The sustainability challenges facing societies call for policies and governance systems that are attuned to the diversity of goods support enrich human life via ecological, technical other kinds systems, plurality values people hold across diverse cultures belief systems. A pluralistic evaluation framework (PEF) is here presented as a tool considering goodness perceived by stakeholders in desig...

The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the literature which leads to the building of the system notions that are currently widely used in industrial and technological analysis, such as, for instance, National Systems of Innovation and Technological Systems. It is shown how a coherent theoretical and methodological background can be derived from a pluralistic approach, which is built on...

Increasing European co-operation must take place in many areas, including medical ethics. Against the background of common cultural norms and pluralistic variation within political traditions, religion and lifestyles, Europe will have to converge towards unity within the field of medical ethics. This article examines how such convergence might develop with respect to four major areas: European ...

This article reflects on existing and emerging future challenges arising in the area of “evolutionary business information systems,” a class of systems that demand an evolutionary software development process and support secondary design on various conceptual layers. We place both existing contributions and future research opportunities in context by referring to an idealized, preliminary syste...

Digitalization and the emergence of the Internet have resulted in escalating access to information and communication. Given the circumstances that soaring access to information amounts to the intensification of misinformation and disinformation, a set of critical skills to navigate and critically assess the information is necessary. This paper outlines the significance of these skills, and prov...

We demonstrate a heterogeneity of representation types for breast cancer phenotypes and stress that the characterisation of a tumour phenotype often includes parameters that go beyond the representation of a corresponding empirically observed tumour, thus reflecting significant functional features of the phenotypes as well as epistemic interests that drive the modes of representation. According...

Why do populations often self-organize into antagonistic groups even in the absence of competition over scarce resources? Is there a tendency to demarcate groups of “us” and “them” that is inscribed in our cognitive architecture? We look for answers by exploring the dynamics of influence and attraction between computational agents. Our model is an extension of Hopfield’s attractor network. Agen...

Growing evidence suggests that acquired brain injury (ABI) rehabilitation and research should be guided by a philosophy that focuses on: restoration, compensation, function and participation in all aspects of daily life. Such a broad, more pluralistic approach influences ABI rehabilitation research at a number of levels, including both the generation of evidence, and in searching for, critiquin...