INCOSE Systems Science WG sponsor session at ISSS 2012
San Jose , USA
San Jose State University, California
Regarding key facets of system science this workshop will engage participants in exercises designed to increase their a) degree of mutual understanding, b) readiness for knowledge exchange and c) ability to foster similar interoperability in their respective local contexts.
Enhancing Interoperability of Systemists:
An exercise in Conceptual Blending of General Semantics and General Systems Theory
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2012 WORKSHOP
Pre-Conference Workshop, Sunday, 7/15/2011
Workshop Organizers: Jack Ring, Steve Krane, and Len Troncale
Purpose
Regarding key facets of system science this workshop will engage participants in exercises designed to increase their a) degree of mutual understanding, b) readiness for knowledge exchange and c) ability to foster similar interoperability in their respective local contexts.
Intent:
We will explore ways by which diverse systems practitioners can interoperate for knowledge exchange and coherent choice regarding the myriad aspects of creating and evolving systems. This will entail prompting and sharing respective ontic views. We will not strive to converge on one standard language. We will seek semantic equivalences and transformations.
We will use World Cafe and Nominal Group Technique to engage participants in workgroups that will organize examples of system terminology into meaningful (to them) relational networks, then cross brief the other working groups, and exercise conceptual blending techniques for unifying the field of discourse.