisonniers » est une situation où deux acteurs ont intérêt à coopérer, mais chacun peut trahir l’autre. Si l’un coopère et l’autre trahit, le coopérateur est pénalisé, le traître récompensé. Si les deux trahissent, le résultat leur est moins favorable que s’ils avaient coopéré. Itéré plusieurs fois de suite, le jeu autorise chaque protagoniste à user de représailles envers l’autre ; il est utilisé pour modéliser des phénomènes en politique, en biologie et en psychologie. On montre, à l’aide d’une méthode graphique, que « trahir ou coopérer, punir la traîtrise », sont les situations qui font l’intérêt du scénario d’une bande dessinée! La méthodologie retenue détermine les stratégies des protagonistes, quelles variantes sont rencontrées d’une série à une autre, et comment émergent les situations nouvelles. Cette méthodologie ouvre aux jeux d’économie expérimentale (équilibre de Nash, optimum de Pareto) et à l’écriture d’un scénario, et permet d’intégrer l’analyse scientifique, systémique, transdisciplinaire, d’un document de littératie illustrée, dans un parcours pédagogique pluridisciplinaire, voire pluri-niveaux de formation.The "prisoner's dilemma" game describes how two actors should cooperate, but everyone can betray the other one. If one cooperates and the other betrays, the cooperator is penalized, the traitor is rewarded. If the two betray, their profits is less favourable than if they had cooperated. The “iterated play", allowing every protagonist to use of reprisals against the other one, is used to model political, biological and psychological phenomena. Using a graphic method we evidence that "to betray or to cooperate, to punish the unreliability" are the situations of interest in a comic strip. They contribute to new behaviours emergences. Pointing to the protagonists' strategies and variants that are present from one series to another, we show how a scenario will emerge. We evidence experimental economics rules (Nash's equilibrium, Pareto's optimum) and a scenario typology through a scientific systemic analysis. With a document of “littératie illustrée“, we can have a multidisciplinary educative course

Associations for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages

To survive the living systems must to eat and not to be eaten. But, soon or late, every one is eaten http://tinyurl.com/surviepbafscet. The law of the strongest is not-at-all the best ! The only way to escape from the struggle is to enter into an Association for the Reciprocal and Mutual Sharing of Advantages and DisAdvantages (ARMSADA). A lichen which is both an organism and an ecosystem, a cell which is also an ecosystem and an endosyncenosis (ceno: to meet and fuse, syn: into a system, endo: with a new internal structural and functional organisation), both are ARMSADAs. Every ARMSADA merges when the partners do lose simultaneously the capacity to kill the other one(s). In the new Whole, all that is an advantage for a partner is a disadvantage for the other one(s) http://tinyurl.com/pbsustdev. The ôparcenersô are fused together ôfor the best and for the worstö. The benefits are only for their Wholeness which expresses new ôabilitiesö http://tinyurl.com/andesymbiosis. The synthesis of the myelin, in the case of the neurone, emerges from the ôunity through diversityô between a population of Schwann's cells and a giant cellular body. The nitrogen fixation of the legumes' nodes emerges from the fusion of a population of Monera with -and within- an organism. The eukaryotic cell has emerged from the help of a RNA virus from a microbial mat of Monera http://tinyurl.com/pbcellorigin. In their new endophysiotope (endo: internal, tope: space, physio: of functioning), the ôparcenersô are absolutely dependant from each others. But, through the iteration of the process of new ARMSADAs' emerging, the new -more and more complex- ôsystem-of-systemsö is, more and more, independent of its ecoexotope (exo: external, tope: space, eco: of inhabitation) http://tinyurl.com/phylotagmotaphology. The endophysiotope of a i level of organisation is the ecoexotope of previous i-n levels. So the Whole is also less and more than the sum of its parts: because of the semi-autonomy of the parceners, simultaneously abilities of the previous levels are lost and new are gained http://tinyurl.com/anlea05pau. There is never advantages without disadvantages. To survive is to turn disadvantages into advantages and to avoid advantages turning into disadvantages. The systemic disfunctioning of its ARMSADA explains the apoptosis of the cell. That is the result of the death of one endangered internal partner (the monere parts: the population of mitochondria or the nucleus) which results into the death of the endosyncenosis. Cancer also is a breaking of the cell's ARMSADA http://tinyurl.com/pbcancerlisboa. Cells that should have to die, because of external dangers, ôthanksö to the escape of internal dormant viruses do not. Through this metamorphosis -http://tinyurl.com/pbmeta1- their new endophysiotope survives but their previous ecoexotope, the organism, is altered and endangered. Into an ARMSADA each partner can survive only if the other ones survive first. Man is not an exception http://tinyurl.com/WHYma