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            SURVEY OF CHAOS & COMPLEXITY RESEARCHERS
                  ON PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY

                               by

                      Philip S. Kronenberg
             Center for Public Administration and Policy
                         Virginia Tech
                      philk@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
                       philk@vtvm1.bitnet

                          28 March 1994


What follows is a summary of a global, electronic survey I
recently conducted of researchers using chaos and nonlinear
concepts to study public policy systems. I believe this is the
first such survey ever conducted. My objective was to identify
professional colleagues who are working in this domain and to
provide a tool for others who seek to identify men and women who
share their interests and who wish to extend their efforts at
professional networking.

I want to thank the many professional colleagues who responded to
this survey for both their effort and their encouragement of this
venture as useful to our mutual interests.

My intention here is to "start something" by making this
information available with the hope that interested colleagues
will "run with it" and make contacts that are fruitful for the
enrichment of our collective research enterprise worldwide. My
one regret is that the high response rate was not even higher. In
my own research on public policy I am aware of others, not
included in this survey, who are addressing the nonlinear
dimensions of planning and policy. But I chose to include only
individuals who sent me a response to my electronic call for
information.

This survey is a one-time effort for me; I do not intend to do it
again. Perhaps one of the chaos/complexity networks would like to
take this information and build a larger and more comprehensive
database that would be maintained and updated on a regular basis.
Please accept the present effort as my little gift with that in
mind.

In addition to this summary of 80 of the researchers who
responded to my survey, I have identified a number of electronic
networks on BITNET and Internet that include conferences on
issues of interest to those engaged in inquiry based on chaos,
complexity, and nonlinear orientations and concepts. The
Electronic Conferencing Network List, together with a list of ON-
LINE DATA SOURCES, is located right before the beginning of my
survey summary entries.


                      BACKGROUND OF SURVEY

Back in December 1993, I issued a call on Internet and BITNET
conferencing networks for information from researchers who
applied concepts from chaos, complexity, and evolutionary
theories to the study of planning and public policy. My request
for information was as follows:

     I am attempting to put together a list of scholars who are
     currently working on inquiry about public policy
     development, planning, and the strategic management of
     national institutions ("public" or "private") based on
     concepts drawn from chaos/nonlinear systems, evolutionary
     metaphors and complexity theories, among others.

     My concern is to identify those who use chaos/complexity
     theories, not necessarily to the exclusion of other bodies
     of theory. Most of us come upon chaos/complexity as an
     extension of other theoretical commitments that are more
     central to our work.

     If you or a colleague are engaged in either theory-building
     or substantive analytical studies at a national or
     cross-national level that draw on chaos/complexity (along
     with other related ideas), please let me know:

     -    name, institution, address, telephone, electronic
          address (any or all of these will be helpful!)
     -    brief description of current projects (papers, books,
          articles under development or recently published)
     -    your ontological/epistemological/paradigmatic
          orientation (functionalist, nominalist, positivist,
          Marxist, interpretivist, whatever...)
     -    your primary disciplinary association (sociology,
          economics, political science, anthropology,
          mathematics, psychology, physics, ????)
     -    your primary substantive interests (health, labor,
          international security, education, ????)


Over the past three months I have received some 200 responses
from around the world. Many of those who responded expressed an
interest in learning more about ways to bring chaos and
complexity theories into their research but were not yet engaged
in actually using these concepts; the names of these colleagues
were excluded from this summary because I sought to provide a
listing of those who are actively using nonlinear ideas and
orientations. The 80 entries found in this summary reflect active
users of these ideas. Another small group of persons who
responded to my survey consisted of those who were actively
involved in using chaos/complexity ideas but did not provide me
with any information about themselves that was responsive to my
survey questions; regrettably, I could not include them because
their information was incomplete.

I want to acknowledge, with deep appreciation, the enthusiastic
and thoughtful help that I received during this project from Jane
Misheloff, Virginia Tech Ph.D. student and graduate research
assistant extraordinaire.



                     SCOPE OF SURVEY RESULTS

There are researchers representing 13 countries listed in the
survey below:

               Australia      Greece
               Austria        Israel
               Belgium        Italy
               Brazil         Norway
               Canada         Sweden
               Finland        United States
               Germany


Copies of this survey summary have been distributed to all the
entrants in the summary. I also have distributed copies of the
survey summary to individuals who responded to my survey call but
who were not included in the entrants because they were not
actively using chaos/complexity concepts in their research; in
almost every case these researchers planned to get more actively
involved in using chaos/complexity theories in their future
research work.

The content of the survey summary entries for each researcher
represents an editing effort on our part. There was a tremendous
variety of responses from the researchers who answered my survey.
In order to provide potential users of the summary with the kind
of information we thought they would need to extend their
networking efforts, we decided to reduce all entries to a
specific set of categories. We hope the results are useful and
that professional colleagues around the world who responded will
find that they are not misrepresented by our efforts to edit
their survey responses. However, I cannot guarantee "total
satisfaction" on this point.


                      GOPHER AND ftp ACCESS

This survey summary will be available sometime in April on the
Virginia Tech host computer using either anonymous ftp or GOPHER.
An announcement of its availability will be sent to survey
contributors and other electronic network conferencing lists when
it comes on line.



    ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING NETWORKS AND ON-LINE DATA SOURCES

The following electronic conferences--or "lists"--are some of the
more prominent networks that are available to those interested in
using ideas of chaos and complexity. Each has its own particular
character and the brief descriptions I have provided hint at but
do not do justice to the variability and richness that awaits the
potential member.

Are there other networks out there in the Internet of possible
interest to us? Absolutely! I make no claim to have provided you
with a comprehensive or exhaustive list. Rather, my purpose is to
help you as colleagues make some initial contacts.

This list does not exhaust the range of possible sources on the
Internet of help and colleagueship in the exploration of chaos
and complexity inquiry; as these nonlinear orientations become
more widespread, many other electronic conferences will emerge
that provide support for such inquiry. For example, one sees in
the field of economics interest in chaos and complexity issues
raised from time-to-time in networks such as the PROGRESSIVE
ECONOMISTS NETWORK (subscribe yourfullname to pen-l-
request@bobby.ecst.csuchico.edu), the POST KEYNESIAN THOUGHT
Network (subscribe pkt yourfullname to
listproc@csf.colorado.edu), and the INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL
ECONOMY NETWORK (subscribe ipe yourfullname to
listproc@csf.colorado.edu).

The following networks are briefly described and the electronic
addresses for joining are listed below each entry.

In many cases, these networks maintain archives of their
conferencing files--and sometimes other useful research
resources--which can be accessed by GOPHER or anonymous ftp,
usually using the address of the listserver node name (e.g.,
those who wish to get GOPHER access to THE INTERNATIONAL
POLITICAL NETWORK would issue the command "GOPHER
csf.colorado.edu"--without the quotation marks--and then select
the "International Political Economy" option from the menu).

These networks and their activities are listed here with the
clear caution that their operations and Internet addresses are
subject to rapid change (new conferencing networks--or
subnetworks that they spawn--appear weekly and, of course, a few
turn moribund or experience lapses of activity) and that their
utility for any given researcher is a function of that
researchers interests and the quality of conference "traffic" at
any given point in time. My purpose here is to introduce new
colleagues to each other and not to serve as a channel of user
support (that is the task of the list owner and support staff at
the host listserver) or endorsement of specific networks.

I clearly and firmly decline the privilege of providing on-line
support to Internet users of the networks I have listed below. If
a reader of this survey summary finds that there is an error in
my instructions or survey materials--due either to our error or
to subsequent changes in the "world" (its a complex, nonlinear
place, ya know!!), please let me know about the specific error
and I will correct this survey summary file in the Virginia Tech
GOPHER so that other, subsequent colleagues who acquire this
summary will not be subject to the error. Otherwise, caveat
emptor!



    ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING NETWORKS ON CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY


1. AUTOPOIESIS LIST

     Membership in the Autopoietic Discussion Group list may be
     obtained by sending a request to subscribe to Kent Palmer
     <palmer@world.std.com>.

     One can get access to the archived Autopoiesis List
     newsletters, bibliographies, and discussion files of a range
     of philosophical groups by using GOPHER access to
     world.std.com (and then selecting OBI The Online Book
     Initiative, The Online Books, Zines, and then Thinknet--in
     turn) or by using anonymous ftp access to world.std.com and
     then change directory to obi/Zines/Thinknet.


2. CHAOPSYC    listproc@moose.uvm.edu

     subscribe chaopsyc yourfirstname yourlastname

     CHAOPSYC is the electronic conference of the Society for
     Chaos in Psychology and the Life Sciences, hosted by the
     University of Vermont.

     While there is no charge to join CHAOPSYC, there is a
     membership fee of $25 ($10 for students and limited income)
     for joining the Society (send to Katherine Robertson,
     Secretary-Treasurer, The Society for Chaos Theory in
     Psychology and the Life Sciences, P.O. Box 7226, Alhambra,
     CA 91802, USA). The Society holds annual conferences and
     hosts workshops on nonlinear methods.


3. COMPLEX SYSTEMS OPEN FORUM    listserv@life.anu.edu.au

     subscribe complex yourfirstname yourlastname

     This list, based at Australian National University, seeks to
     help researchers interested in complex systems keep in touch
     with each other with respect to topics including: artificial
     life, cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals,
     genetic algorithms, learning systems, neural networks,
     nonlinear dynamics, parallel computation, percolation, self-
     organization, and more.



4. FRAC-L listserv@gitvm1.bitnet or listserv@gitvm1.gatech.edu

     subscribe frac-l yourfirstname yourlastname


     FRAC-L is a forum for the discussion of computergraphical
     generation of "fractals" and a general dialogue on fractals
     and chaos.



5. NONLIN-L  listserv@list.nih.gov

     subscribe nonlin-l yourfirstname yourlastname

     NONLIN-L is the Economic Nonlinear Dynamics list.






6. CHAOS NETWORK

     The Chaos Network is an association of academics,
     consultants, business people and others exploring the
     application of chaos/complexity theory to social systems.
     This international association has over 400 members and has
     been in operation over six years.

     This is the only network in my survey that charges a fee to
     join it as an Internet participant in its electronic
     conferences. A subscription (membership) to the Chaos
     Network cost $79 in the US, $95 international, and $49 for
     full-time US students. The subscription includes: a
     quarterly newsletter (20+pages), access to The Chaos Network
     Computer Conference (a part of the Meta Network), a $100
     discount on registration to the annual conference (Sept 28 -
     Oct 1, 1994 in Denver, 1995 in Toronto), and discounts on
     chaos/complexity related books, software, etc. Mark Michaels
     of People Technologies, 200 Lincoln Square, P.O. Box 4100,
     Urbana, IL 61801, (217)328-0032 (voice and fax),
     chaos@tmn.com, is the owner/manager of The Chaos Network.



          HOW TO JOIN ELECTRONIC CONFERENCING NETWORKS

Because The Chaos Network is a for-fee operation, a message to
join must be sent, with the fee, directly to the network manager,
Mark Michaels.

But most networks, "lists," or conferences do not require fees
and can be joined by direct electronic subscription that is
computer-automated by a "listserver" or "listprocessor" and does
not even require any intervention by its human "listowner,"
manager, or system operator(SYSOP). A few non-fee networks are
"moderated" and your request to join will be reviewed by the
human list manager before you will be granted access.


Typically, one joins these conferences by sending the following
message:

   SUBSCRIBE listname yourfirstname yourlastname

to the appropriate listserver or listprocessor.

For example, let us assume that I wanted to join the discussion
list of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life
Sciences ("CHAOPSYC list") that is "owned" by the listprocessor
"moose.uvm.edu". The appropriate message for me to send to
listproc@moose.uvm.edu  would be:

   subscribe CHAOPSYC Philip Kronenberg


                      ON-LINE DATA SOURCES



1. Complex Systems Information Service, Australian National
University           Bioinformatics Facility (ANUBF)

     Provides GOPHER and anonymous ftp access at: life.anu.edu.au

     Directories and files are available in:
     /pub/complex_systems

     This folder contains bibliographies, information, papers and
     software about complex systems. It includes material
     originating from ANU's Complex Systems Group, as well as
     mirrors of complex systems archives found elsewhere in the
     world.


     CSIS programs focus on properties and behavior of complex
     biological systems emerging from non-linearity or
     interactions between components.
     Relevant topics include: artificial life, biocomplexity,
     cellular automata, chaos, criticality, fractals, iterative
     function systems, learning systems, L-systems, neural nets,
     non-linear dynamics, percolation, self-organization.



2. Santa Fe Institute anonymous ftp access at: santafe.edu


     Directories and files are available in 'pub' directory. Type
      cd pub

     The Santa Fe Institute offers scholars free subscriptions to
     its THE BULLETIN OF THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE, accepts
     applications for short-term research visitors (SFI conducts
     a variety of lectures and colloquia over the year), sponsors
     an annual "Complex Systems Summer School" for graduate
     students and postdoctoral fellows, and publishes a number of
     working papers and other documents. Director of Programs is
     Ginger Richardson, Santa Fe Institute, 1660 Old Pecos Trail,
     Suite A, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, VOICE: 505-984-8800,
     FAX: 505-982-0565, <grr@santafe.edu>


3. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) anonymous ftp access
at:
          parcftp.xerox.com

     Directories and files are available in 'pub' directory. Type
      cd pub




                   SUMMARY OF SURVEY RESPONSES

The following survey summary entries are based on responses from
chaos/complexity researchers around the world. Are there more
researchers working in these fields than represented by the 80
individuals reported in this summary? You bet!

Are there errors in the entries? Probably, although we did our
best to minimize them by multiple proofing runs. We apologize to
"misrecorded" colleagues. If you will send me corrections I will
see that the appropriate revisions are made and see to it that
this file on the Virginia Tech GOPHER is corrected
(unfortunately, we will not be able to update an entry in order
to add new information that was not in the original response to
the survey). Of course, some errors that you find will be due to
the time sensitivity of the information. Also, there were many
cases where individuals neglected to provide specific types of
information (highest academic degree, position title, snail mail
address, etc.). In such cases, of course, the information is
missing from their entry. Again, I will correct errors but I will
not add new information that was not in the original response to
our survey.

Please note that, in a small number of cases, there is no BITNET
or Internet address listed. This is not an error. At the time the
survey summary was compiled these individuals had no e-mail
address or chose not to make it available. We will not be able to
provide support for inquiries in cases where information is
missing or the entries originally given to us are no longer
correct. We do not have the resources to do anything beyond
correcting our own errors as of the final entry date (16 March
1994) for this survey summary. We are not in the database
maintenance business.

******************************************************************
*******
__________________________________________________________________
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Aam, Onar                                 onar@hsr.no
Hoyehaugen 46
4027 Stavanger
NORWAY

FIELD: Philosophy.  ORIENTATION:  Kuhnian realist.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Currently writing a book about the 
education
system of all western countries.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Abeles, Tom                               chaos02@tmn.com
President                                 VOICE:  (612) 823-3154
Tom Abeles and Associates                 FAX: (612) 825-6865
3704 11th Ave, South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA                                       Ph.D., Chemistry

FIELD:  General systems and nonlinear complex dynamics.

INTERESTS:  Applications of chaos theory in the area of decision 
making and
modeling in the areas of agriculture and the environment.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Workshop at June 1993 World 
Futures Society
meeting on applications of chaos theory to futures and planning.  
Working on
two articles on (1) the application of chaos theory to 
agricultural futures
and (2) issues of environmental design.  "Is Preservation 
Inventing the Past
or Creating the Future," (forthcoming) in "Futures" June 1994.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Akerson, John                             ja40@conrad.appstate.edu  
or
P. O. Box 18504                           
rs_carrollma@conrad.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC  28608
USA

FIELD:  Philosophy

INTERESTS:  Complexity theory and its implications.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Papers on Complexity and Economic 
Theory;
Complexity and Consequentialist Ethics and Complexity and the 
Problem of
Induction.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Atchison, David L.                        
70144.1237@CompuServe.COM
Ph.D. Student
University of Utah

INTERESTS:  Evolution of complex social (economic) systems.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Dissertation:  Exploring the 
Formation and
Stability of Strategic Groups:  A Synthesis of Strategic Groups 
and Population
Ecology. (forthcoming).
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Aula, Pekka                               aula@valt.helsinki.fi
M.S., Ph.D. Student                       aula@cc.helsinki.fi
Department of Communication               VOICE:  +-358-0-191 2105
Faculty of Social Sciences
Helsinki University, Finland
PL 33
FIN-00014 (Helsingin yliopisto)

FIELD:  Communication studies.

INTERESTS:  Philosophy of communications; organizational 
(community
communication; interpersonal (interactive) communication.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Working on Ph.D. thesis about 
communication
and chaos theory.  Will present a paper at the 6th Conference of 
Communication
Research, 1994, Helsinki.  Article on Finnish communication 
journal
Tiedotustukimus (will be published in March 1994).
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Autio, Erkko                              etautio@vipunen.hut.fi
Faculty                                   VOICE:  + 358 0 4 513 
087
Helsinki University of Technology         FAX:  + 358 0 4 513 095
Institute of Industrial Management
Otakaari 1 F, FIN - 02
150 Espoo, FINLAND                        Licentiate in Technology 
(Dr. Ing.)

FIELD:  Industrial management.  ORIENTATION:  Positivistic 
approach with some
interpretivist and conceptual flavor.

INTERESTS:  Focus on mainly new, technology-based companies and 
their role as
agents of technology transfer in industrial innovation networks.  
Generally
interested in industrial technological systems and their evolution 
over time.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Authored numerous published papers 
in his
field, including The role of spin-off companies as agents of 
technology
transfer:  An empirical study of the spin-off companies of the 
Technical
Research Center of Finland.  Forthcoming: "New, technology-based 
companies as
agents of R&D and innovation," TECHNOVATION; and (with E. Ahola 
and T.
Loikkanen) "Technology transfer effects of alternative technology 
transfer
channels: An empirical study," Technical Research Center of 
Finland.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Beam, David R.                            DaveBeam@aol.com
Associate Professor of                    VOICE:  312 906-5196
Public Administration
Illinois Institute of Technology
Downtown Campus
565 West Adams
Chicago IL  60661-3691
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  (1) Application of evolutionary perspectives to public 
policy
development and (2) intergovernmental relations.  Co-authored book 
on tax
reform.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Beyer, Janice M.                          
JBeyer@UTXVM.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
Management Department, CBA 4.202          VOICE:  512 471-8825
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
USA

FIELD:  Management/sociology.  ORIENTATION:  Eclectic, currently 
interpretive

INTERESTS:  Formal organizations.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Recently completed a paper with 
colleagues at
UT on the SEMATECH, the consortium in the semiconductor industry, 
that uses
complexity theory as a framework for explaining the evolution of 
cooperation
of firms within that industry in founding SEMATECH and 
subsequently.
"Structuring Cooperative Standards in a Competitive Industry:  The 
First Six
Years of SEMATECH" with Larry D. Browning and Judy C. Shetler.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Bigum, Chris                              cj@deakin.edu.au
Centre for Studies of                     PHONE: +61 52 271493
  Education and Change                    FAX: +61 52 272014
Deakin University
Geelong, Victoria 3217
AUSTRALIA

FIELD:  Sociology/cultural studies.  ORIENTATION:  Left.

INTERESTS:  Education.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Have used non-linear science in 
terms of
curriculum, schooling and educational administration.  
Publications include:
(1) Bigum, Chris and Bill Green (1993), "Changing Classrooms, 
Computing and
Curriculum: Critical Perspectives and Cautionary Notes", 
Australian
Educational Computing, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 6-16.; (2) Green, B. and 
C. Bigum
(1990), "Quantum Curriculum and Chaotic Classrooms: Re-Framing 
educational
Computing" in Anne McDougall & Carolyn Dowling IFIP Fifth World 
Conference on
Computers in Education, Sydney, North-Holland, pp. 369-374 and 
Bigum, Chris
(1990), "Postmodern curriculum: the mathematical basis; or, who 
was Kurt Godel
anyway?" in Richard Noss, Andrew Brown, Paul Dowling, Pat Drake, 
Mary Harris,
Celia Hoyles & Steig Mellin-Olsen (eds.) Political Dimensions of 
Mathematics
Education: action & critique, London, Institute of Education, 
University of
London.  Forthcoming:  Green, Bill and Chris Bigum (1993), 
"Governing Chaos:
Postmodern Science, Information Technology, and Educational 
Administration",
Discourse.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Boudourides, Moses A.                      
boudourides@xanthi.cc.duth.gr
Department of Mathematics
Democritus University of Thrace
67100 Xanthi
GREECE

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Working on the mathematical 
problems of the
chaos/fractals/complexity theories and I'd be interested in the 
topics
suggested in your posting.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Braman, Sandra                            BRAMAN@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
Assistant Professor of Communications     VOICE:  217 244-1419
Institute of Communications Research      FAX:  (217) 244-7695
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
222B Armory
505 E. Armory Drive
Champaign, IL 61820                       Ph.D.
USA

FIELD:  Communications

INTERESTS:  Information policy, economics of information, and the 
implications
of chaos theory.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Working for a while on chaos and 
complexity as
they influence our understanding of communications, and developing 
a theory of
the state from this perspective, for the purposes ultimately of 
moving the
literature on the state forward.  Presenting a paper on the 
"Network State"
next summer at the International Political Science Association in 
Berlin), and
to contribute to the analysis and making of communications policy.  
A very
general first piece currently in press in JASIS (J of the Am 
Society of
Information Scientists).
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Coleman, Stephen                          
stephen.coleman@state.mn.us
Minnesota Department of Revenue           VOICE: (612)297-1826
10 River Park Plaza
St. Paul, MN 55146                        Ph.D.

FIELD:  Political Science.

INTERESTS:  Voting, political parties and consequent public policy 
effects of
nonlinear social behavior.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Applications of nonlinear models 
and chaos
theory to voting and political party system dynamics.  "Cycles and 
Chaos in
Political Party Voting," Journal of Mathematical Sociology (1993), 
Vol. 18:
47-64.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Comfort, Louise K.                        louise@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Public and             VOICE: 412 648-7606
   International Affairs                  FAX:   412 648-2605
University of Pittsburgh
3E31 Forbes Quadrangle
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD: political science, public policy and administration
ORIENTATION: Action research, studying actual complex systems and,
based on research findings, propose performance improvement 
recommen-
dations in terms of efficiency, effectiveness, and equity in the
public interest.

INTERESTS: Rapidly evolving response and recovery systems that 
cross
organizational, disciplinary, and jurisdictional boundaries in 
disaster
environments as a 'laboratory' for the study of complex systems.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Currently conducting field research 
in
Southern California on "Self Organization in Disaster Response: 
The
Northridge Earthquake of January 17, 1994" supported by the 
National
Science Foundation. Recently completed field research in India on 
the
Maharashtra earthquake of September 30, 1993  Also working on the 
design
of an interdisciplinary, computerized information system to 
support
policy and planning for international disaster management in 
developing
countries. Published "Integrating Information Technology into 
Interna-
tional Crisis Management and Policy," JOURNAL OF CONTINGENCIES AND 
CRISIS
MANAGEMENT, March 1993. Forthcoming publications: "Risk and 
Futures,"
JCCM, Sep, 1994; co-editor of Proceedings, UN Interregional 
Seminar on
International Disaster Management, Jakarta, Dec. 13-17, 1993; 
"Self-
Organization in Complex Systems," JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
RESEARCH AND THEORY, July 1994; and a book-length work INITIATING
CHANGE: THEORY AND PRACTICE.

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Craiger, J. Philip                        Craiger@nprdc.navy.mil
Navy Personnel Research and               VOICE:  619 553-7961
  Development Center
Organizational Systems Department
53335 Ryne Rd.
San Diego, CA   92152-7250
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Industrial/organizational psychology, social psychology.

INTERESTS:  Understanding the organizational systems components 
and
concomitant behavior that contributes to the "unpredictability" of 
global
system/organizational behavior.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Application of nonlinear dynamical 
systems
theory to organizational systems.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Dandridge, Thomas C.                      TCD19@ALBANY.ALBANY.EDU
School of Business                        OFFICE: (518) 442-4914
University at Albany, SUNY                FAX:  (518) 442-4765
Albany, NY 12222
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  Entrepreneurial behavior.  Also the general topic of 
non-linearity
and chaos in relation to entrepreneurship, economic development 
and public
policy.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Daneke, Gregory A.
Professor of Public Affairs, Business     VOICE:  (602) 965-1032
  Administration and Environmental        FAX:    (602) 965-9248
  Studies
School of Public Affairs
Arizona State University
Box 870603
Tempe, AZ 85287-0603                      Ph.D.

FIELD:  Policy science.

INTERESTS:  Energy, resource and technology policy, strategic 
management, non-
linear dynamical systems theory and multi-cultural management.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Currently organizing a conference 
on
"Applications of Non-linear Dynamical Systems Theory to Practical 
Policy and
Management."  He is completing a book on this topic.
__________________________________________________________________
____________

Deceuninck, Wim                           wdec@banruc60.bitnet
Ph.D. Student                             wdec@ruca.ac.be
University of Antwerp (RUCA)              VOICE:  + 32 3 218 06 84
Middelheimlaan 1
B -2020 Antwerp
BELGIUM

FIELD:  Economics.  ORIENTATION:  "whatever."

INTERESTS:  Micro-economics, economic time series.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Am investigating the possibilities 
for a Ph.D.
in economics on chaos theory; however, so far very weak 
"empirical" evidence
is found for the existence of chaos in economic data, which makes 
me doubt on
the possibilities for a Ph.D.
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Degenhardt, Peter
Forststr. 18                              VOICE:  06371/18608
66849 Landstuhl                           FAX:  06371/15199
GERMANY                                   Ph.D.

Senior advisor to member of the German Federal Parliament.

FIELD:  Political science and sociology.  ORIENTATION:  Very 
pragmatic; not
committed to a certain theoretical initial step.  Successful is 
what works and
what might effect some practical political advice.

INTERESTS:  Political conflict research from the standpoint of 
non-linear
dynamics.  Above all, interested in the probable prediction of 
political
and/or military conflicts with regard to the study of the 
respective state of
the concerned societies.  For example, I am interested in how it 
is possible
to predict critical developments with considerable effects like 
those in
Bosnia-Herzegovina by an analysis from the standpoint of non-
linear dynamics.
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Delaughter, Tom                           tdelaug@freenet.fsu.edu
Ph.D. Candidate at                        VOICE:  904 671-2255
Florida State University
600 Victory Garden Drive, H-60
Tallahassee, FL 32301
USA

INTERESTS:  The application of principles from physics to 
strategic
management.
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Dore, Mohammed                            dore@adam.econ.brockU.ca
Department of Economics                   VOICE:  416 688 5550, 
ext 3578
Brock University                          FAX:  (416) 988 9388
St Catharines, ONT CANADA L2S 3A1

FIELD:  Economics.  ORIENTATION:  Reject both (a) utilitarianism 
and (b)
methodological individualism--because they both stink!  Wouldn't 
call myself
Marxist, though I am not hostile to it either.

INTERESTS:  Nonlinear analysis in general, but I am also critical 
of some
"forced" reinterpretation  of chaos-like functions into economics.  
Some of
Richard Day's work is of this sort.  Also interested in 
environmental
economics and ethics.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  I am using nonlinear analysis in 
two areas:
business cycles, and intertemporal sustainable development.

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Eoyang, Glenda Holladay                   eoyang@delphi.com
President                                 VOICE: 612-783-1405
Chaos Limited                             FAX:   612-379-3924
50 East Golden Lake Road
Circle Pines, MN 55014

President, Excel Instruction, Inc., Minneapolis, MN

FIELD: science education, computer science, business management,
organization development

INTERESTS: Pragmatic applications of the principles of chaos and
complexity science to real organizational issues and problems.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Design and develop technical 
training and
documentation programs for financial, transportation, high 
technology,
and medical industry; manage an organization of 25 persons who 
these
programs. Consult with client corporations on training strategies 
and
management approaches. Provide teacher training for primary and 
secondary
schools implementing the Paideia program. Contribute articles and 
deliver
presentations on applications of chaos science to organizational 
manage-
ment in sessions sponsored by Association of Computer Training and
Support, Association for Women in Computing, the World Federation 
of
Futurists, the American Society of Training and Development, and 
the
Chaos Network Conference, among others. Chapter "Boardrooms of the
Future: The Fractal Nature of Organizations," in book FRACTALS IN 
THE
FUTURE, forthcoming 1994.

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Este, Bob                                 beste@cln.etc.bc.ca
District Enrichment Teacher               VOICE: 604-774-2591
School District #81 (Fort Nelson)         FAX:   604-774-2598
P. O. Box 87
Fort Nelson,
British Columbia   V0C 1R0
CANADA


FIELD:  Interdisciplinary studies, clinical psychology and 
counseling, and
then educational administration, specializing in policy systems 
and policy
analysis.  ORIENTATION:  Theoretical organizational systems;
phenomenologist/analyst.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Proposed Ph.D. title:  Innovation 
Diffusion
and the Edge of Chaos in Complex Adaptive Systems:  An Analysis of 
Six Policy
Process Case Studies (U. of Southampton, UK)  Can common elements 
be
identified in the policy processes of innovative organizations, 
and, if so,
can these elements be assembled into a new conceptual model that 
can account
for and allow us to influence and better predict the effectiveness 
of the
diffusion of innovation in governance systems?
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Fabbri, Paolo M.                          econ04@ipruniv
Istituto di Scienze Economiche            
econ04@ipruniv.cce.unipr.it
Universita' di Parma                      VOICE: +39 521 902 433
via J. F. Kennedy, 6                      FAX:   +39 521 902 402
43100 Parma (ITALIA)

FIELD:  Economics.

INTERESTS:  Environmental control theory from the economist's 
point of view.
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Falcone, David J.                         falcone@lasalle.edu
La Salle University                       VOICE:  215 951-1270
Department of Psychology
Philadelphia, PA 19141
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  Kinds of people doing chaos/complexity work.
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Gagnon, Stephane                          GagnonS@pol.istc.ca
Economist                                 VOICE: 613-954-3549
Policy Integration                        FAX:   613-952-1374
Industry Canada
Room 570-A
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
K1A 0H5                                   M.P.A.

FIELD: economics, international politics, and public 
administration

INTERESTS: economic development policy, comparative industrial 
policy,
strategic planning

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Papers:  "Technological change in 
evolutionary
economic theories," "Impacts of globalization on technological 
development
strategies of small advanced countries," "Managing the theory-
policy nexus"
and "Strategies for organizational change in managing economic and
technological development policies." "Theoretical synthesis on the 
organic
state" will be the complete review of my concept, from the context 
and forces
underlying the emergence of this idea as a response to current 
policy crises;
its sources in the demise of the post-modernist philosophical 
framework and
the rise of an organic metaphor integrating new forms of trust and 
cooperation
in social sciences, opposite to dialectical processes; the 
comparative nature
in history of the organic state, especially as contrasted to its 
similar but
very different case, the liberal state; an analysis of the 
functions of the
organic state within advanced societies; description of the 
structure of the
emerging organization of this state and its factors in transition; 
the
strategies and policies for change which shall emerge under its 
umbrella; and
the future evolution and critique of the concept. Current projects 
at
Industry Canada: Future analytical design for local economic 
development,
International network for comparative policy analysis and 
management, and
Strategic innovative research extension network.


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Garriott, Gary                            LEO satellite: gary 
garriott@vita
Director, Infomatics                      Fidonet: 1:109/165
Volunteers in Technical Assistance        garyg@vita.org, 
ggarriott@vita.org
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 500      
gary.garriott@f165.n109.z1.fidonet.org
Arlington, VA 22209                       (703) 276-1800
USA                                       FAX:  (703) 243-1865

(Non-Profit)

INTERESTS:  International relief and development.  Also, direct 
application in
terms of "modeling" or in applying the concept of strange 
attractors to
countries/situations where efforts may or may not be successful.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Githeko, Jason M.                         j-githeko@uiuc.edu
Ph.D. Student                             (217) 244-3573
1310 S. 6th, #345
Champaign, IL 61820
USA

FIELD:  Cross Discipline.

INTERESTS:  Information exchange via computers and computer 
networks.  I Am
working from a communication theory foundation.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Am attempting to develop an 
autopoietic
perspective of development (as in national development).
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Goerner, Sally J.                         
goerner@gibbs.oit.unc.edu
Triangle Center for the Study of          VOICE/FAX: 919-932-5547
  Complex Systems
374 Wesley Court
Chapel Hill, NC  27516
USA                                       Ph.D.

Dr. Goerner is currently President, The Society for Chaos Theory 
in Psychology
and the Life Sciences.

FIELD:  Computer science and psychology.  ORIENTATION:  
"Ecological" or a
Chaologist, a evolutionary theorist, system's theorist.

INTERESTS:  Chaos, complexity and general evolution (molecules 
through
hierarchical civilization as increasing levels of ordered 
complexity).

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Have published approx. 14 articles 
on chaos
topics.  Have a book coming out, CHAOS AND THE EVOLVING ECOLOGICAL 
UNIVERSE,
Gordon & Breach Science publishers, that synthesizes the work done 
in this
area across fields, the goal is to show them as all part of one 
piece. Long
term goal of this research is to help change society's perception 
of how
things work and thus change what people do.  Also working on (1) 
an article
summarizing this work and its implications for psychology and (2) 
a popular
book called LIFE IN THE LEARNING UNIVERSE summarizing my work for 
your general
well-educated lay person.
__________________________________________________________________
__________

Goldschlager, Leslie                      
les@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
Dept. of Computer Science
Monash University
Clayton 3168
AUSTRALIA

FIELD:  Computer Science.  ORIENTATION:  Our bias/school is due to 
the
methodologies we employ (because we are expert in them) from the 
Computer
Science culture.

INTERESTS:  Computational Complexity Theory, Human-Computer 
Interfaces (Les
Goldschlager) Genetic Algorithms, Inductive Inference (Rohan 
Baxter).

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  A Credit Theory of Money and 
Monetary
Institutions.  Theory begins with canonical transactions and then 
built on
from there using some evolutionary type arguments. Complexity 
issues arise in
attempts to predict monetary system behaviour. Aim is for better 
model of
monetary phenomena allowing better understanding of inflation 
control, bank
regulation, interest rates etc.  Publications include Technical 
Report No.
93/183 (May 1993) Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University and 
forthcoming
"The Loans Standard Model of Credit Money", with R. A. Baxter in 
Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, Spring 1994.
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___________
Goldstein, Jeffrey                        
goldstein@auvax1.adelphi.edu
Department of Administrative Sciences     VOICE: 516-877-4637
Adelphi University                        FAX:   516-877-4607
Garden City, NY 11530
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS: nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, organization 
development

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Published a number of papers in 
recent
years on chaos theory applied to the study of organizational 
change and
organization development in The Organization Development Journal 
and the
journal Organizational Dynamics, as well as in chapters in several 
books
and the newsletters or conference proceedings of The Chaos Network 
and
the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences. 
A book,
The Unshackled Organization: Facing the Challenge of 
Unpredictability
Through Spontaneous Reorganization, is scheduled to be published 
in 1994.

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___


Guastello, Stephen J.                     
6155guastell@vms.cd.mu.edu
Department of Psychology                  VOICE: 414-288-6900
Marquette University                             414-524-9596
Milwaukee, WI  53233                      FAX:   414-288-5333
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD: industrial/organizational psychology and human factors 
engineering
ORIENTATION: "dynamicist"

INTERESTS: Social processes in organizations; occupational health 
and
safety; methodological advances; creativity.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Published journal articles on 
nonlinear
dynamics back to 1981. Heavily involved in research for articles 
and
conference papers on dynamics since 1987,including: articles on 
butterfly
catastrophe model of motivation; progress in catastrophe theory; 
applica-
tions of catastrophe modeling; catastrophe theory-based 
forecasting of
health disorders; relationship among chaos theory, organization 
theory,
and organization development; and analysis of NYSE prices and 1987 
crash
using catastrophe and chaos theory in JOURNAL OF APPLIED 
PSYCHOLOGY,
PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN, and BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE, among others.
Book in progress on CHAOS, CATASTROPHE, AND HUMAN AFFAIRS for 
Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates.


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Hameri, Ari-Pekka                         aph@cs.hut.fi
Institute of Industrial Automation        PHONE:  +358-0-451 3643
Helsinki University of Technology         FAX: +358-0-451 3665
Otakaari 1, FIN-02150 Espoo
FINLAND                                   Ph.D.

FIELD:  Industrial management, including technological 
development, CAD/CAM,
management, media technologies, manufacturing processes.  
ORIENTATION:
Partially positivist in Popperian sense.

INTERESTS:  Developing national and spatial models of 
technological and
industrial development.  The approach I use is an evolutionary one 
and aims to
explain why things are the way they are and how they will develop 
in the near
future.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Studying the growth of knowledge 
intensive
places (technology parks, industrial locations, etc.) using 
nonlinear models
stemming from an evolutionary approach. One objective of the 
project is to
build it in such manner that it fosters joint European research.
Dissertation:  Technical Change, Innovations and Technological 
Causality - An
Empirical and Philosophical Enquiry, Acta Polytechnica 
Scandinavica,
Mathematics and Computer Science Series, Helsinki, 1993.  
Publication:
"Technological Development Through Structural Evolution - A simple 
simulation
model" paper represented at the workshop on New Developments in 
Technology
Studies: Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory, Amsterdam, 6-8 
May 1993.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Hamilton, Patti                           F_2hamilton@twu.edu
Texas Woman's University                  VOICE:  817 898-2401
PO Box 23026                              FAX:  817 898-2437
Denton, Texas 76204
USA                                       Ph.D. and R.N.

FIELD:  Health Care.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Am working with a team of 
mathematicians,
physicists and computer scientists to identify patterns in births 
to teens in
Texas from 1964-1990.  Also on the project team we have consulting 
geographers
and sociologists.  Our aim is to construct a model of the 
phenomenon which
appears to be chaotic in nature. With a complex model we hope to 
be able to
demonstrate the variety of outcomes which might occur as the 
result of various
policy decisions.  We have two papers being reviewed by journals 
at this time
but they deal more with the diagnostics indicating chaos.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Hartikainen, Timo                         
thartikainen@silvia.helsinki.fi or
Ph.D. Student                             
hartikainen@cc.helsinki.fi
University of Helsinki timo               PHONE:  +358 0 191 7736
Dept. of Forest Economics                 FAX:  +358 0 191 7729
P.O.Box 24
FIN-00014 UNIV. OF HELSINKI
FINLAND

FIELD:  Forest sciences and marketing.

ORIENTATION:  Uncertain.

INTERESTS:  Natural resources/forest, demand for forest products, 
changes in
society that affect consumption patterns.
Projects:

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Learning to use scenario method 
developed in
France by M. Godet and associates.  Planning to continue work with 
soft
systems methodology (P. Checkland) and to try it with the human 
activity
system within Finnish forest sector/sawmilling industry.  Taking 
courses at
the Finland Futures Research Centre.  A poster abstract of thesis 
for Ph.
Lic., PROSPECTIVE MARKET SCENARIOS FOR WOOD PRODUCTS, will appear 
in January
in the proceedings of conference "Globalization of Wood" by Forest 
Products
Society (WI, USA).
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___________

Hill, Walter W.                           
Walter_W_HILL@umail.umd.edu
Political Science Department              wh37@umail.umd.edu
University of North Carolina              VOICE:  (919) 962-0416
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265
USA

FIELD:  Political Science.

ORIENTATION:  Positivist???

INTERESTS:  International Relations.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Recently looked at a modified 
version of an
arms race model which appeared to produce a strange attractor.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Hunt, Ben                                 Hunt@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Assistant Professor of Politics           VOICE: 212-998-8503
New York University                       FAX: 212-995-4184
715 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY  10003
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Political Science.

INTERETS:  International security.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Model of crisis behavior as 
nonlinear system.
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___________

Huston, Jan                               
jhuston@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
Ph.D. Student                             VOICE:  808 737-9585 or 
956-2888
Associate                                 FAX:  808 956-2889
Hawaii Research Center for
  Futures Studies
Porteus 720
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
USA

FIELD:  Future studies and political science.

INTERESTS:  Future studies, democratic politics, and evolutionary 
systems.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Recently presented a paper at the 
Brandenburg
Colloquium of Evolutionary Theory.  Author of paper entitled 
"Evolutionary
Systems Theory and Parapolitics."
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___________

Isomaki, Heikki M.                        heikki.isomaki@hut.fi
Institute of Computational Dynamics ICD   TELEX: 125161 HTKK SF
Fac. Information Technology               FAX: +358 0 465077
Main Bldg. Y329
Helsinki University of Technology HUT/TKK
FIN-02150 ESPOO 15
FINLAND                                   Ph.D.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Publications include TRANSIENT 
CHAOS WITH
TRANGENCIES with M. Franaszek, Physical Review A43, 4231-4236 
(1991); CHAOS
AND FRACTALS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS with S.-P. Kantola in 
Singular
Behavior and Nonlinear Dynamics, Vol. 1, eds. St. Pnevmatikos, T. 
Bountis and
Sp. Pnevmatikos (World Scientific, Singapore, 1989). Forthcoming:
DISCONTINUOUS CHANGE IN MULTILEVEL HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS with J. B. 
Rosser, C.
Folke, F. Guenther, C. Perrings, G. Peterson and T. Puu, Beijer 
International
Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of 
Sciences,
Discussion paper series, in press; A paper on transcient chaos 
related to the
existence of chaotic saddles with Y-C Lai, C. Grebogi, J. A. Yorke 
and I. Kan,
Nonlinearity, in press.
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___________

Jarnefelt, Kasper
Computer Aided Architectural Design       VOICE AND FAX:  +46-46-
104863
School of Architecture                    or +46-46137959
Box 118
Lund Institute of Technology
SWEDEN

FIELD:  Architecture.  ORIENTATION:  A pragmatic view on the 
world, trying to
use whatever methods possible to structure what seems to be a 
practitioners
skill.

INTERESTS:  Current research projects on building laborer health, 
how to
improve it with the help of information technology in the planning 
process.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Currently starting (since a year 
ago) a
scientific "life" after 10 years as an architect in the "real" 
world.  Chaos
theory and complex systems seem to be an approach to study the 
kind of complex
processes that lead to building and the use of buildings.
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___________

Johnston, Michael                         
MJOHNSTON@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU
Department of Political Science
Colgate University
New York
USA

FIELD: Political Science.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  I have an amateur's interest in 
chaos theory
and have borrowed from it metaphorically in some work I'm doing on 
political
corruption and the evolution of ethical standards, public/private 
boundaries,
and the like. I won't overstate the sophistication of my use of 
it, but I
find the metaphors handy for arguing that we are unlikely ever to 
find
precise boundaries defining corruption or several of its key 
concepts.


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Kantor, Barna                             
kbarna28@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu
Student
Sociology Department
University of Texas
Austin
USA

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Evolutionary modeling of human 
culture in the
same sense as artificial life researchers pursue it.  This 
scientific view
starts from a general theory of evolution and treats systems like 
organic
life, human culture, and artificial life as instances of the 
general model.
My interest is to show the validity of this view, and to 
contribute to a
paradigmatic vision for social sciences, based on the evolutionary 
approach.
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Keen, Steve                               Steve.Keen@unsw.edu.au
Economics Department
University of New South Wales
PO Box 1
Kensington NSW 2033
AUSTRALIA

FIELD:  Economics.  ORIENTATION:  Post-keynesian, with a non-
standard
interpretation of Marx as my philosophical foundation.

INTERESTS:  Modeling the occurrence of depressions; being able to 
distinguish
between stagflation downturns (10 1973) and depressions 
(1929/1989) in
economic modeling; devising models of economic cycles which 
incorporate
finance.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Am doing research into Minsky's 
Financial
Instability Hypothesis, building models to demonstrate his ideas 
on the basis
of Goodwin's limit cycle model.  An initial paper has been 
submitted to the
JPKE, and is currently in the second round of refereeing; working 
title is
"Finance an Economic Breakdown: Modeling Minsky's Financial 
Instability
Hypothesis."
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___________

Kiel, L. Douglas                          dkiel@utdallas.edu
Associate Professor of Government/        VOICE:  (214)-690-2019
Politics and Political Economy            FAX:  (215)-690-2735
School of Social Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas
P.O. Box 830688
Richardson, Texas 75083                   Ph.D.
USA

FIELD:  Generalist in Public Administration/Management; Political 
Science.
ORIENTATION:  Positivist-Nonlinear Systems Dynamics.

INTERESTS:  Governance, organizational management and policy 
sciences.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Have published numerous articles 
applying
nonlinear paradigm to change in public administration, government
organizations, and social and policy sciences.  Books in Progress: 
(1)
Untitled Book applying Sciences of Complexity to nature of public 
management
and transformational change in public organizations, Fall 1994, 
Jossey-Bass
and (2) Edited book entitled "Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences:
Foundations and Applications," University of Michigan Press, 1995.  
Papers in
Progress:  (1) Two papers using actual data from government 
organizations to
test for chaotic dynamics and (2) Several papers that show 
organizations as
dynamical systems as a mode of analysis.
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___________

Koehler, Carlos Benevenuto Guisard        irene@cetem.anrj.br
Ph.D. Student
COPPE/UFRJ
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
BRAZIL

FIELD:  Engineering, Physics, History of Science.  ORIENTATION:  
History of
ideas and concepts, with some proximity to Popper and Lakatos.

INTERESTS:  History of ideas and concepts, the development and 
interaction of
science and technology, science policy.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Research in history and philosophy 
of science,
about "Indeterministic Concepts in Classical Mechanics," or the 
"pre-history"
of chaos theory.
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___________

Koehler, Gus                              
gkoehler@agency.resource.ca.gov
Policy Analyst, General Law & Government  VOICE:  916 322-0904
California Research Bureau                FAX:  916 322-0665
California State Library
1029 J Street, Suite 500
Sacramento, CA 95814
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Policy analysis.

INTERESTS:  Apply chaos theory, path dependent processes and 
evolutionary
metaphors to clarify how government economic development policy 
might address
California's current recession and restructuring of the defense-
related
aspects of the state's economy.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Has applied chaos theory and 
fractal analysis
to state government public policy disaster management issues for 
the past nine
years.  These concepts have been particularly useful for 
understanding how
emergency medical systems organize themselves following a major 
disaster.
Recently presented paper to annual conference of Society for Chaos 
Theory in
Psychology and the Social Sciences:  "Fractals and Path Dependent 
Processes:
A theoretical approach for characterizing emergency medical 
responses to major
disasters."
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____________

Kronenberg, Philip S.                      philk@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Professor of Public Policy                 VOICE:  703 698-6084
Center for Public Administration & Policy  FAX:  703 698-6062
Northern Virginia Graduate Center
Virginia Tech
2990 Telestar Court
Falls Church, VA 22042-1287
USA                                        Ph.D.

FIELD:  Public policy, management, and organization theory.
ORIENTATION:  Interpretive structuralist and interorganizational
theorist with an eclectic focus on political economy and the 
emergent
field of policy systems management.

INTERESTS:  Strategic management and interorganizational theory;
industrial policy; international security; technology development,
economic growth and security policy; chaos and complexity theory.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Over several decades I have 
conducted
research on the strategic management of evolutionary, 
interorganizational
processes in the human services, national security, and emergency
management policy domains, as well as on interorganizational 
design
processes involving command and control and security-economic 
policy
conflict. I am currently working on several projects about the
industrial policy debate and the implications of nonlinear, 
complex,
evolutionary processes for society's capacity to design and 
support
effective and democratically responsible institutional guidance
for national policy systems.

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Larwood, Laurie                           larwood@scs.unr.edu
Institute for Strategic Business Issues
Department of Management
College of Business Administration
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
USA

INTERESTS:  Has a research group examining the meaning and 
usefulness of
strategic vision in organizations.
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Leuba, Astrid                             leuba@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Ph.D. Student                             VOICE: (512) 471-5718
Operations Research
ETC 5.134, University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, 78712
USA

FIELD:  Engineering.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  My Ph.D. subject is not yet 
completely defined
but will deal with Chaos systems and Public Policy (social systems 
and global
modeling).  I am just starting to work on the area (I finished my 
masters
thesis on neural networks last Fall).  I did my undergraduate 
studies in
Engineering in France (Ecole Polytechnique Feminine, graduation in 
June 1992).
In December 1993, I completed my masters degree in Mechanical 
Engineering at
the University of Texas at Austin.  My masters thesis was on 
System
Identification using Neural Networks, in which I developed a new 
and improved
algorithm for on-line clustering based on a Neural Network 
technique called
ART.
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Lubahn, Dennis                            
LubahnD@UNCVX1.OIT.UNC.EDU
Pediatrics and Pathology
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Sociology, psychology and biochemistry.  ORIENTATION:  
Libertarian

INTERESTS:  I am new to the complexity area but I am fascinated by 
its
implications for political change and biological regulatory 
mechanisms.
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___________

Massa, Tod R.                             massatr@sluvca.slu.edu
Ph.D. Student                             VOICE:  (314) 658-2223
Saint Louis University
221 North Grand
St. Louis, MO 63103
USA

FIELD:  Public policy studies.

ORIENTATION:  Basically, I am an empiricist that accepts that 
answers in
discovery are determined by the framework of the question, thus 
the importance
of determining what is relevant and significant within the 
framework of
theoretical model.

INTERESTS:  Information systems and their relationship to policy 
analysis.
Higher education and cultural policy.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  A dissertation in policy 
information systems
that discussed the inability to perform rational policy analysis 
without
borrowing from the paradigms of the natural sciences in terms of 
the relevance
and significance of measurement.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

McClelland, Robert                        xum@nihcu.bitnet
Bureau of Labor Statistics                VOICE:  202 606-6579 
ext. 607
2 Massachusetts Ave, NE                   FAX:  202 606-7080
Room 3105
Washington, DC 20212
USA

INTERESTS:  Nonlinear dynamics and public economics.
__________________________________________________________________
___________
Michaels, Mark                            chaos@tmn.com
People Technologies                       VOICE and FAX: 217 328-
0032
200 Lincoln Square
P.O. Box 4100
Urbana, IL 61801
USA

FIELD: Organization development and management.
ORIENTATION: scientific method

INTERESTS: General organizational management

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  My main project is the Chaos 
Network,
an association of academics, consultants, business people, and 
others
exploring the application of chaos/complexity theory to social 
systems.
Other related projects include: completion of the Proceedings of 
the
3rd Annual Chaos Network Conference; an article on chaos theory 
applied
to nonprofit management for a book for John Wiley & Sons; and a 
book
on chaos theory as applied to management.

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Miner, Anne S.                            AMINER@gsb.bus.wisc.edu
School of Business                        VOICE:  608-263-4143
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI  53706-1323
USA

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Taking a basic evolutionary 
approach to
consider public policy issues in technology policy at national 
level in our
required course on the Management of Innovation and Technology.  
The entire
course is framed within an evolutionary perspective, suggesting we 
think of
firms as parts of nested evolutionary systems, and assume there 
will be co-
evolution of technologies and organizations.  Publications:  1991 
paper on
"The social ecology of jobs" ASR and 1991 ASQ paper with Amburgey 
and Stearns
on population level transformation.  Forthcoming:  A paper on 
population-level
learning, in which I define learning as a particular type of 
variation-
selection-retention process.  The principal emphasis is 
theoretical, but I am
developing somewhat the theme of the implications of this 
perspective for
national policies.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Neidhart, Jim                             j_neidhart@unhh.unh.edu
Ph.D. Student                             VOICE:  (603) 862-3331
Dept. of Economics
University of New Hampshire
McConnell Hall
Durham, N.H.  03824
USA

FIELD:  Ecological economics, institutionalism, Out-of-equilibrium 
school of
modynamics and ecology theory.  ORIENTATION:  Emphasis on 
epistemology rather
than ontology.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Dissertation (forthcoming):  
Evolutionary
Theories in Economics.  The specific research approach that I have 
taken is to
apply the ecological notions of hierarchy to economics.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Oliver, Amalya L.                         
amalyao@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
Faculty
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ISRAEL

ORIENTATION:  Positivist.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Starting to work in theory 
building.
Questioning the basic assumptions of network analysis, through 
observing the
different ways users of the method have used it.
__________________________________________________________________
___________
Palmer, Kent D.                           palmer@world.std.com
Software Engineering Technologist         VOICE: 714-638-7376
P.O. Box 8383                             Thinknet BBS: 714-638-
0876
Orange, CA 92664-8383
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD: Philosophy especially ontology, philosophy of science & 
technol-
ogy; sociology especially theoretical sociology and sociology of
knowledge; systems theory expecially autopoietic systems; software
engineering especially design methodologies
ORIENTATION: Phenomenology, hermeneutics, dialectics, 
structuralism
tempered by heuristic research

INTERESTS: Facilitating thoughtful conversations in cyberspace. 
Current
lists include a cluster of lists in modern continental philosophy 
and
autopoietic systems theory

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Software engineering foundations; 
The
future of software process; Software engineering design methods, 
general
sytems theory, artificial intelligence, and systems engineering; 
Intro-
duction to the integral software engineering methodology; On the 
social
construction of emergent worlds: The foundations of reflexive 
auto-
poietic systems theory. Book in progress: The Fragmentation of 
Being and
the Path Beyond the Void: Speculations in an Emergent Onto-
mythology.

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Peng, Mike W.                             
pengmike@u.washington.edu
University of Washington                  VOICE:  206 685-3432
School of Business Administration, DJ-10  FAX: (206) 685-9392
Seattle, WA 98195
USA

FIELD:  Management (business policy, strategic management and 
organization
theory.  ORIENTATION:  Strategist, international strategist, 
organization
theorist.

INTERESTS:  Organizational changes (public and private) in planned 
economies
and their implications for Western businesses.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Papers:  "Blurring boundaries: The 
growth of
the firm in planned economies in transition," presented at the 
1993 Academy of
International Business Conference in Maui, Hawaii.  Forthcoming:
"Organizational changes in planned economies in transition: An 
eclectic
model."  In Advances in International Comparative Management, vol. 
9,
Greenwich, CT: JAI Press and "Organization theory and China's 
economic
reforms" with C. W. L. Hill and J. J. Ouyang.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Perelman, Michael                         
michael@ecst.csuchico.edu
Economics Department                      VOICE:  916-898-5321
California State University               916-898-6141 messages
Chico, CA 95929
USA

INTERESTS:  Complexity/chaos from Marxian angle.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Piskulich, Michelle                       piskulich@oakland.bitnet
Binghamton University                     
piskulic@vela.acs.oakland.edu
Department of Political Science           VOICE:  313 370-2362
420 Varner Hall
Rochester, MI  48309-4401
USA

FIELD:  Political Science.

INTERESTS:  Welfare policy.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Polley, Douglas                           
DOUGPOLL@TIGGER.STCLOUD.MSUS.EDU
Associate Professor                       VOICE: (612) 255-4830
Dept. of Management & Finance             Answering machine: (612) 
240-0520
St. Cloud State University                FAX: (612) 255-3986
720 Fourth Ave. South
St. Cloud, MN  56301
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Organization theory.  Originally did graduate work in 
Mathematics and
Economics but more recently work in OT and Strategy.  ORIENTATION:  
Raised in
the positivist religion.  Now an agnostic.  In the words of A. 
Brilliant
"Having abandoned my search for truth I am now looking for a good 
fantasy."

INTERESTS:  Chaos, complexity, and the ways that these recent 
technical
developments can accurately inform our understanding of 
organizations.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Participated in 1993 Academy of 
Management
symposium on organization theory and chaos.  Working on a paper 
relating
different metaphors for chaos to the theory of organizational 
learning and
change.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Poon, Chi-Sang                            cpoon@hstbme.mit.edu
Harvard-MIT Division of                   VOICE: 617-258-5405
  Health Sciences and Technology          FAX: 617-253-2514
Rm 20A-126
M.I.T.
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

FIELD:  Biomedical.

INTERESTS:  Chaos analysis;  nonlinear systems identification; 
neural
networks; control systems theory; related interests are health 
care delivery
and complex systems.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Porush, David                             
gsrporu@vmsa.technion.ac.il
Fulbright Professor                       VOICE: [011 - 972 -4] 
293-928
Technion
Haifa 32000, ISRAEL

Permanent address:
LL&C, RPI
Troy, NY 12180
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  Applying chaos theory to discussion of the 
"epistemological
potency" of literary texts.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Rajagopalan, Srini                        
MGTRAJAG@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu
310F Jacobs Center
School of Management
State University of New York
Buffalo, NY 14260
USA

ORIENTATION:  Positivist and interpretivist.

INTERESTS:  Strategic management, organization theory and 
quantitative
methods.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Currently working on a paper using 
chaos
theory to look at competitive interaction in a commodity industry.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Rappazzo, Andee                           rappazzo@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu
Graduate Assistant and Ph.D. student      VOICE: 703 698-6084
Center for Public Administration & Policy   FAX: 703 698-6062
Virginia Tech
200 North Pickett St,  #1504
Alexandria, VA 22304

FIELD: public administration, management, interpersonal 
communication
ORIENTATION: radical humanist...functionalist when necessary

INTERESTS: Chaos/complexity as societal metaphor

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Possible use of chaos theory as 
analogy
for technological innovation as subject of Ph.D. dissertation.

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Reed, David S.                            
76340.2443@compuserve.com
Reed Public Policy, Inc.                  VOICE: 202 483-1503
Suite 210                                 FAX: 202 986-2495
3509 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC  20008
USA

FIELD:  Public policy.

INTERESTS:  Program evaluation.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Research proposal in preparation 
on use of
complex systems technique in program evaluation. An early 
application of the
techniques is in our evaluation of the General Operating Support 
program for
the Institute of Museum Services (Washington: Institute of Museum 
Services,
1991).
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Riggle, James D.                          JRIGGLE@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Research Fellow, Ph.D. Student            VOICE:  703 993-2275
Institute of Public Policy
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444
USA

FIELD:  Public Policy/Political Science/Political Sociology.
ORIENTATION: Post-positivist social science; fascinated by 
evolutionary
economics complexity theory, interpretivist and sociological 
policy
models.

INTERESTS:  American federalism; U. S. agricultural policy; 
environmental
and conservation policy; U. S. intergovernmental relations; social
foundations of democracy.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Research underway on study of 
effects of
federal mandates on local governments; revising article on the 
next stage in
the evolution of American federalism; revising article on proposed 
new basis
for U. S. agricultural policy.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Rosser, J. Barkley Jr.                    
fac_brosser@vax1.acs.jmu.edu
Dept. of Economics                        VOICE:  703-568-3212
James Madison University                  FAX:  703-568-3299
Harrisonburg, VA 2807
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Economics.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Publications:  From Catastrophe to 
Chaos: A
General Theory of Economic Discontinuities, 1991, Kluwer (a book); 
"Chaos
Theory and the New Keynesian Economics," 1990, Manchester School 
of Economic
and Social Studies.  Forthcoming:  "Long Wave Chaos and Systemic 
Economic
Transformation," (with M.V. Rosser), 1993, World Futures: The 
Journal of
General Evolution; "Chaos Theory and Rationality," forthcoming in 
Chaos Theory
in the Social Sciences, eds. Euel Elliot and L.D. Kiel, U. of 
Michigan Press;
"Dynamics of Emergent Urban Hierarchy," 1993, Chaos, Solitons, and 
Fractals.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Rough, Jim                                rough@tmn.com
Jim Rough & Associates                    VOICE: 206 385 7118

FIELD: Business consulting, seminar presenter and speaker
ORIENTATION: Facilitator of complex systems change

INTERESTS: Facilitating breakthroughs

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: I have a project "An American 
Constitu-
tional Invention" which is designed to spark a self-organizing 
process
in governance which I am writing about. Recently published "Static
Qualtiy vs. Dynamic Quality" in Quality Digest/December 1993.

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Sarges, Ivo                               ISARGES@VM1.YorkU.CA
Department of Political Science           VOICE:  (416) 650-3106
York University
Toronto
CANADA

FIELD:  Political science, particularly international relations 
and security
and peace issues.  ORIENTATION:  Constructionism and determinism.

INTERESTS:  Designing new course on "Nonlinear dynamics in 
international
relations" which examines the applications of chaos theory to the 
social
sciences in general and international relations (security issues) 
in
particular. This examination will focus on both the 
epistemological
orientation of the "new sciences" and on their value for 
pragmatics.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  A chaotic agenda for peace -- an 
attempt to
evaluate the UN secretary general's analysis and recommendations 
chaotic
perpetual peace -- an attempt to re-evaluate Kantian thought on 
international
relations.  Thesis planned -- a reconstruction of the non-
prediction of the
end of the cold war or: why people who didn't study international 
relations
could have predicted this event with similar unsatisfaction as 
scholars of the
field.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Saunders-Newton, Desmond                  newton@atlantis.rand.org
1700 Main Street                          VOICE:  (310) 393-0411 
x6221
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
USA                                       Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  Information and complex adaptive systems theory; 
computer-based
design, modeling and analysis of complex adaptive systems; C3A in 
Systems
Operation and International Security & Defense Planning

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  (1) Adaptive Battlefield 
Ammunition
Distribution:  The Role of Systemic Adaptation in Dynamic 
Environments (A RAND
report [& dissertation]: RGSD-107; (2) On Modeling Policy 
Complexity:  A
Modeling Paradigm for Representing and Assessing Complex Policy 
Systems.
(Paper presented at the 1993 APPAM research conference).  
Forthcoming:  Policy
Systems, Complexity and Emergence:  A Modeling Paradigm for Policy 
Analysis in
Post-Reductionist World (paper being prepared for submission to 
the IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics with Steven Bankes 
whose
interests include modeling methodologies for modeling 
unvalidateable and non-
optimal solution systems through exploratory modeling or computer
experimentation).
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Scavo, Carmine                            
poscavo@ecuvm.cis.ecu.edu
Dept. of Political Science                VOICE:  (919) 757-6030
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
USA

FIELD:  Political Science.

INTERESTS:  I try to keep up with Chaos Theory.  I teach Public 
Policy both at
the undergraduate and the MPA level and discuss Chaos Theory in 
class but find
it difficult to find specific examples of chaos research in 
Political Science.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Schreiber, Michael F.                     Michael.Schreiber@wu-
wien.ac.at
Department of Marketing                   VOICE:  +43-1-31336-4402
University of Economics and               FAX:  +43-1-31336-732
  Business Administration
Augasse 2-6
A-1090 Vienna
AUSTRIA                                   Ph.D.

FIELD:  Business Administration (Marketing).

ORIENTATION:  Dialectical construction of reality by consciousness 
in between
the nested domains of abstract expressions and natural machines.  
I use a
modified version of Popper-B4s 3-world-approach.

INTERESTS: Participative differentiation of interventions 
fostering the urban,
regional, national and supranational harmonization of the growth 
dynamics of
population and value-added.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Will present a paper at the 1994 
European
Meeting for Cybernetics and Systems Research 1994 on Initiating 
Sustainable
Urbanization.  Cities contribute to socially and ecologically 
sustainable
development by creating enough value-added to absorb additional 
population and
by reducing the through-put of natural resources per person.  This 
vision
could be achieved through (1) transformations of existing 
agglomerations and
(2) formations of new cities.  Both kinds of strategies have to 
prepare for
cycles of urban development, that turn local synergies into 
attractiveness,
which in turn lead to decline after overexploitation of local 
resources and
infrastructures.  Local situations arising from combinations of 
these issues
call for evaluations of local competitive environments and local 
articulation
of sustainable differentiation.  Marketing conceptualizes 
corresponding
projects operationally in relating them to the combination of four 
elementary
instruments and proposing a fractal conceptualization of socio-
ecologic
differentiation.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Sethi, Rajiv                              SETHI@polyglot.uvm.edu
Dept. of Economics                        VOICE:  802 656 0946
University of Vermont
479 Main Street
Burlington, VT 05405
USA

FIELD:  Economics.

INTERESTS:   Speculative Markets, Bounded Rationality, Social 
Norms.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Representative publications 
include the
following:  "Dynamics of Learning and the Financial Instability 
Hypothesis,"
Journal of Economics (August 1992); "Endogenous Growth Cycles in 
an Open
Economy with Fixed Exchange Rates," Journal of Economic Behavior 
and
Organization (December 1992); "The Evolutionary Dynamics of 
Financial
Practices," University of Bielefeld, Discussion Paper 267 
(February 1993) and
"Evolutionary Stability and Social Norms," University of 
Bielefeld, Discussion
Paper 273 (May 1993).
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___________

Sharfman, Mark                            ba0354@uokmvsa.bitnet
University of Oklahoma                    VOICE:  405 325-5941
College of Business Administration
307 W. Brooks - Rm 218
Norman, OK 73019
USA

ORIENTATION:  Functionalist.

INTERESTS:  Business strategy and organizational economics and 
sociology.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Currently looking at the rates of 
foundings
and failures in the steel industry over about 110 years.  We will 
being
fitting a number of non-linear dynamic (complexity theory) 
equations to a
variety of phenomena (both macro economic and organizational) to 
see if they
can do a better job of explaining our phenomena of interest.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Smith, R. David                           INTERNET: DSMITH@UPEI.CA
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Asian Studies Co-ordinator
University of Prince Edward Island
PEI, CANADA    C1A 4P3                    Ph.D.

FIELD:  Sociology.

INTERESTS:  I see Chaos as the emergent paradigm to replace the 
older one(s)
which are now clearly blown apart.  Also, I'm interested in "human
universals"...what is it about us that is only filtered, not 
created, by
culture?

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Ph.D. dissertation on funding and 
utilization
patterns in the Canadian Health Care System (1980).  Presented a 
paper "The
Inapplicability Principle:  What Chaos Means for Social Science," 
at the 1992
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology 
Association.  Will
chair a session on Chaos Theory in Sociology in Calgary, Alberta 
at the
Canadian Sociology meetings in June 1994.
__________________________________________________________________
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Sotarauta, Markku                         atmaso@uta.fi
Student                                   VOICE:  358-31-215 6471
University of Tampere                     FAX:  358-31-215 7311
Department of Regional Studies
P.O. Box 607
FIN-33101  TAMPERE
FINLAND

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Licentiates dissertation:  a 
theoretical work
about governance of change, evolutionary futures research, 
municipalities and
strategic thinking.  Presently, engaged in theory-building that 
draws on
complexity and evolutionary futures researches.  Aim is to combine 
basic ideas
presented in those field in governance of change by the aid of 
strategic
thinking.  I'm adapting my theory-building to public 
administration,
especially to Finnish municipalities.  Representative publications 
include the
following:  (1) Co-operation Between Muncipalities from Strategic 
Thinking
Point of View in Suomen kunnallistieteellinen aikakauskirja 
(Journal of
Municipal Sciences), March 1993; (2) Development and Co-operation 
Strategies
of Municipalities of Ruovesi and Kuru and Virrat Town - Co-
operation between
Municipalities and Changing Environment (The Association of 
Finnish Cities,
Acta-series 16).
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Truex, Duane P.                         Truex@Bingvaxa.bitnet
Binghamton University                   
Truex@bingvaxa.cc.binghamton.edu
P. O. Box 6000                          VOICE:  607-777-2630
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
USA                                     Ph.D.

INTERESTS:  The emergent institution.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Publications include the 
following: (a)
"Systems Without Method: The Impact of new Technologies on 
Information Systems
Development Projects" with Richard Baskerville and Julie Travis in 
IFIP
Transactions on the Impact of Computer Supported Technologies in 
Information
Systems Development, K.E. Kendall, K. Lyytinen and J. I. DeGross, 
eds.,
Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publications, 1992; (b) "A Rejection 
of Structure
as a Basis for Information Systems Development," with Heinz K. 
Klein in
Collaborative Work, Social Communications and Information Systems, 
R. K.
Stamper, P. Kerola, R. Lee, K. Lyytinen, eds., Amsterdam: North 
Holland, 1991
and (c) "Organizations Without 'System': Working with Holons 
Against
Universality?" with Julie Travis In Systems Science: Addressing 
Global Issues,
F. A. Stowell, D. West and J. Howell, eds., New York: Plenum 
Press,  1993.
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___________

Tschang, F. Ted                           ft0d+@andrew.cmu.edu
Ph.D. Student
Heinz School of Public Policy and Mgmt.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg, PA 15213
USA

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Looking for a dissertation topic, 
and recently
one of the areas that I am interested in is to look for ways in 
which I can
contribute to the technical assistance/tech transfer literature 
along the
lines of evolutionary/complex systems methodology (for 
international
development) possibly through redefining project management 
frameworks.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Umpleby, Stuart A.
Professor and Director
Systems Theory and Cybernetics Program
Department of Management Science
The George Washington University
Washington, D. C. 20052
USA

FIELD:  Management Science.

INTERESTS:  Cybernetics, artificial intelligence and systems 
theory.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  A number of articles and papers 
have been
prepared in recent years on the application of cybernetics and 
systems theory
to various areas, including world population, community 
development, economic
processes, and changing conditions in the former Soviet Union.
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Weber, Eberhard E. H.                     ebweb@netcom.com
1737 1/2 N. Edgemont St.                  VOICE:  213 661-1820
Los Angeles, CA 90027
USA                                       Ph.D.

FIELD:  Systems sciences (holistic).  ORIENTATION:  Probably 
'positivist' or,
under the preferred 'whatever' option, Globalist.

INTERESTS:  Global socio-economics, closed systems approach.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  (1)  Compilation of research notes 
(covering
10+ years) into manuscript, random publication of re-formatted 
portions of the
manuscript into articles posted on the Internet for feedback.  
(The first
article was distributed recently and is available from scogs-
pubs@netcom.com
automailer by issuing the one-line command:  send 104; (2)  
Groundwork on
forming a 'Standing Conference On Global Systems (SCOGS)'--a 
global scholarly
effort on global socio-economic model and (3) continued research 
on a new
socio-economic global systems model "Goalistics."
__________________________________________________________________
___________

Wilson, James                             jwilson@Maine.Maine.edu
Dept. of Resource Economics               VOICE:  207-581-3101
Univ. of Maine
Orono, ME 04469
USA

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  An interdisciplinary group working 
on the
resource management implications of chaotic ocean fisheries 
systems.  Our work
is based on computer simulations of large biological communities 
(or systems)
that exhibit chaotic patterns within the range of normally 
expected parameters
for individual populations.  Our work points to a large and costly 
information
and learning problem (and a potentially very large problem arising 
from
unintended effects) if management of these resources is carried 
out in the
usual quantitative fashion (e.g., quotas, etc.).  Our work is 
directing us
toward decentralized, institutional alternatives to current ocean 
fisheries
management.

Publications:  Practical implications of chaos in fisheries:  
ecologically
adapted management, with P. Kleban in Maritime Anthropological 
Studies, June
1992 and Chaotic Dynamics in a Multiple Species Fishery: A Model 
of Community
Predation, with S. McKay, P. Kleban, J. French, and R. Townsend.  
Ecological
Modeling , 1991.
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___________

Young, T.R.                               
34lpf6t@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu
Director                                  VOICE/FAX: 517 644-5176
The Red Feather Institute for
  Advanced Studies in Sociology
8085 Essex
Weidman, MI 48893

Visiting Professor, Sociology of Law, Dept of Sociology, Univ 
Mich, Flint

FIELD: Sociology  ORIENTATION: symbolic interactional theory, 
critical
theory, chaos theory.

INTERESTS: Inequality, crime, law, sociology of knowledge, 
religion


RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS: Nonlinear dynamics in sociology of 
law;
class structure in complex societies; postmodern 
philosophy/science;
postmodern religion/theology; chaos and crime.

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Zimmerman, Brenda                         as000116@orion.yorku.ca
Assistant Professor                       VOICE:  416 736-5062, 
ext. 77930
Faculty of Administrative Studies
York University
4700 Keele Street
North York, Ontario
M3J 1P3
CANADA                                    Ph.D.

FIELD:  Administrative studies.  ORIENTATION:  I use an 
interpretive approach.

INTERESTS:  Strategy and organization change.

RESEARCH AND WORK IN PROGRESS:  Has applied Chaos Theory to study
organizations for several years on such topics as "The Fractal 
Organization,"
chaos and nonequilibrium and strategic planning.  Current research 
sites
include the Ministry of Health of Ontario, the Bank of Montreal, 
and a small
manufacturing company.  In each case, I am examining the 
organization's
capacity for changeability based on Chaos/Complexity Theory.
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