4.9 CyberSystemics in tourism and hospitality services:
experiences to share and lessons to be learned

Coordinators

Discussion points

• How do a neural network approach could be applied to the management of social systems?

• How do distributed network management systems can be built in for complex organisations?

• Which approaches and tools are more useful for managing the dynamics of social networks?

• When, how and why do transitional metasystems emerge?[AE1] 

• Is it possible and desirable to ‘manage self-organization’?

• Why are we moving along the path charted by Stafford Beer so slowly?

• What are the features of self-organization in reflective organisational systems and environments?

• How self-organisation and distributed control can create a better context for business and society sustainability?

• How are self-development, self-organization and self - management related?

• What are the prospects for interaction of leading interdisciplinary approaches - synergetics and cybernetics? Is it through conflict or synthesis?

• Is it possible to build an evolutionary theory of control systems?