PROGRAMMA DEI LAVORI
CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Registrazione / Enrolment

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Apertura e benvenuto al Quarto Congresso dell’AIRS /
Welcome to the Fourth Conference of the Italian Systems Society
G. Minati, presidente dell’AIRS / AIRS president

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Opening Lecture: Coerenza, complessità e creatività /
Coherence, complexity and creativity,
Professor Fortunato Tito Arecchi - Chair of Physics, University of Firenze and Scientific Responsible of Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata (INOA)

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Coffee break

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Session 1
Emergence in Architecture

Chairman Minati

Session 5 - (Aula B / Room B)
Emergence in Artificial Intelligence

Chairman Di Gregorio

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20. Environment and architecture –
a paradigm shift.

Di Battista V.

18. Differences approaches to Semantics in Knowledge Representation.

David S., Montesanto A. and Rocchi C.

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17. Architectural Phenomena and
the Human Habitation of Space.

Collen A.

27. Bidimensional Turing Machines
as Galilean Models of Human Computation.

Giunti M.

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8. Questions of method regarding interoperability in architecture.

Arlati E. and Giallocosta G.

49. A Neural Model of Face Recognition: a comprehensive approach.

Stara V., Montesanto A., Puliti P., Tascini G., Sechi C.

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19. Comprehensive plans for
a culture–driven local development: emergence as a tool for understanding social impacts of projects on built cultural heritage.

Della Torre S.

51. Anticipatory cognitive systems.

Terenzi G.

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25. Systemics and Architecture:
current theoretical knots.

Giallocosta G.

14. Models of decision making in games with incomplete information.

Bonfiglio N., Percivalle S., Pessa E.

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Session 8 - Theoretical Problems of Systemics

Chairman  Pessa

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11. Downward Causation and Relatedness in Emergent Systems:
Epistemological Remarks

Bich L.

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38. Towards a general theory of change.

Pessa E.

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33. Acquired emergent properties

Minati G.

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Coffee break

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47. The growth of populations of protocells

Serra R, Carletti T., Poli I. and Filisetti A.

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48. Investigatine cell criticality.

Serra R., Villani M., Damiani C., Graudenzi A., Ingrami P. and Colacci A.

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22. Relativistic Stability - Part 1.
Relation between Special Relativity and Stability Theory in the two-body problem.

Di Caprio U.

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23. Relativistic Stability - Part 2.
A study of black-holes and of the Schwarzschild radius.

Di Caprio U.

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Pranzo / Lunch

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Session 2
Processes of Emergence in Economics and Management

Chairman Biggiero

Session 3 – Aula B / Room B
Emergence

Chairman Serra

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15. Modeling the 360° innovating firm
as a multiple system
or collective being.

Bouchard V.

46. Evolutionary computation and emergent modelling of natural phenomena.

Rongo R., Spataro W., D’Ambrosio D.,
Avorio M.V., Lupino V. and Di Gregorio S.

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13. Emergent effects of task interdependence and bounded rationality on workgroup performance

Biggiero L. and Sevi E.

29. A new model for the organizational knowledge life cycle.

Lella L., Licata I.

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26. Importance of the infradisciplinary areas in the systemic approach towards new company organisational models: the building industry.

Giallocosta G.

28. On generalization: constructing a concept from a single example.

Guberman S.

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Coffee break

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Session 2 – Processes of Emergence in Economics and Management (continuation)

Chairman Biggiero

Session 3 – Aula B / Room B
Emergence (continuation)

Chairman Serra

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43. Systemic openness of the economy
and normative analysis.

Ramazzotti P.

34. General theory of emergence
beyond systemic generalization.

Minati G.

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39. Motivational antecedents
of individual innovation.

Picci P. and Battistelli A.

16. Uncertainty, Coherence, Emergence.

Bruno G.

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50. An e-usability view of the Web: a systemic method for user interfaces.

Stara V., Penna M.P. and Tascini G.

4. Emergence and
gravitational conjectures.

Allievi P, Trotta A.

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Social dinner at the Grand Hotel Imperial, Levico Terme (TN)

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Session 9 -
Cognitive Science

Chairman Licata

Session 6 - (Aula B / Room B)
Emergence in Medicine

Chairman Penna

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12. Organizations as cognitive systems -
is knowledge an emergent property
of information networks?

Biggiero L.

5. Burnout and Job Engagement in Emergency and Intensive Care Nurses

Argentero P. and Dell’Olivo B.

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37. Communication, silence and miscommunication.

Penna M.P. , Mocci S. and Sechi C.

44. The “implicit” ethics of a systemic approach to the medical praxis.

Ricciuti A.

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40. Music: creativity and
structure transitions.

Pietrocini E.

7. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
in Emergency Workers:
Risk factors and Treatment.

Argentero P., Dell’Olivo B., and Setti I.

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Coffee break

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42. The emergence of figural effects
in the watercolor illusion

Pinna B. and Penna M. P.

30. Variabilità di stato ed attrattori psicopatologici. La complessità comportamentale come discriminante tra i profili di normalità e di patologia.

Marconi P. L.

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41. Continuities and discontinuities
in motion perception

Pinna B. and Gregory R.L.

31. Environment, products, technologies and models of disablement:
from assistive technologies
to universal design.

Masala C. and Petretto D. R.

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45. Mother and infant talk about mental states: theory of mind understanding.

Rollo D. and Buttiglieri F.

Discussion

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Pranzo / Lunch

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Session 9 -
Cognitive Science (continuation)

Chairman Licata

Session 4 – (Aula B / Room B)
Emergence in Social Systems

Chairman Tascini

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9. Conflict in relationships and perceived support in innovative work behavior.

Battistelli A., Picci P. and Odoardi C.

35. Inducing Systems Thinking
in consumer societies.

Minati G. and Magliocca L.

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3. Role variables vs contextual variables in the theory of didactic systems.

Alberti M., Cirina L. and Paoli F.

10. Contextual Analysis –
a Multiperspective Inquiry into Emergence of Complex
Socio-cultural Systems.

Bednar P.

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Coffee break

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Session 7
Models and Systems

Chairman Bruno

Session 4 – (Aula B / Room B)
Emergence in Social Systems (continuation)

Chairman Tascini

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1. Decomposition of systems
and complexity.

Abram M.

24. Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: affective commitment predictors in a group of professionals.

Ferretti M. S.

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21. How many stars are there in heaven ?
The results of a study of universe
in the light of stability theory.

Di Caprio U.

6. Organizational climate assessment:
a systemic perspective.

Argentero P. and Setti I.

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32. Description of a complex system through the recursive functions.

Massa Finoli G.

36. Environment and urban tourism:
An emergent system in rhetorical
place identity definitions.

Mura M.

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2. Issues on critical infrastructures.

Abram M. and Sforna M.

Discussion

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Chiusura del Congresso / End of the Conference