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Research on Transdisciplinarity: Knowledge Representation and Conceptual Integration

by Anthony Judge

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Conceptual integration

The challenge for the international community to provide some form of conceptual integration across disciplinary and cultural boundaries has resulted in a continuing series of studies on integrative approaches, interdisciplinarity and configurations of insights.

• Definitional Boundary Games and De-Signing the 21st Century (1995)
• Strategic Correspondences: computer-aided insight scaffolding (1995)
• Clarification of a Mathematical Challenge for Systems Science (1995)
• Transdisciplinarity-3 as the Emergence of Patterned Experience: transcending duality as the conceptual equivalent of learning to walk (1994)
• Spherical Configuration of Categories to Reflect Systematic Patterns of Environmental Checks and Balances (1994)
• La métaphore: une ressource mal-explorée pour l'éco-développement viable (1993)
• La transdisciplinarité et les volumes: l'articulation des relations entre les disciplines à l'aide des propriétés des polyèdres (1992)
• Patterns of Conceptual Integration (1984)
• Higher Orders of Inter-Sectoral "Consensus": clarification of formal possibilities: methodology (1992)
• Geometry of Organizations, Policies and Programmes (1992)
• Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Configuration (1992)
• Configuring Globally and Contending Locally: shaping the global network of local bargains by decoding and mapping Earth Summit inter-sectoral issues: inter-sectoral Dialogue (Rio de Janeiro, 1-2 June 1992) (1992)
• Higher Orders of Inter-Sectoral "Consensus": clarification of formal possibilities (1991)
• Review of Frameworks for the Representation of Alternate Conceptual Orderings as Determined by Cultural and Linguistic Contexts (1986)
• Alternation between Variable Geometries: a brokership style for the United Nations as a guarantee of requisite variety (1985)

Patterns of Conceptual Integration (1984)

A 5-fold Pattern Language (1984)

Liberation of integration: pattern, oscillation, harmony and embodiment (1984)

Integrative Dimensions of Concept Sets: transformation with minimal distortion between implicitness and explicitness of set representations according to constraints on communicability (1981)

Presentation of GPID Integration Through Functional Classification of International Organizations (1980)

Concept Factors in Concept Scheme Integration: GPIO as a case study (1980)

Notes on Vector Equilibrium (1980)

Patterns of N-foldness: comparison of integrated multi-set concept schemes as forms of presentation (1980)

Representation, Comprehension and Communication of Sets: the role of number (1980)

Integrative Dimensions of Concept Sets: transformations with minimal distortion between implicitness and explicitness of set representation according to constraints on communicability (1980)

Visualization and Presentation of information

In the light of the increasing need to communicate more complex and dynamic insights, studies continue to be made of ways of presenting information in a more comprehensible manner. These investigations are currently extending into the use of network maps and metaphors and patterns.

• Envisaging the Art of Navigating Conceptual Complexity: in search of software combining artistic and conceptual insights (1995)
• Design Considerations for Spatial Metaphors: reflections on the evolution of viewpoint transportation systems (1994)
• Visualizing Relationship Networks: international, interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral: mapping networks of organization/problem relationships, production of an "Atlas of International Relationship Networks", development of a structural outliner (computer programme), tracking the concept structure of conferences (1992)
• Ordering the Undefinable: identifying meaningful patterns of "world problems" (1989)
• Atlas of International Relationship Network: review of the problems of mapping networks of organization/problem relationship in order to produce an "Atlas" as a complement to the Yearbook of International Organizations and to the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1987)
• Forms of presentation and the future of comprehension (1984)
• The Territory Construed as a Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1984)
• Minding the Future: a thought experiment on presenting new information (1980)
• Needs Communication: viable needs patterns and their identification
• The Territory Construed as a Map: in search of radical design innovations in the representation of human activities and their relationships (1979)

(1980)

• Report of the Forms of Presentation (1979)
• Mapping Possibilities in Response to Information Needs of Science Policy-making for Development (1978)
• De la Difficulté de Saisir la Problématique Mondiale (1978)
• Knowledge-Representation in a Computer-Supported Environment (1977)

Information systems

Because of the intimate relationships between organizational networks and the information systems which they develop or on which they depend, a number of studies have been made of the problems associated with emerging information systems and their implications for organizations.

• UIA Software Concerns (1993)
• Catalyzation of New Patterns of Collaboration using a PC-based Structural Outliner as an Imaging Scaffold: project proposal to the Collaborative Studies Competition of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (1992)
• Functional Classification (1984)
• INTERCONTACT: an on-line information system on international organizations and conferences (1981)
• Anti-developmental biases in thesaurus design (1981)

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