Behavioural issues in environmental modelling -the missing perspective

Abstract The paper aims to demonstrate the importance of behavioural issues in environmental modelling. These issues can relate both to the modeler and to the modelling process including the social interaction in the modelling team. The origins of behavioural effects can be in the cognitive and motivational biases or in the social systems created as well as in the visual and verbal communication strategies used. The possible occurrence of these phenomena in the context of environmental modelling is discussed and suggestions for research topics are provided

Essays on Systems Intelligence

In the present volume the emphasis is on the foundational, conceptual, psychological as well as practice-oriented aspects of human intelligence. As is customary with systems intelligence, the essays represent a number of different methodologies, disciplines and topics of interest. In the opening essay, Esa Saarinen and Raimo P. Hämäläinen elaborate on systems intelligence as an original form of human intelligence paying particular attention to the origin of intelligence in the light of infant research. The paper argues for systems intelligence as an integrating framework which complements earlier work on human intelligence. In his three essays, John Rauthmann discusses conceptually and empirically systems intelligence with respect to classical conceptualizations of intelligence and with respect to certain essential psychological themes. His first article studies systems intelligence as a trait and ability, investigating the connections of the construct to previous psychological intelligence literature. In his second contribution, Rauthmann develops a new systemic meta-model of personality. In his third essay, Rauthmann proposes a trait-SI scale for operationalizing the concept. Based on his original proposal, Rauthmann goes on to report what is the first empirical attempt to measure systems intelligence. In his methodologically innovative essay, Kalevi Kilkki creates a social systems map of systems intelligence by presenting and applying a novel web search engine methodology to the construct of systems intelligence. The result is a description of the connections of the notion of systems intelligence with concepts in other disciplines and with some leading scholars in those disciplines. This is followed by an essay by Otso Palonen with a discussion of learning from the perspective of systems intelligence. In their contribution, Ella Rönkkönen and Esa Saarinen take the bold step of applying chemical engineering to an analysis of the Broaden and Build Theory of positive emotions developed by Barbara Fredrickson, and then link Fredrickson’s insights with systems intelligence. Anne Birgitta Pessi uses systems intelligence to analyse volunteerism, presenting a fresh conceptualization of that domain. The final essay by Pia Tikka reflects cinema as an intersubjective neuroscientific experience. The concepts of embodied simulation and the 6 cinema author’s mental workspace simulatorium are discussed in their relation to systems intelligence

Systeemiäly 2005

Systeemiäly on näkökulma, joka tavoittelee teoreettisesti uutta ja rikastavaa valotusta inhimilliseen todellisuuteen – näkökulmaa, joka kuitenkin on intuitiivisesti tuttu, luonnollinen ja käytössä kaiken aikaa osana ihmisenä olemistamme. Olennaista systeemiälylle on nykyhetkisyys ja prosessuaalinen osallistuvuus erotuksena prosessin tarkkailu, intellektuaalinen reflektio tai käsitteellistävä objektivointi. Systeemiäly on toiminnallisessa tilantessa ilmenevää käytännön älykkyyttä, jossa tuntuma, taju ja kokonaisvaikutusten hahmotus ovat avainasemassa. Käsillä oleva neljäs systeemiälyteos jatkaa aikaisempien systeemiälykirjojen linjaa. Tavoitteena on jälleen esittää näkökulmia olennaisiin teemoihin, keskustelunavauksia ja sytykkeitä ja syventää siten systeemiälyä koskevaa ymmärrystämme. Teoksen artikkelit käsittelevät mm. seuraavia teemoja: Oma systeemiälyni, Suomen teollinen tulevaisuus, työyhteisöjen supertuottavuus, yritysostojen onnistuminen, roolit, systeemiälykkään toiminnan havainnointi, systeemiälykäs työ, ympäristötietoisuus, systeemiälykäs koulu, ekologinen rationaalisuus, huippu-urheilu, flow-virtaus, meemit, Pafoksen elämänfilosofia, hyvinvointi, parempi elämä, moraali ja oikeudenmukaisuus, ihmisenä oleminen

Design Gaming for Learning Systems Intelligence in Socio‐Emotional Systems

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Operational Research: Methods and Applications

Throughout its history, Operational Research has evolved to include a variety of methods, models and algorithms that have been applied to a diverse and wide range of contexts. This encyclopedic article consists of two main sections: methods and applications. The first aims to summarise the up-to-date knowledge and provide an overview of the state-of-the-art methods and key developments in the various subdomains of the field. The second offers a wide-ranging list of areas where Operational Research has been applied. The article is meant to be read in a nonlinear fashion. It should be used as a point of reference or first-port-of-call for a diverse pool of readers: academics, researchers, students, and practitioners. The entries within the methods and applications sections are presented in alphabetical order. The authors dedicate this paper to the 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquake victims. We sincerely hope that advances in OR will play a role towards minimising the pain and suffering caused by this and future catastrophes