Activities
Important activities of the Society are:
- the General Systems Yearbook
- the General Systems Bulletin
- the Special Integration Groups
A listing of the Special Integration Groups (SIGs) gives an idea of the themes of ongoing development in the Society:
- Agent-based Social Simulation
- Balancing Individualism and Collectivism
- Critical Systems Theory & Practice
- Designing Educational Systems
- Evolutionary Development
- Foundations of Information Systems
- Health and Systems Thinking
- Hierarchy theory
- Human Systems Inquiry
- Information Systems Design and Information Technology
- ISSS Roundtable
- Living Systems Analysis
- Monetary Systems
- Organizational transformation and Social change
- Research Towards General Theories of Systems
- Service Systems Science
- Socio-Ecological Systems
- Spirituality and Systems
- Student Special Integration Group
- Systemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises
- Systemic Approaches to Persistent Poverty and Disadvantage
- Systems Applications in Business & Industry
- Systems Biology and Evolution
- Systems and Mental Health
- Systems Modeling and Simulation
- Systems Engineering
- Systems Pathology
- What is Life/Living
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