Emergence in Complex, Cognitive, Social, and Biological Systems

Opening Lecture.- Synergetics - An Overview.- Modelling.- A First Cellular Automata Model of Red Mullet Behaviour.- Simulations of Forest Fires by Cellular Automata Modelling.- The Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM).- Cognitive Science.- The Emergence of Strategies in Cognitive Development.- Emergence of the Symbolic function.- Synaptic Development as a Variational Problem.- Theoretical Issues in Systemics.- Emergence and Ergodicity: A Line of Research.- Decomposition of Systems.- Generic Properties of Complex Networks.- The Role of Stability Theory in the Great Theories of the XX Century.- A Generalization of Compensation Mechanism in Variable-Structure Systems.- Education.- A Systemic Proposal on the Use of a New Technology as a Learning Tool in School Context.- A System Approach to the Educational Research: Reflection on an Experience.- Evaluating an Educational Course. A Constructivist Approach.- Systemic Approach and Information Technology.- Reactive Navigation Based on Self-Organised Visual Information.- Web Usability: Meaning and Context. Over Data Structures.- Membrane Systems for Computing.- General Systems.- Transforming Leadership through Coalitions: Building the Ethics of Sustainable Development in Globalization.- Meaning Extraction from the Analysis of Video-Registrations of Human Movements.- Multidisciplinary Techniques for Classifying Styles in Narrative Texts: a Preliminary Study.- The Religious Aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the West Bank: Systemic Implications.- Disciplinarity in the Pursuit of Knowledge.- Management.- Distributed Knowledge Management. A Systemic Approach.- The Role of Knowledge Management as a Key Tool for Companies to deal with the Turbulent Environment: A Survey.- Systemic Approaches to Human Care.- Balancing and Compensating Equilibrium Deficits in Beings Provided with Cognitive Processing Capabilities.- Emergence, Individuality, Therapy. A Systemic Vision of Homeopathy.- Systemic Support Therapy for Cancer PatientsDuring and After Chemotherapy.- A Systemic Approach to the Modelling of Epileptic Phenomena.- Synergetics and Systemics.- Some Comments about Determinism and Classical Physics.- What is Emergence?.- Quantum Field Theory and System Theory.