Improving population health requires understanding and changing societal structures and functions, but countervailing forces sometimes undermine those changes, thus reflecting the adaptive complexity inherent in public health systems. The purpose of this paper is to propose systems thinking as a conceptual rubric for the practice of team science in public health, and transdisciplinary, translat...

The paper aims at substantiating the first steps of a more general undertaking regarding self-awareness in agent-based systems, founded on Hofstadter’s ideas and presented in previous papers (illustrating the broad-band technology potential from an anthropocentric and transdisciplinary perspective). This second paper focuses on computer science aspects, keeping a definite engineering perspectiv...

Web Intelligence deals with the scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of soft computing and advanced intelligent paradigms for the next generation of Web-based systems, services, and environments. Chance discovery means discovering chances — the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining...

BACKGROUND The question of identity of psychiatry as a medical profession as well as of the future of psychiatry has been the subject of much controversial discussion. METHOD An overview of available literature on crisis and challenges in contemporary psychiatry as well as on future of psychiatry. RESULTS In this paper we present our transdisciplinary multiperspective view on psychiatry bas...

Although trust is recognized as important in security issues of computer networking environments, few studies on information systems deal with both trust and security, and those existing tend to remain within the short perimeter of two-agent interactions. We propose to rethink trust research on information system security by considering the holistic approach of critical infrastructure protectio...

Constructivism has recently gained popularity, although it is not a completely new learning paradigm. Much of the work within e-learning, for example, uses constructivism as a reference “discipline” (explicitly or implicitly). However, some of the work done within the simulation gaming (SG) community discusses what the basic assumptions and implications of constructivism for SG are. Constructiv...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the shared interest of the public health and parks and recreation sectors in promoting active visits to parks. At the institutional level, both sectors have missions to promote physical activity and view parks as key components in attaining physical activity goals. While some balancing among park goals may be necessary to avoid overuse and resource degrad...

To address the “grand challenge” of biosphere sustainability, it is imperative that we examine the assumptions and philosophies underlying Information Systems sustainability research and expand research approaches. Despite calls for transdisciplinary research and recognition that addressing sustainability will require multiple perspectives, a review of the IS sustainability literature finds tha...

This paper examines the relationship between visual design and information systems (IS) design and describes how IS theory and practice has viewed visual design (an aesthetic discipline) from a positivist perspective. First, we present a rationale for the current view of aesthetics from the positivistic IS discipline. After tracing the philosophical development of aesthetics and its associated ...