ISSS Special Integration Groups
A Special Integration Group is not a Special Interest Group. See Special Integration Groups Purpose.
Special Integration Groups may jointly focus on common interests (at a distance) over the year, and/or join in formal discussion at the annual meeting.
Groups congregating in designated sessions at an annual meeting may be placed into one of two categories:
- SIGs represented in council, that have been ratified by the Board of Directors, and have scheduled at least one paper session within the past two annual meetings; and
- Coordinated sessions, that share in an annual meeting, but may have organizational affilations independently of the ISSS.
For more information on SIGs, consult the ISSS Bylaws, section 4.10.
SIGs represented in council
Please contact the following SIG chairs for further information and any questions you may have about their work or submitting a paper in the annual meeting.
| SIGs | SIG Chair(s) | Contact |
| Action Research | Shankar Sankaran | shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au |
| Agent-based Social Systems | Shingo Takahashi | shingo@waseda.jp |
| Balancing Individualism and Collectivism | Janet McIntyre | janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.au |
| Critical Systems Theory and Practice | Jennifer Wilby | isssoffice@dsl.pipex.com |
| Designing Educational Systems | Ockie Bosch | ockie.bosch@adelaide.edu.au |
| Evolutionary Development | Judith Rosen and Alexander Laszlo |
alexander@syntonyquest.org |
| Health and Systems Thinking | Thomas Wong | ISSS@EC-Balance.com |
| Hierarchy Theory | Billy Dawson | billyd11@aol.com |
| Human Systems Inquiry | Shankar Sankaran | Shankar.Sankaran@uts.edu.au |
| Information Systems Design and Information Technology | Bela A Banathy | babanathy@yahoo.com |
| ISSS Roundtable | Sue Gabriele | sgabriele@gemslearning.com and shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au |
| Living Systems Science | Jim Simms | jrsimms@juno.com |
| Organisational Transformation and Social Change | Maurice Yolles | prof.m.yolles@gmail.com |
| Relational Science | John Kineman | john.kineman@colorado.edu |
| Research Towards General Theories of Systems | Vince Vesterby | thegeneralist@themoderngeneralist.com |
| Socio-Ecological Systems | Vince Lopes | vl12@txstate.edu |
| Spirituality and Systems | Carl Swanson | CarlT.Swanson@gmail.com |
| Students SIG | Anne Stephens | stephens.liley@gmail.com |
| Systemic Approaches to Conflict and Crises | Dennis Finlayson and Jae Yu | dennisfinlayson56@yahoo.com |
| Systemic Approaches to Persistent Poverty and Disadvantage | Yiheyis Maru and Ockie Bosch | yiheyis.maru@csiro.au |
| Systems Applications in Business and Industry | Louis Klein | louis.klein@segroup.de |
| Systems Biology and Evolution | Len Troncale | lrtroncale@csupomona.edu |
| Systems and Mental Health |
Tamar Zohar Harel and Pamela Buckle Henning |
tzoharel@macam.ac.il buckle@adelphi.edu |
| Systems Modeling and Simulation | Janet Singer | jsinger@soe.ucsc.edu |
| Systems Pathology | Len Troncale | lrtroncale@csupomona.edu |
Exploratory Groups
Exploratory Groups are typically convened at an annual meeting. They may come together only once or twice and then disband, or they may self-organize for formal recognition as a Special Integration Group. A SIG chair has voting authority as a member of the ISSS Council, whereas Exploratory Groups are not represented in Council.
| Service Systems Science | Jim Kijima | kijima@valdes.titech.ac.jp |
| Systems Engineering | Janet Singer | jsinger@soe.ucsc.edu |
| Foundations of Information Science |
Soren Brier and Bela Banathy |
sbr.lpf@cbs.dk babanathy@yahoo.com |
| Monetary Systems | Debora Hammond | hammond@sonoma.edu |
