This book contains the proceedings of the Seventh National
Conference of the Italian Systems Society. The title, Systemics of
Incompleteness and Quasi-Systems, aims to underline the need for
Systemics and Systems Science to deal with the concepts of
incompleteness and quasiness. Classical models of Systemics are
intended to represent comprehensive aspects of phenomena and
processes. They consider the phenomena in their temporal and
spatial completeness. In these cases, possible incompleteness in
the modelling is assumed to have a provisional or practical nature,
which is still under study, and because there is no theoretical
reason why the modelling cannot be complete. In principle, this is
a matter of non-complex phenomena, to be considered using the
concepts of the First Systemics. When dealing with emergence, there
are phenomena which must be modelled by systems having multiple
models, depending on the aspects being taken into consideration.
Here, incompleteness in the modelling is intrinsic, theoretically
relating changes in properties, structures, and status of system.
Rather than consider the same system parametrically changing over
time, we consider sequences of systems coherently. We consider
contexts and processes for which modelling is incomplete, being
related to only some properties, as well as those for which such
modelling is theoretically incomplete-as in the case of processes
of emergence and for approaches considered by the Second Systemics.
In this regard, we consider here the generic concept of quasi
explicating such incompleteness. The concept of quasi is used in
various disciplines including quasi-crystals, quasi-particles,
quasi-electric fields, and quasi-periodicity. In general, the
concept of quasiness for systems concerns their continuous
structural changes which are always meta-stable, waiting for events
to collapse over other configurations and possible forms of
stability; whose equivalence depends on the type of phenomenon
under study. Interest in the concept of quasiness is not related to
its meaning of rough approximation, but because it indicates an
incompleteness which is structurally sufficient to accommodate
processes of emergence and sustain coherence or generate new,
equivalent or non-equivalent, levels. The conference was devoted to
identifying, discussing and understanding possible
interrelationships of theoretical disciplinary improvements,
recognised as having prospective fundamental roles for a new
Quasi-Systemics. The latter should be able to deal with problems
related to complexity in more general and realistic ways, when a
system is not always a system and not always the same system. In
this context, the inter-disciplinarity should consist, for
instance, of a constructionist, incomplete, non-ideological,
multiple, contradiction-tolerant, Systemics, always in progress,
and in its turn, emergent.
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