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Gianfranco Minati
(Last updated on January, 2025)
Contents:
1. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
2. CONTACT
3. FIELDS OF INTEREST AND
RESEARCH
4. PUBLICATIONS
5. Short CV
1. SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Gianfranco Minati, systems scientist, graduated in Mathematics from the University of Milan, Italy.
After the intense interdisciplinary collaboration with Professor Dimitris N. Chorafas (1926-2014)
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/feinberg/about/dimitris-n-chorafas-prize/about-foundation-and-prize
and http://www.weizmann.ac.il/WeizmannCompass/sections/people-behind-the-science/dimitris-n-
chorafas, he has switched from a position as executive in a large industrial-financial Italian group
(1979-1984) to research. He is founder and president of the Italian Systems Society. He is author,
co-author and editor of several academic publications. His current research interest focuses on 1)
Emergence and de-emergence; 2) Modelling processes of emergence by using Meta-Structures; 3)
The emerging of a post-Bertalanffy Systemics; 4) The Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM); 5)
Logical Openness; 6) Architecture and Design as the design of social meta-structures to influence
processes of emergence in social systems; 7) Prime numbers distribution in number theory, 8)
Artificial Unconscious for AI.
In the US he was Consulting Faculty at the Saybrook University, San Francisco, (professor Arne
Collen), adjunct faculty at the OHIO State University (OSU), (professor Larry Magliocca).
• Editor (April 2024 - ) of the Springer Contemporary Systems Thinking book series
https://www.springer.com/series/5807/editors ;
• Doctoral lecturer (2010-2017) at the Polytechnic of Milan/Department 'Building
Environment Sciences and Technology' http://webhosting.polimi.it/tpqa/Cur/gm.htm ;
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• Invited doctoral lecturer (2015-2022) at the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza",
Rome, Facoltà di Architettura, Dipartimento Planning Design Technology of Architecture;
• Founder (1996) and president of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS), Milan, Italy,
http://www.airs.it;
• President (2017-2018) of the EUS - UES European Union for Systemics http://www.ues-
eus.eu/index.php?lang=en
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Systems
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/editors?page_no=2
• He has been president of the 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2023 international
conferences of the Italian Systems Society http://www.airs.it/AIRS/indexEN.htm
o Congress 2023
▪ Multiple Systems - call for papers
o Congress 2017
▪ Minati, G., Abram, M, and Pessa, G., (eds.), (2019), Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasisystems,
Springer, New York
o Congress 2014
▪ Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2016), Towards a post-Bertalanffy Systemics. Springer,
New York
o Congress 2010
▪ Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2012), Methods, Models, simulations and approaches -
towards a general theory of change. World Scientific, Singapore
o Congress 2007
▪ Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2009), Processes of emergence of systems and systemic
properties. Towards a general theory of emergence. World Scientific, Singapore
o Congress 2004
▪ Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Abram, M., (eds.), (2006), Systemics of Emergence: Research and
Applications. Springer, New York
o Congress 2001
▪ Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (eds.) (2002), Emergence in Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological
Systems. Kluwer, New York
o Congress 1998
▪ Minati, G., (ed.), (1998), Proceedings of the first Italian Conference on Systemics, Apogeo scientifica,
Milan, Italy
• Member of the scientific committee of Conferences, Systems Societies and research groups.
• He delivered several lectures in Italy and abroad.
2. CONTACT
s-mail: Italian Systems Society (AIRS)
via Pellegrino Rossi, 42B 20161 Milan, Italy.
Email: gianfranco.minati@(1)
substitute (1) by AIRS.it
Email: minati.gianfranco51@(2)
substitute (2) by gmail.com
Skype: gminati
3. FIELDS OF INTEREST
Theoretical issues on Systems Science, such as: Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Logical
Openness, Collective Behavior, Emergence, Ergodicity, Dynamic Usage of Models, Meta-structures,
Networks, Post-Bertalanffy Systemics, Multiple-Systems and Collective Beings, Quasi-Systems.
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Current research projects relate to
▪ Evolution and emergence.
▪ Emergence and de-emergence.
▪ Quasiness and theoretical incompleteness (quasi-systems when a system is not always a
system neither the same system) as freedom of becoming allowing emergence of coherence.
▪ Experimenting “Meta-structure in collective phenomena - Methodologies for modelling and
managing processes of self-organisation and emergence”.
▪ The emerging of a post-Bertalanffy Systemics (see publications below) based on concepts
like: Between (the mesoscopic middle way); Multiple and dynamic coherences, e.g.
synchronizations; Equivalence/non-equivalence; Individuality; Incompleteness; Induction of
properties; Irreversibility; Meta-structural properties; Methods and models to build strategies;
Networks; Non-causality; Non-invasiveness; Non-prescribability; Non-separability; Power
Laws; Pre-properties; Propagation; Quantum theories and concepts; Quasi properties;
Quasiness; Symmetry; Structural Dynamics; Structural regimes of validity; Topological
Dynamics; and Transient (see http://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/special_issues/second-
generation-general-system-theory);
▪ Architecture and Design as the design of meta-structures to influence processes of emergence
in social systems. Self-architecture: influences of Architecture on social systems and
influences of social systems on Architecture;
▪ Establish a managerial culture consistent with science of complexity. Management for
corporations, medicine, families, schools with reference to the Dynamic Usage of Models
(DYSAM), see for instance, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-0753-
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▪ Artificial Unconscious for AI.
4. PUBLICATIONS
A selection of chapters in books since 1993
1. Minati, G. (2024), Multiple Systems, In: Multiple Systems. Complexity and Coherence in
Ecosystems, Collective Behavior, and Social Systems. G. Minati, Maria Pietronilla Penna
(Eds.), Springer, New York, NY, pp. 3-35, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-
3-031-44685-6_1
2. Minati, G. (2022), Sistemi: origini, ricerca e prospettive. Proprietà sistemiche emergenti
e intelligenza. In: L’intelligenza della Natura, L. Ulivi (Ed,), Cantagalli, pp. 91-127.
https://www.edizionicantagalli.com/shop/lintelligenza-della-natura/
3. Minati, G. (2022). Multiplicity, Logical Openness, Incompleteness, and Quasi-ness as
Peculiar Non-reductionist Properties of Complexity. In: From Electrons to Elephants and
Elections: Saga of Content and Context, S. Wuppuluri and I. Stewart (Eds.), Springer,
New York, NY, USA https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-92192-7_10
4. Minati, G. (2021). What would I propose to Eliano to continue our collaboration: validity
regimes, edges, interfaces, and waves of complexity. In: Multiplicity and
Interdisciplinarity - Essays in Honor of Eliano Pessa, Minati, G. (Ed.), Springer, New
York, NY, USA, pp. 93-119, https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030718763
5. Minati, G., (2019), Phenomenological structural dynamics of emergence: an overview of
how emergence emerges, In: The Systemic Turn in Human and Natural Sciences. A Rock
in The Pond. (Urbani Ulivi Lucia. Ed.), Springer, New York.
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030007249 , pp. 1 - 39.
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6. Minati, G., (2019), Does Systemics still need theories? Theory-less knowledge? In:
Systemics of Incompleteness and Quasi-systems, (G. Minati, M. Abram and E. Pessa,
eds.), Springer, New York, pp. 87-92.
7. Minati, G., (2019), On some open issues in systemics, In: Systemics of Incompleteness
and Quasi-systems, (G. Minati, M. Abram and E. Pessa, eds.), Springer, New York, pp.
317-323.
8. Minati, G., (2016), General System(s) Theory 2.0: a brief outline, In: Towards a Post-
Bertalanffy Systemics, (G. Minati, M. Abram and E. Pessa, eds.), Springer, New York,
pp. 211-219 http://www.springer.com/kr/book/9783319243894
9. Minati, G., (2015), Approcci per agire su unicità complesse emergenti, L'Arco di Giano,
Vol. 82, pp. 41-52.
10. Minati, G., (2013), Prospective New Conceptual Categories, Acta Europeana Systemica
n. 3, https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES/article/view/57383/53833
11. Minati, G., (2013), Per una lettura scientifica delle contaminazioni Est-Ovest, In: Oriente-
Occidente: contaminazioni artistiche e tecnologiche (Sposito A. e Mangiarotti A., Eds.),
monografie di AGATHON, Vol. 4, pp. 149-152.
12. Minati, G., Licata, I, and Pessa, E., (2013), Meta-Structures: The Search of Coherence in
Collective Behaviours (without Physics), In: Alex Graudenzi, Giulio Caravagna,
Giancarlo Mauri and Marco Antoniotti: Proceedings Wivace 2013 - Italian Workshop on
Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation (Wivace 2013), Milan, Italy, July 1-2, 2013,
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 130, pp. 35-42
http://rvg.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/eptcs/paper.cgi?Wivace2013.6
13. Minati, G. (2013), Note di sintesi: novità, contributi, prospettive di ricerca dell’approccio
sistemico. In: Strutture di mondo. Il pensiero sistemico come specchio di una realtà
complessa -Volume II-, (L. Ulivi, Ed.), Il Mulino, Bologna, Italy, pp. 315-336.
https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815246363
14. Minati, G. (2012), Scelte manageriali: dal far funzionare dispositivi sociali all’emergenza,
In: Sistemi Modelli Organizzazioni – Management e Complessità, a cura di I. Licata,
Corisco pp.15-38. http://www.coriscoedizioni.it/tag/complessita/
15. Minati, G. (2011), Trans-disciplinarity and meta-structures to meta-model complexity of
social systems. In: Proceedings of the 8th European Union for Systemics (M. Bonami, P.
Bricage, A. Piecq and A. Steenhout), Acta Europeana Systemica, 1, On Line Journal of
The European Union for Systemics (EUS), http://aes.ues-
eus.eu/aes2011/enteteAES2011.html
16. Minati, G. (2012), First draft of an experimental protocol for research into Meta-Structural
properties in simulated collective behaviour. Research issues and possible applications.
In: Methods, Models, simulations and approaches towards a general theory of change,
(G. Minati, M. Abram and E. Pessa, eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 95-112.
17. Licata, I. and Minati, G., (2010), Creativity as Cognitive design - The case of mesoscopic
variables in Meta-Structures, In: Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts
(Alessandra M. Corrigan, ed.), Nova Publishers, New York, pp. 95-107
http://cogprints.org/6637/1/CreativityasDesign-NOVA.pdf
18. Minati, G. (2010), Sistemi: origini, ricerca e prospettive. In: Strutture di mondo. Il
pensiero sistemico come specchio di una realtà complessa -Volume I-, (L. Ulivi, Ed.), Il
Mulino, Bologna, Italy, pp. 15-46, https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815139856
19. Minati, G, (2009), The Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM) as theoretical-based
phenomenological tool to manage complexity and research framework. In: Cybernetics
and Systems Theory in Management: Tools, Views, and Advancements, (Steven E. Wallis.
Ed.), IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, pp. 176-190 https://www.igi-
global.com/chapter/dynamic-usage-models-dysam-theoretically/39328
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20. Minati, G., (2009), Acquired emergent properties, In: Proceedings of the Fourth National
Conference of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS), Processes of emergence of systems and
systemic properties. Towards a general theory of emergence (Minati G., Pessa E. and
Abram M, eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, pp. 625-640.
21. Minati, G., (2009), General theory of emergence - Beyond Systemic Generalization., In:
Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS),
Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties. Towards a general theory of
emergence (Minati G., Pessa E. and Abram M, eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, pp.
241-255.
22. Minati, G. and Magliocca, L.A., (2009), Inducing Systems Thinking in consumer
societies, In: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference of the Italian Systems Society
(AIRS), Processes of emergence of systems and systemic properties. Towards a general
theory of emergence (Minati G., Pessa E. and Abram M, eds.), World Scientific,
Singapore, pp. 283-297.
23. Minati, G., (2007), Émergence dans les Systèmes Complexes. In: La Gouvernance dans
les Systèmes. Polimetrica Publisher, Italy, pp.73-74.
24. Minati, G., (2006), Emergence of Collective Beings, Systemics, Collective Behaviours,
Dynamic Usage of Models, In: Seventh International Conference on Computing
Anticipatory Systems (Casys’05), Liège, Belgium, August 8-13, 2005, pp. 326-341.
25. Minati, G., (2006), Towards a Second Systemics, In: Systemics of Emergence:
Applications and Development (G. Minati, E. Pessa and M. Abram, eds.), Springer, New
York, pp. 667-682.
26. Minati, G., and Vitiello, G., (2006), Mistake Making Machines, In: Systemics of
Emergence: Applications and Development (G. Minati, E. Pessa and M. Abram, eds.),
Springer, New York, pp. 67-78.
27. Bruno, G., Minati, G., and Trotta, A., G., (2006), Uncertainty and the role of the observer,
In: Systemics of Emergence: Applications and Development (G. Minati, E. Pessa and M.
Abram, eds.), Springer, New York, pp. 653-666.
28. Minati, G., (2005), General systems theory as theory of emergence, In: Proceedings of
the 6th Systems Science European Congress, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers
(ENSAM), Sept. 19-22.
29. Minati, G., (2002), Ethics as emergent property of the behaviour of living systems.
In: Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Vol. 1, Physical Sciences Engineering
and Technology Resources, Systems Science and Cybernetics: The Long Road to World
Sociosystemicity, (Parra-Luna F. ed.), EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK
https://www.eolss.net/sample-chapters/c02/e6-46-01-06.pdf
30. Minati, G., (2002), Music and systems architecture, In: Proceedings of the 5th European
Systems Science Congress http://www.afscet.asso.fr/resSystemica/Crete02/Minati.pdf ,
Creta Maris Hotel, Hersonissos, Iraklion, Crete, Greece, October 16-19.
31. Minati, G., and Brahms, S., (2002), The Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM). In:
Emergence in Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems (G. Minati and E. Pessa,
eds.), Kluwer, New York, pp. 41-52.
32. Minati, G., (2002), Emergence and Ergodicity: a line of research, In: Emergence in
Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems, (G. Minati, E. Pessa, eds.), Kluwer,
New York, pp. 85-102.
33. Minati, G., and Ricciuti, A., (2002), Balancing and compensating equilibrium deficits in
beings provided with cognitive processing capabilities. Applications for disables, In:
Emergence in Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems, (G. Minati, E. Pessa,
eds.), Kluwer, New York, pp. 323-333.
34. Magliocca, L. A., and Minati, G., (2002), Transforming leadership through coalitions:
building the ethics of sustainable development in globalization, In: Emergence in
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Complex Cognitive, Social and Biological Systems, Proceedings of the Second Italian
Conference on Systemics, Kluwer, pp. 235-250.
35. Minati, G., (2001), The Concept of Emergence in Systemics. In: General Systems
Bulletin, International Society for the Systems Sciences, Cookeville, USA, Vol. 30: pp.
15-19.
36. Minati, G., (1998), Conceptual Frameworks for the Representation of Growth,
Development and Sustainable Development, In: Proceedings of the first Italian
Conference on Systemics (Editor: G. Minati), Apogeo, Milan, pp. 93-105.
37. Minati, G., Penna, M. P., and Pessa, E., (1997), A conceptual framework for self-
organization and merging processes in social systems. In: Systems For Sustainability:
People, Organisations and Environment, (F. A. Stowell, R. Ison, R. Armson, J. Holloway,
S. Jackson and S. McRobb, eds.), Plenum, New York, pp.271-275.
38. Minati, G., Penna, M. P., and Pessa, E., (1996), Towards a general theory of logically
open systems. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Systems Science European Congress, (E. Pessa,
M. P. Penna, A. Montesanto, eds.), Kappa, Rome, Italy, pp. 957-960.
39. Collen, A., Minati, G., Penna, M. P., and Pessa, E., (1996), Describing transcultural
activity in the framework of the systemic yiew, In: Proceedings of the 3rd Systems Science
European Congress, (E. Pessa, M. P. Penna, A. Montesanto, eds.), Kappa, Rome, Italy,
pp. 881-885.
40. Minati, G., and Resconi, G., (1996), Detecting Meaning, In: Proceedings of the 3rd
Systems Science European Congress, (E. Pessa, M. P. Penna, A. Montesanto, eds.),
Kappa, Rome, Italy, pp. 1097-1101.
41. Minati, G., (1995), Detecting Ethics in social systems, In: Critical issues in systems
theories and practice, (K. Ellis and A. Gregory, eds.), Plenum Press, New York, pp. 697-
701.
42. Collen, A., Minati, G. (1993). Openness in a General Process Model for Systems Design
in Education. In: Reigeluth, C.M., Banathy, B.H., Olson, J.R. (eds) Comprehensive
Systems Design: A New Educational Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 95. Springer,
Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58035-2_21
A selection of edited books since 2004
1. Minati, G., Penna, M.P. (Eds.), (2024), Multiple Systems: Complexity and Coherence in
Ecosystems, Collective Behavior, and Social Systems, Springer, New York, NY, USA
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031446849
2. Minati, G. (Ed.), (2021), Multiplicity and Interdisciplinarity - Essays in Honor of Eliano
Pessa, Springer, New York, NY, USA
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030718763
3. Minati, G., Abram, M, and Pessa, G., (eds.), (2019), Systemics of Incompleteness and
Quasi-systems, Springer, New York. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030152765
4. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Licata, I., (eds.), 2017, Second Generation General System
Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems. MDPI,
Switzerland http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/325
5. Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2016), Towards a post-Bertalanffy
Systemics. Springer, New York http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-
24391-7 .
6. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Licata, I., (eds.), 2014, Special Issue on Second Generation
General System Theory, Systems, MDPI, Switzerland
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/special_issues/second-generation-general-
system-theory
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7. Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2012), Methods, Models, simulations and
approaches - towards a general theory of change. World Scientific, Singapore
http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8352
8. Minati, G., Abram, M. and Pessa, E., (eds.), (2009), Processes of emergence of systems
and systemic properties. Towards a general theory of emergence. World Scientific,
Singapore.
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/6763
9. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Abram, M., (eds.), (2006), Systemics of Emergence:
Research and Applications. Springer, New York.
http://www.springer.com/west/home/business/organization?SGWID=4-40522-22-
72684205-0
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dD-
mf5Ut7bUC&pg=PA681&dq=minati&hl=it&sa=X&ei=0qUOUdD7OIrWsgbOsoHIBw
&ved=0CC8Q6AEwATgK
10. Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (eds.) (2002), Emergence in Complex Cognitive, Social and
Biological Systems. Kluwer, New York.
http://www.springer.com/west/home/business/organization?SGWID=4-40522-22-
33336272-0
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ksZO5Bw5MU0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=minati
&hl=it&sa=X&ei=qKQOUe3rI9DFtAbTooDADQ&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg
11. Minati, G., (ed.), (1998), Proceedings of the first Italian Conference on Systemics,
Apogeo scientifica, Milan, Italy. http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/scienza-sistemi-
progettare-uno-sviluppo/libro/9788873034322
12. Von Bertalanffy, L., General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications.
New York, George Braziller, 1968 - Preface by Minati G. to the republication of Italian
edition, Oscar Saggi Mondadori, (2004). http://www.webster.it/libri-
teoria_generale_sistemi_fondamenti_sviluppo-9788804533429.htm
A selection of authored and co-authored books since 1983
1. Minati, G. (2024), Breve viaggio nell’Intelligenza Artificiale. Dal calcolare risultati al
calcolare proprietà. Epistemologia, forme molteplici, aspetti tecnici, limiti, implicazioni.
Quaderni dell’Associazione Italiana di Epistemologia e Metodologia Sistemiche.
https://www.aiems.eu/pubblicazioni/quaderni-dellaiems/qa05
2. Minati, G. (2021), Parole di Sistemica. Quaderni dell’Associazione Italiana di
Epistemologia e Metodologia Sistemiche (AIEMS).
https://www.aiems.eu/pubblicazioni/quaderni-dellaiems/qa01
3. Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (2018), From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems. Springer, New
York. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9781493975792
https://books.google.it/books?id=oq9JDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=from+co
llective+beings+to+quasi-
systems&source=bl&ots=OG_L_hwrJa&sig=N7UyVxZgXZKb8Dsn_Va_MBckXGA&hl=i
t&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFyZS-
9O3ZAhULtRQKHdmRDgwQ6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q=from%20collective%20beings%
20to%20quasi-systems&f=false
4. Minati, G., (2008), New Approaches for Modelling Emergence of Collective Phenomena -
The Meta-structures project, Polimetrica, Milan. Open Access Publication
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N4cdlzV1sSMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=minati&hl=
it&sa=X&ei=qKQOUe3rI9DFtAbTooDADQ&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBQ
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5. Guberman S. and Minati G. (2007), Dialogue about systems”, Polimetrica, Milan, Italy,
Open Access Publication
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xUSxSLveQGUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=minati&hl
=it&sa=X&ei=7qMOUbGhKcqLswaGp4CICw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg
6. Minati, G., and Pessa, E., (2006), Collective Beings. Springer, New York.
http://books.google.it/books?id=OetFAAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22collective
+beings%22+minati+pessa+2006&hl=it&sa=X&ei=5umuUp7AEOW_ywOWs4DIDA&red
ir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22collective%20beings%22%20minati%20pessa%202006&f=fal
se
7. Di Battista, V., Giallocosta, G., and Minati, G., (eds.), (2006), Architettura e Approccio
Sistemico, Polimetrica, Milan, Italy.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RP74FlO5S6EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=minati&hl=
it&sa=X&ei=qKQOUe3rI9DFtAbTooDADQ&ved=0CFMQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=mina
ti&f=false
8. Minati, G., (2004), Teoria Generale dei Sistemi, Sistemica, Emergenza: un’introduzione. -
Progettare e Processi Emergenti: Frattura o Connubio per l’Architettura?, Polimetrica,
Milan, Italy.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gi5WKl2Dq5wC&printsec=frontcover&dq=minati&hl
=it&sa=X&ei=qKQOUe3rI9DFtAbTooDADQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
9. Minati, G. (2001), Esseri Collettivi, Apogeo scientifica, Milan, Italy.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=08wVcL1kkkkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22esseri+
collettivi%22+minati&source=bl&ots=zWvZta92yt&sig=VPWJhuhfkpLp6WMXFPYoUkp
vG4A&hl=en&ei=QOuJTIfXDIvFswbI7u2iAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum
=2&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://sites.google.com/site/tukelnivelesva3/9788873039051-83inenGEbocom97
10. Minati G. (1999), Introdution à la Systémique, French edition of the book "Introduzione alla
sistemica (translated by Evelyne Andreewshy), http://www.afscet.asso.fr select Textes de
référence.
11. Minati, G., (1998), Sistemica, Apogeo scientifica, Milan, Italy.
http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/sistemica-etica-virtualita-didattica-
economia/libro/9788873034131
12. Minati, G., and Collen A., (1997), Introduction to Systemics, Eagleye Books, San Francisco,
http://www.amazon.ca/Introduction-Systemics-Gianfranco-
Minati/dp/0924025069/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199559278&sr=8-3 .
13. Minati, G., (1996a), Introduzione alla sistemica, Kappa Edizioni, Rome.
14. Minati, G., (1996b), Introduction a la systemique, (traduit par Evelyne Andreewsky),
available by clicking on http://www.res-systemica.org/afscet/resSystemica/sysminat1.html
15. Minati G., (1989) La Complessità Aziendale, Eurosystem-Gruppo San Paolo di Torino,
Milan.
http://opac.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/opac/controller.jsp;jsessionid=8D715F6B8902CDAFAAB7B
76415C6DC68?action=notizia_view¬izia_idn=cfi0177334&query_action=search_byde
weysearch&query_filterterm=&query_position=7858&query_maxposition=8081&query_or
derby=&query_filterterm=&query_querystring_1=658*&query_fieldname_1=coddewey
16. Minati G., (1986), Knowledge, Management, Computer, Ipsoa-scuola d’impresa, N° 7 ,
Milan. http://opac.regione.veneto.it/SebinaOpac/resource/knowledge-management-
computer/VIA0015736?tabDoc=tabloca
17. Minati G., (1983), Le tecnologie dell’informatica nell’era del discontinuo, Soiel
International, Milan.
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A selection of papers since 1994
1. Minati, G., (2024), De-emergence: Experimental Approaches to Deactivate Processes of
Emergence, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 23(12), 367-381, 2024,
https://doi.org/10.37394/23202.2024.23.40
2. Minati, G., (2024), Linked Links-A Research Project: The Multiple Superimposed Soft
Networks as Network Profiles" Systems 12 (8), 303; Available at
https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12080303
3. Minati, G., (2023), Theoretical Reflections on Reductionism and Systemic Research Issues:
Dark Systems and Systemic Domain, Systems, 2024, 12(1), 2; Available at
https://doi.org/10.3390/systems12010002
4. Minati, G., Giuliani, A., Roli, A. (eds., in progress), 2023, Special Issue "Theoretical Issues
on Systems Science", Systems, MDPI, Switzerland
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/special_issues/9I82555138
5. Minati, G., (2023), Systemic Issues on the Intelligence of Matter, Intelligence, and Life. The
Game of Acquired Intelligent Life, International Journal of Biology and Biomedicine, 8, 1-
12, ISSN: 2367-9085 https://www.iaras.org/iaras/filedownloads/ijbb/2023/021-
0001(2023).pdf
6. Minati, G., (2022), The vacuum as imaginary space. The unreasonable effectiveness of
complex numbers, Proof, (2), 187-201; https://doi.org/10.37394/232020.2022.2.25
7. Minati, G., (2022), The role of the excluded, Philosophies, 7(4), 83;
https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies7040083
8. Minati, G., (2022), Systems, complex systems, and intelligence: An educational overview,
WSEAS Transactions on Advances in Engineering Education, vol. 19, pp. 87-108, DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37394/232010.2022.19.10
9. Minati, G., (2022), Interactions and Interaction Mechanisms as Generators of Complex
Systems, WSEAS Transactions on Proof, vol. 2, pp. 96-107, 2022Proof, vol. 2, pp. 96-107,
https://doi.org/10.37394/232020.2022.2.12
10. Minati, G., (2021), On Modelling the Structural Quasiness of Complex Systems, WSEAS
Transactions on Systems and Control, vol. 16, pp. 715-734,
https://doi.org/10.37394/23203.2021.16.65
11. Minati, G., (2021), A Note on the Reality of Incomputable Real Numbers and Its Systemic
Significance, Systems, 9(2), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems9020044
12. Minati, G., (2021), Letter to Matter and Various Incomprehensibilities—The Effective
Ethicality of Scientific and Humanistic Interdisciplinarity, Philosophies, 6(2),
26; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies6020026
13. Minati, G., (2021), Towards a General Theory of Change: a cybernetic and philosophical
understanding, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI), Special Issue,
Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol- 19(4), pp. 82-93
https://www.iiisci.org/journal/pdv/sci/pdfs/IP134LL21.pdf
14. Minati, G., (2020). Growth and Development: A possible systemic understanding, Acta
Europeana Systemica
https://www.academia.edu/82576993/Growth_and_Development_A_possible_systemic_und
erstanding
15. Minati, G., (2020), Meta-rules for Networks, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics (JSCI), Vol. 18(6), http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/Contents.asp , pp. 37-40
http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/FullText.asp?var=&id=IP097LL20
16. Minati, G., (2020), Democracy as consensus? The case of artificial consensus, Acta
Europeana Systemica 6: pp. 59-62 https://doi.org/10.14428/aes.v6i1.56823
17. Minati, G., (2020), Complex Cognitive Systems and Their Unconscious. Related Inspired
Conjectures for Artificial Intelligence, Future Internet, 12(12), 213
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https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12120213, in https://www.mdpi.com/1999-
5903/12/12?utm_source=releaseissue&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=releaseissue_f
utureinternet&utm_term=coverlink Section Smart System Infrastructure and Applications
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/sections/smart_system_infrastructure_applicati
ons
18. Minati, G., (2019), A conceptual proposal on the undecidability of the distribution law of
prime numbers and theoretical consequences, Ratio Mathematica, vol. 37, pp. 69-84,
http://dx.doi.org/10.23755/rm.v37i0.480
19. Minati, G., (2019), A controversial issue: the intelligence of matter as residue? A possible
understanding. Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR), 23(1), pp.
17139-17140 https://doi.org/10.26717/BJSTR.2019.23.003848
20. Minati, G., (2019), Non-classical Systemics of quasi-coherence: from formal properties to
representations of generative mechanisms. A conceptual introduction to a paradigm-shift.
Systems,7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/systems7040051
21. Minati, G., (2019), On Theoretical Incomprehensibility. Philosophies, 4(3),
https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies4030049 , Special Issue Philosophy and Epistemology
of Deep Learning https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies/special_issues/deep_learning
22. Minati, G., (2019), Big Data: From Forecasting to Mesoscopic Understanding. Meta-
Profiling as Complex Systems. Systems, 7(1), 8, https://doi.org/10.3390/systems7010008
23. Lella, L., Licata, I., Minati, G., Pristipino, C., De Belvis, A.G. and Pastorino R., (2019),
Predictive AI Models for the Personalized Medicine. In: Proceedings of the 12th
International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies
(BIOSTEC 2019), pages 396-401, https://doi.org/10.5220/0007472203960401
24. Minati, G., (2018), The non-systemic usages of systems as reductionism. Quasi-systems and
Quasi-Systemics, Systems, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6030028
25. Claeys, D.; Minati, G. A systems thinking approach of crises: From optimization to change
strategy? 2018, Acta Europeana Systemica, n.8, Available at
https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES/article/view/56173/52673
26. Minati, G. (2018), Knowledge to manage the knowledge society: complexity and the
systemic concept of crisis. Acta Europeana Systemica, n.8
https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES/article/view/56183
27. Minati, G., (2018), Introduzione alla fenomenologia dell’emergenza, Rivista di Filosofia
Neo-Scolastica, CX, 4, pp. 713-725.
28. Minati, G., (2018), Capire come missione di specie e il diritto a sperare, Confronti, 6, pp.
31-33 http://www.confronti.net/
29. Minati, G., (2017), The Past, Present and Possible Future for Systems, International Journal
of Systems and Society (IJSS), Vol. 4 (1), pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSS.2017010101
30. Minati, G., (2017), Tentative guidelines for the implementation of meta-structural and
network software models of collective behaviours, http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07174
31. Minati, G., (2016), Introduzione al pensiero sistemico e ai suoi recenti sviluppi, Rivista di
Filosofia Neo-Scolastica, 2, (Aprile-Giugno), pp. 271-276.
http://www.vitaepensiero.it/scheda-articolo_digital/gianfranco-minati/introduzione-al-
pensiero-sistemico-e-ai-suoirecenti-sviluppi-001050_2016_0002_0271-334049.html
32. Minati, G., Pessa, E., and Licata, I., Special Issue, Guest Editors, (2016), Second Generation
General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems,
Systems, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/special_issues/sggst
33. Minati, G., (2016), Knowledge to Manage the Knowledge Society: The Concept of
Theoretical Incompleteness, Systems, 4(3), pp. 1-
19. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems4030026
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34. Licata, I., and Minati, G. (2016), Emergence, Computation and the Freedom Degree Loss
Information Principle in Complex Systems. Foundations of Science, Vol. 21(3), pp. 1-19.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-016-9503-x
35. Minati, G., Zanotti, F. and Martinoli, L., (2016), Approccio direttivo, Riflessioni Sistemiche,
Vol. 14, pp. 58 - 73
http://www.aiems.eu/files/6_rif_sist_14_-_minati_zanotti_martinoli_pdf.pdf
36. Minati, G., (2015), The social field designed by architecture, Acta Europeana Systemica, Vol.
5, http://aes.ues-eus.eu/aes2015/enteteAES2015.html
37. Minati, G. and Licata, I., (2015), Meta-Structures as MultiDynamics Systems Approach.
Some introductory outlines, Journal on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI), Vol.
13 (4), 35-38, http://www.iiisci.org/journal/sci/issue.asp?is=ISS1504
38. Claeys, Damien ; Lambert, Claude ; Minati, Gianfranco ; Piecq, André (2015). Systemic
continuities and interactions between architecture and social systems. In: Acta Europeana
Systemica, Vol. 5, p. 100pp http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/182810 -- DOI : 10.14428/aes.v5i1
39. Cesario, A., et al., Minati, G., (2014), A Systems Medicine Clinical Platform for
Understanding and Managing Non- Communicable Diseases, Current Pharmaceutical
Design, Vol. 20 (38), pp. 5945 – 5956
https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666140314130449
40. Minati, G. and Pessa, E., Special Issue, Guest Editors, (2014), Towards a Second Generation
General System Theory, Systems,
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems/special_issues/second-generation-general-system-
theory
41. Minati, G., (2014), The project as a system. Inducing emergence of a system rather than
designing a system. Acta Europeana Systemica, Vol. 4
https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/AES/article/view/57053
42. Minati, G. (2013), The post-industrial societies dealing with complexity: Knowledge to
manage the knowledge society, Acta Europeana Systemica, Vol. 3 http://aes.ues-
eus.eu/aes2013/enteteAES2013.html
43. Minati, G. and Licata, I., (2013), Emergence as Mesoscopic Coherence, Systems, Vol. 1(4),
50-65. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems1040050
44. Minati, G., (2012), Introduction to the meta-structures project: prospective applications,
World Futures, Vol. 68 (8), 558 - 574. https://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2012.730431
45. Minati, G., (2012), Approaches and principles of the Meta-Structures Project: the
mesoscopic dynamics, -Notes for software and models designers- arXiv:1201.1475v2 .
46. Minati, G. and Licata, I., (2012), Meta-Structural properties in Collective Behaviours, The
International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 41 (3), 289-311.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03081079.2011.651136
47. Minati, G., (2012), Knowledge to manage the Knowledge Society, Learning Organisation,
The, Vol. 19 (4), 352 – 370. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696471211226725
48. Minati, G., (2012), Guest editor, Special Issue: Knowledge to manage the Knowledge
Society, Learning Organisation, The, Vol. 19 (4), start page: 296.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0969-6474/vol/19/iss/4
49. Collen, A. and Minati, G., (2011, unpublished), Creative Living as Health, Health as
Creative Living, and the Case Study of Seemingly Insurmountable Challenge.
http://www.arnecollen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Collen-Minati_2011.pdf
50. Minati, G., (2011), Quale conoscenza per gestire la complessità della società della
conoscenza?, Riflessioni Sistemiche, pp.122-137, http://www.aiems.eu/files/minati_5.pdf
51. Minati, G. and Licata, I., (2010), Meta-Structural properties in Collective phenomena.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5573
52. Minati, G., (2010), Lettera alla Materia, http://www.aiems.eu/files/gianfranco_minati_-
_lettera_alla_materia.pdf.
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53. Minati, G., (2010), L’efficacia della violenza cognitiva,
http://www.aiems.eu/files/saggio_minati_2_saggi_vari.pdf
54. Licata I. and Minati G, (2010), Creativity as Cognitive design-The case of mesoscopic
variables in Meta-Structures, in “Creativity: Fostering, Measuring and Contexts” edited by
Alessandra M. Corrigan, Nova Publishers, New York. Draft available at
http://cogprints.org/6637/
55. Minati, G., (2009), Steps of the meta-structures project to model general processes of
emergence (1)- Theoretical frameworks, the mesoscopic general vector, future lines of
research and possible applications- http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0910/0910.1753.pdf
56. Di Battista, V., Giallocosta, G. and Minati, G., (2010), L’auto-architettura dei sistemi
sociali, In: Ricerche ISTea Verso un’edilizia ‘ragionevole’, a cura di Pietro Capone, Ed.
Medicea, Firenze. http://www.deastore.com/libro/ricerche-istea-verso-un-edilizia-
%C2%ABragionevole%C2%BB-p-capone-medicea/9788890174483.html
57. Minati, G., (2009), L’incertezza nella gestione della complessità, Riflessioni Sistemiche, 1,
pp.91-100 http://www.aiems.eu/files/documento_gianfranco_minati.pdf
http://www.aiems.eu/archivio/files/rs_1_def.pdf .
58. Minati, G., (2009), The meta-structures project,
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0903/0903.0592.pdf
59. Minati, G. and Collen, A., (2009), Architecture as the Cybernetic Self-Design of Boundary
Conditions for Emergent Properties in Human Social Systems, Cybernetics & Human
Knowing, 16, (1-2):101-123
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/chk/2009/00000016/F0020001/art00007
60. Minati, G., (2008), Systemic Properties: acquisition and persistence over time, In:
Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the UES, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008. Available at
www.afscet.asso.fr/resSystemica/Lisboa08/minati.pdf
61. Minati, G., (2008), Processes of structured and non-structured interactions, phase transitions,
self-organisation and emergence, In: Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the UES, Lisbon,
Portugal, 2008. Available at
http://www.afscet.asso.fr/resSystemica/Lisboa08/MinatiLisboa08SelfEmergence.pdf
62. Minati, G. (2008), Cities as Collective Beings. World Futures 64(8): pp. 577–589.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02604020802510945
63. Minati, G., (2007), Verso una scienza costruttivista, Dedalus, Anno 2(2-3): pp. 80-88
http://www.quantumbionet.org/admin/files/EmergenzedellaComplessita.pdf
64. Minati, G., (2007), Some new theoretical issues in Systems Thinking relevant for modelling
corporate learning, The Learning Organization (TLO), Emerald, Vol. 14(6): pp. 480-488.
65. Minati, G., (2006a), Time, processes and cycles. In: The New Roles of Systems Sciences for
a Knowledge-based Society, Proceedings of the first World Congress of the International
Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), Nov. 14-17, 2005, Kobe, Japan, pp. 417-419
https://www.academia.edu/25018989/Time_processes_and_cycles
66. Minati, G., (2006b), Multiple Systems, Collective Beings, and the Dynamic Usage of
Models, Systemist, Vol. 28(2): pp. 200-211.
67. Minati, G., (2006c), Some Comments on Democracy and Manipulating Consent in Western
Post-Democratic Societies. In: Systemics of Emergence: Research and Applications, (Minati
G., Pessa E., and Abram M. eds.). Springer: New York, pp. 569-584.
68. Pessa, E., Penna, M.P. and Minati, G. (2005), Collective phenomena in Living Systems and
in Social Organization, Chaos and Complexity Letters, Vol. 1(2): pp. 179-189.
69. Minati, G., (2004), Buying consensus in “free markets”, World Futures, Vol. 60(1-2): pp.
29-37.
70. Minati, G. (2004), From evolutionary consciousness to conscious evolution. Are we in
control? World Futures, Vol. 60(8): pp. 567-575.
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71. Della Torre, S., and Minati, G., (2004), Conservazione e recupero del costruito, Il Progetto
Sostenibile, Edicom Edizioni, Vol. 2(2): pp. 12-17.
72. Minati, G., Penna M. P., and Pessa E. (1998). Thermodynamic and Logical Openness in
General Systems. Systems Research and Behavioral Science, John Wiley and Sons Ltd.,
Vol. 15(3): pp. 131-145.
73. Collen, A., Minati, G. and Ciapessoni, E. (1994), Logical openness in systems. Syst. Res.,
11(2): 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3850110206
A selection of lectures (2008-)
1. Systemics and complexity: concepts and approaches for Architecture, University La
Sapienza, Rome, May 31, 2021 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t9ySIF_hTJPQPE-
doPUEibhSisGL_aN9/view
2. Systemics and complexity: concepts and approaches for Architecture, University La
Sapienza, Rome, February, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLrxf0iOEgA
3. Principles of Systemics, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, March
29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_A-JBkE7M&t=1326s
4. President of the 2017 Conference of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS)
http://www.airs.it/AIRS/indexIT.htm Congress Opening
5. Systemics and complexity: concepts and approaches for Architecture, Polytechnic of Milan,
Dec. 9, 2015 https://www.slideshare.net/secret/t4YqyzBMkNe7cI
6. Systemic continuity and interaction among architecture and social systems, Bruxelles, 16
October 2015, http://www.ues-
eus.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=170&lang=en
7. L’uragano e la farfalla tra scienza e cura, Gallarate, VA, 16 Aprile 2015, Incertezza e
complessità,
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205404039092985&set=pcb.1020540404893
3231&type=1&theater
8. 9ème congrès de l'Union Européenne de Systémique, Valencia, 15 October 2014, Inducing
emergence of a system rather than designing a system http://aes.ues-
eus.eu/aes2014/enteteAES2014.html
9. Medicina Personalizzata: scienza, arte e organizzazione, Rome, 10 June, 2014, Approcci per
agire su unicità complesse emergenti,
http://www.istitutostudisanitari.it/images/pdf/programma-medicina-personalizzata.pdf
10. European Systemics Seminars 2013 - Knowledge for the future of the knowledge society
http://www.ues-
eus.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=172&lang=en
11. Polytechnic University of Milan/Department 'Building Environment Sciences and
Technology', 2010 doctoral lectures on systems science
http://www.aiems.eu/link_consigliati.html
12. 8ème congrès de l'Union Européenne de Systémique, Bruxelles, 20 October 2011, Trans-
disciplinarity and meta-structures to meta-model complexity of social systems http://aes.ues-
eus.eu/aes2011/enteteAES2011.html
13. Primo Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Epistemologia e Metodologia
Sistemiche, Rome, Dall’incertezza certa all’incertezza incerta: la Sistemica dell’emergenza
come strategia cognitive, 13 marzo 2010,
http://www.aiems.eu/media_gallery/prima_parte.html
http://www.aiems.eu/media_gallery/seconda_parte.html
http://www.aiems.eu/media_gallery/terza_parte.html
http://www.aiems.eu/media_gallery/quarta_parte.html
http://www.aiems.eu/media_gallery/quinta_parte.html
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14. Creative Living as Health, Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, CA (Rabbi Graetz), 6 April, 2008
http://www.arnecollen.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Collen-Minati_2011.pdf
5. Short CV
Gianfranco Minati, mathematician and systems scientist, has switched from a position as executive
in a large industrial-financial Italian group (1979-1984) to Research. He is founder (1996) and
president of the Italian Systems Society (AIRS); Member of the scientific committee of Conferences
and Systems Societies; Doctoral lecturer (2000-2017) at the Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. Editor of the
Springer Contemporary Systems Thinking book series; Springer author, he is author of 42 chapters in
books; editor of 12 books; author or co-author of 17 books; author of 73 articles and of academic
publications. His current research interest focuses on Architecture and Design as social meta-
structures to influence processes of emergence in social systems, Artificial Unconscious in AI,
Complex Systems, Dynamic Usage of Models (DYSAM), Emergence and de-emergence, Logical
Openness, Mesoscopic Coherence, Meta-structures, Multiple-Systems, Quasi-systems, and
Theoretical incompleteness.
See more: http://www.gianfrancominati.net/
