Hi Phil. Actually there's been quite a bit on growth, from cancer to the
corporation to countries, not that I mean to imply any semantic
parallels here (: There may or may not be computational or mathematical
models to a greater or lesser degree. I think this is because so many of
the presentations are domain driven to show a new approach and solution
to the domain problem that "complexity thinking"--as many seem to say
around here--offers. Representation of the problem and the solution
varies.
Mike
>>> "Phil Henshaw" <sy at synapse9.com> 06/29/06 10:49 PM >>>
Thanks, There certainly seems to be a lot going on; 32 major speakers
and 320 papers in 16 sessions!
I searched the NECSI site for the subject of 'growth' and found 44
pages. There was no mention of NECSI's growth itself, though that might
have been interesting. All but 7 hits were NECSI06 conference
abstracts. Only one clearly referred to dynamic system growth as
involving changes in the organization of the system... Everyone seems
to assume growth refers to the shape of a curve, and not what's
happening inside the thing producing the curve.
That seems remarkable given that a) growth curves are most commonly
evidence of internal loops in local processes that are emerging as a
system, and b) almost anything we can interpret as a natural system
traceably comes into being by growth.
Shouldn't we use the curves to help point us toward what they're coming
from?
> I'm at the NECSI conference in Boston this week and recommend
> a look at the program web page with links to abstracts and
> papers,
http://www.necsi.org/community/wiki/index.php/ICCS06.
> Extremely interesting variety of presentations.
>
> Mike
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