Recent Papers

Below are some recent papers by members of the Research Program. There are also assembled abstracts arranged by academic year. For older papers, look here.

2022

Umpleby, Stuart and Medvedeva, T. A. “The Beginnings of Second Order Cybernetics.” (Paper)

2021

2020

Umpleby, Stuart. “Advancing Science and Creating Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics​”

Umpleby, Stuart, and Vladimir Lepskiy. “Systems cybernetics and complexity: Foundations for the further development of science” 

2019

Umpleby, Stuart. “How Cybernetics is Contributing to Traditional Disciplines” (Slides) (Video)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Systems, Cybernetics and Complexity: Three Neighboring Fields” (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, Xiao-hui Wu, and Elise Hughes.  “ADVANCES IN CYBERNETICS PROVIDE A FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE” (Paper)

2018

Umpleby, Stuart. “2018 Annual Report on the Activities of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Reflexivity in Social Systems: The Theories of George Soros” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Identifying Stability or Instability in Economic Systems” (Paper) (Slides)

Bricage, Pierre. “A Systemic Vision of the Crises” European Union for Systemics, Brussels, Belgium, Oct. 15-17, 2018. (Abstracts)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Philosophies Underlying Systems and Cybernetics in Several Countries” (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart. “The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences” (Slides)

Metcalf, Gary S. and Stuart A. Umpleby. “Rating and Ranking Universities, What Criteria are most Aligned with Creating T-Shaped Faculty and Students?” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart. “A Global Strategy for Human Development: Another Way to do Social Science Research” (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart. “New Horizons for Second Order Cybernetics: Introducing a Book Edited by Alexander Riegler, Karl H. Mueller and Stuart Umpleby” (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Expanding Science and Advancing Reflexive Government: Two Current Projects in Cybernetics” (Paper) (Russian)

Umpleby, Stuart. “The Friendly Orange Glow” (Book Review)

Umpleby, Stuart, Tatiana A. Medvedeva and Vladimir E. Lepskiy. “Recent Developments in Cybernetics, from Cognition to Social Systems” (Paper)

2017

Umpleby, Stuart. “Third Order Cybernetics as the Evolution of Society” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Expanding the Conception of Science in Accord with the Correspondence Principle” (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, Papers submitted to the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey of the Social Sciences

“Reconsidering Cybernetics” (Paper 1)

“Action Research” (Paper 2)

“Two Systems of Ethical Cognition” (Paper 3)

Stuart A. Umpleby. “Creating a Science of Purposeful Systems” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby, Xiao-hui Wu, Elise Hughes. “Advances in Cybernetics Provide a Foundation for the Future” (Paper) (Updated List February 2019)

Umpleby, Stuart. “How Science is Changing.” (Paper) (Published Version) (German)

Alexander Riegler, Karl H. Mueller, & Stuart A. Umpleby (eds.). New Horizons for Second Order Cybernetics. World Scientific. (Book)

Kauffman, Louis and Stuart Umpleby, “Prologue:  A Brief History of (Second Order) Cybernetics” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart A. “Second Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science.”  (Paper or Paper)

Karl H. Müller, Stuart Umpleby & Alexander Riegler. “Epilogue:  Possible Futures for Cybernetics.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Systemic Solutions for Systemic Problems.”  (Paper) (Published)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Reflections on Systemic Problems and Solutions.”  (Paper)

2016

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Cybernetics as a Fundamental Revolution in Science” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Vladimir Lefebvre’s Theory of Two Systems of Ethical Cognition”(Paper) (Slides) (Video)

Umpleby, Stuart and Elise Hughes, “Recent Books on Cybernetics by the Author’s Country of Origin” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Reviving the American Society for Cybernetics, 1980-1982”  (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “A Global Strategy for Human Development as an Example of Second Order Science” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Author’s response: Struggling to define an identity for second-order cybernetics“

2015
Umpleby, Stuart,  “How cybernetics ‘ended’ in the U.S. but continued elsewhere”  (Book Review)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Cybernetics: A Foundational Scientific Field” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Intellectual Washington Today” (Paper)

Medvedev, Tatiana and Stuart Umpleby,  “A Multi disciplinary View of Social and Labor Relations: Changes in Management in the U.S. and Russia as Examples” (Paper)

2014

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Science: Logic, Strategies, Methods” (Paper) (Slides) (Video)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Identifying a Philosophy and Methods for Second-Order Science” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “The Social and Political Context of Science” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “The Role of Cybernetics in Security Policy” (Paper)

2013

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Cybernetics Then and Now ”  (Abstract) (Slides) (Video) (pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4, pic5);

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Science: The Effect on Business and Social Science Research” (Abstract) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “A General Theory of Regulation: Implications for Science Policy and Educational Policy” (Abstract) (Slides)

2012

Umpleby, Stuart, “A Second Expansion of Science” (Slides) (Audio lecture)

Stuart Umpleby, Jerry Chandler, Allenna Leonard, Michael Lissack, Helmut Loeckenhoff, Tatiana Medvedeva, Leonie Solomons, “Science II: A Report from the 2012 IFSR Conversation” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Service Learning as a Method of Instruction” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Science: Logic, Strategies, Methods” (Abstract) (Slides) (Video)

2011

Igor Dubina and Stuart Umpleby, “A Quality Improvement Approach to Assessing an Organization’s Climate for Creativity and Innovation ” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Second Order Economics as an Example of Second Order Cybernetics” (Paper) (Slides)

Mark Notturno, Ieva Notturno, Igor Dubina, Rita Gevorgyan, Ia Jimshitashvili, Edgar Marzpanyan, Tatiana Medvedeva, Ia Natsvlishvili, Oltion Rrumbullaku, Gulmira Yeshmuratova, “The Future of Higher Education in Post Communist States: Policy Possibilities for Public Discussion” (Report)

2010

Umpleby, Stuart, “Science 2:  Is a Broader Conception of Science Still Science?” (Paper)

Frank Anbari, Erzhen Khilkhanova, Maria Romanova, Mateo Ruggia, Han-Huei Tsay and Stuart Umpleby, “Cultural Differences in Projects” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “From Complexity to Reflexivity: The Next Step in the Systems Sciences” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “The 2008 Financial Crisis: What Happened and How We Need to Change our Thinking” (Paper)

Elizabeth Corona and Bradley Thomas, “A New Perspective on the Early History of the American Society for Cybernetics” (Paper)

Mark Notturno, Ieva Notturno, Ekaterine Bakaradze, Zlatko Bezovski, Perseta Grabova, Alkida Hasaj, Ana Jurcic, Marsel Kalemi, Ia Natsvlishvili and Ruzica Simic, “Teaching Methods: Policy Possibilities for Public Discussion” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby, Min Cho, Mateo Ruggia and Arjan Qefalia, “The Shift of Cybernetics from the U.S. to Europe: Implications for Understanding the Financial Crisis” (Paper)

2009

Frank Anbari, Erzhen Khilkhanova, Maria Romanova, Mateo Ruggia, Han-Huei Tsay and Stuart Umpleby, “Managing Cross Cultural Differences in Projects” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby and Nikola Levkov, “How Service Learning is Conducted in a School of Business” (Published version) (Corrected version)

Vera Gushchina and Stuart Umpleby, “How Universities in Russia and the US are Working to Improve Quality” (English Paper) (Russian Paper)

Stuart Umpleby and Emil Nedev, “A Reflexive view of a Transdisciplinary Field: The Case of Cybernetics” (Paper)

Han-Huei Tsay, Mateo Ruggia and Stuart Umpleby, “Convergers and Divergers : A Dimension of Cultural Difference between the U.S. and Europe” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Ross Ashby’s General Theory of Adaptive Systems” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “How Universities Can Aid the Transition” (Paper)

Rehab Choudhary, Abdur Choudhary, Stuart Umpleby, Farhab Choudhary, “An Analysis of the Modalities of Academic Globalization” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby, Min Cho and Mateo Ruggia, “How Research in Cybernetics is Moving from North America to Europe and Other Regions” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby, Konstantin Mekhonoshin and Zhelyu Vladimirov, “A Global University for a Global Village” (Paper)

2008

Stuart A. Umpleby, ” A Brief History of Cybernetics in The United States” (Paper)

Stuart Umpleby, “Russian-American Discussions of Cybernetics and Systems Science” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, Asset Nussupov and Bulat Khusainov, “A Study of Economic Change in the Eurasian Economic Community Using Time Distance Analysis” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart and Gabriela Rakicevik, “Adopting Service-Learning in Universities around the World” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart A.  “Cybernetics.”  In Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds.).  International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.  Vol. 1. Sage Publications, 2008, pp. 350-354. (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart A.  “Viable System Model.”  In Stewart Clegg and James Bailey (eds.).  International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies.  Vol. 4. Sage Publications, 2008, pp. 1616-1618. (Paper)

2007

Umpleby, Stuart and Alisa Oyler, “A Global Strategy for Human Development: The Work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Reflexivity in Social Systems: The Theories of George Soros.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Physical Relationships Among Matter, Energy and Information.” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Management Cybernetics: A Tutorial.” (Abstract) (Slides1) (Slides2) (Slides3) (Slides4)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Academic Globalization.” (Link)

Umpleby, Stuart A., “Ernst Von Glasersfeld’s Limerick.” (Paper)

Espinosa, Angela and Stuart Umpleby, “Reflections on the New Agoras Project: A Report on a Fuschl Conversation.” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart A., Frank T. Anbari and Karl H. Mueller, “Highly Innovative Research Teams:  The Case of the Biological Computer Laboratory.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Unifying Epistemologies by Combining World, Description and Observer.” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart and Lucy Lim.  “The Spread of Management Ideas and Methods around the World.”  Nase Gospodarstvo (Our Economy), Vol. 53, No. 3-4, 2007, pp. 124-135.  Published in English in a Slovenian journal. (Paper)

2006

Umpleby, Stuart, “Cybernetics.” Prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. (Paper)

Umbleby, Stuart, “The Viable System Model.” Prepared for the International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies. (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Two Methods for Increasing Faculty Governance in Universities: Transcript of an On-line Workshop.” (Transcript)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Cybernetics as a Language for Interdisciplinary Communication.” (Abstract) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Fundamentals and History of Cybernetics:  A Tutorial.”  (Slides 1, 2, 3, 4) (Exercises) (Video)

Tevdovski Dragon, Irina Naoumova, and Stuart Umpleby, “A Method for Designing Improvements in Organizations, Products, and Services.” (Paper) (Appendix)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Quadrant Diagrams, Levels of Conceptualization and Requisite Variety.” (Paper)

Dubina, Igor and Stuart Umpleby, “Agenda Setting and Improvement Monitoring in a University Department.” (Paper)

2005

Umpleby, Stuart, and Lucy Lim, “The Spread of Management Ideas and Methods around the World.” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “How Graduate Students in Management do Projects with Local and International Organizations.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “A History of the Cybernetics Movement in the United States.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, and Pavel Makeyenko, “Using Email in International Student Group Projects.” (Paper)

2004

Medvedeva, Tatyana and Stuart Umpleby, “Four Methods for Describing Systems with Examples of How Management is Changing in the U.S. and Russia.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “What I learned from Heinz von Foerster about the Construction of Science.” (Paper) (Figure 1) (Figure 2) (Figure 3) (Figure 4)

Umpleby, Stuart and Irina Naoumova, “Comparing Priorities in an American Academic Department and a Russian Academic Department.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Religion, Communism, and Science as Conceptual Systems.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, Medvedeva, Tatiana and Oyler, Alisa. “The Technology of Participation as a Means of Improving Universities in Transitional Economies.”  World Futures, Vol. 60, Nos. 1-2, 2004, pp. 129-136.

2003

Anbari, F.T., E.V. Khilkhanova, and M.V. Romanova, and S.A. Umpleby, “Cross Cultural Differences and their Implications for Managing International Projects.”(Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart and Aram Karapetyan, “How a Quality Improvement Priority Matrix Reveals Change in a University Department.” (Short) (Long)

Umpleby, Stuart, Tatyana Medvedeva and Alisa Oyler, “The Technology of Participation as a Means of Improving Universities in Transitional Economies.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart and Svitlana Shandruk, “Transforming the Global University System into a Resource for Social Improvement.” (Paper)

Angela Espinosa and Stuart Umpleby, “Reflections on the New Agoras Project:  A Report on a Fuschl Conversation” (Paper)

Tatiana Medvedeva and Stuart Umpleby, “A Method for Improving the Management of Organizations in Post-Communist Countries.” (Paper)

2002

Umpleby, Stuart, “The Design of Intellectual Movements.” (Paper) (Slides)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Organization of Regulation of the Global Economy.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Should Knowledge of Management Be Organized as Theories or as Methods?” (Paper) (Slides)

2001
Naoumova, Irina and Stuart Umpleby with Natalia Totskaya “Two Methods Useful for Starting a Quality Improvement Program.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Creating and Sustaining a Quality Improvement Effort in a University.” (Paper) (Photos)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Two Kinds of General Theories in Systems Science.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “What Comes After Second Order Cybernetics?” (Paper)

Medvedeva, Tatyana, and Stuart Umpleby, “Psychological Adjustment to Economic and Social Change.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart. “Why the Century Date Change Occurred so Smoothly” (Published version) (Paper)

2000

Umpleby, Stuart, “Knowledge Management from the Perspective of Systems Theory and Cybernetics.” (Paper)

Buck John, Eric Dent, Stuart Umpleby, “Communicating Science: the Difficulty Introduced by the Historical Politics of the English Language.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Coping with an Error in a Knowledge Society: The Case of the Year 2000 Computer Crisis.” (Paper)

1999

Umpleby, Stuart, “Y2K: An ‘Autopsy’ of Modern Society?” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “How the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Might Reenergize Systems Science.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Why We Missed The Year 2000 Computer Problem.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, and Dent, Eric, “The Origins and Purposes of Several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics.” (Paper) (Published Version)

1998

Dent, Eric, and Umpleby, Stuart, “Underlying Assumptions of Several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics.” (Paper)

Gouchthina, Vera and Umpleby, Stuart, “Identifying the Russian Cultural Constitution”. (Paper)

Gouchthina, Vera and Umpleby, Stuart, “Will Russia Become An Industrial or A Post-Industrial Society?” (Paper)

1996

Umpleby, Stuart and Pavel Makeyenko, “A Comparison of the Stability of the Socio-Economic Systems of the United States and Russia.” (Paper)

1995

Umpleby, Stuart, “Lefebvre and Kohlberg on Psychological Adjustment to Economic Change.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart. “On Creating a Great University.” (Paper)

1994

Umpleby, Stuart, “Cybernetics of Conceptual Systems.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “What is to be Done: Learning Democracy While Improving Organizations” (Paper)

1993

Umpleby, Stuart, “The Historical Context of Total Quality Management” (Paper)

Vladimir S. Rapoport, Valeria Ryssina, Stuart A. Umpleby, and William E. Halal, “Managerial Personnel in the Commonwealth of Independent States” (Paper)

1992

Umpleby, Stuart, “Mindwalk:  Systems Practice in Hollywood.” (Paper)

1991

Umpleby, Stuart, “Strategies for Winning Acceptance of Second Order Cybernetics.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart,”The Acceptance of Social Science.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Limericks About Cybernetics” (Paper)

1990

Umpleby, Stuart, “Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values as well as Institutions.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart A. “The Scientific Revolution in Demography.” (Paper)

1989

Umpleby, Stuart, “Methods for Community Development: The Work of the Institute of Cultural Affairs.” (Paper) (Zambia) (Guatemala) (Jamaica)

Umpleby, Stuart, “The Science of Cybernetics and the Cybernetics of Science.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Strategies for Regulating The Global Economy.” (Paper)

1987

Umpleby, Stuart, “World Population: Still Ahead of Schedule.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Some Policy Implications of Lefebvre’s Theory of Ethical Cognition.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart,  “American and Soviet Discussions of the Foundations of Cybernetics and General System Theory.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Science One and Science Two.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, “Three Conceptions of Conversation.” (Paper)

1986

Umpleby, Stuart, “The International Network of Systems Theorists.” (Article)

Umpleby, Stuart A. “Methods for Making Organizations Adaptive.” (Paper)

1981

Umpleby, Stuart A. “Some Implications of Cybernetics for Theories of Social Systems.”

Umpleby, Stuart A. “Systems, Observers and Groups.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research. Toronto, Canada, January 6-9, 1981, pp. 406-409.

1980

Umpleby, Stuart A. “Computer Conference on General Systems Theory: One Year’s Experience.” pp. 55-63 (Paper)

1975 & Earlier

Umpleby, Stuart, 1970, “Exploring the Future with a Computer.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1970, “Citizen Sampling Simulations: A Method for Involving the Public in Social Planning.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1970, “First Skirmishes in the Global Stuggle to Construct the Social Brain.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1970, “A Third Generation Mass Communications System: Its Possible Impact on Social Structures and Process.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1970, “New Communications Technologies and the University.” (Paper)

The Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois Newsletter, Number 1, 1971 (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1971, “Fourth Generation Electronic Mass Communications Media.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1972, Information Theory and Consumer Action. (Paper)

The Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois Newsletter, Number 2, 1972 (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1972, “Is Great Citizen Participation in Planning Possible and Desirable?” (Paper)

The Alternative Futures Project at the University of Illinois Newsletter, Number 3, 1973 (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart, 1974, “On Making a Scientific Revolution.” (Paper)

Umpleby, Stuart A. “The April 1980 Planning Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics” (Paper)

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