Ing Ren Tsang     &     Ing Jyh Tsang

At the "1st International Conference on Complex Systems" done by the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) in Nashua, New Hampshire in September 1997, among the extraordinary and excellent presentations there was one in particular which struck a resonant chord with my own work and which I would like to bring to your attention.

Ever since my initial 1972/3 synthesis of the basic notions of the Integrity Paradigm, I always held in abeyance the idea that the MainCurve - similar to the gaussian bell-curve - was in reality not as bi-laterally symmetric as the gaussian.  I always present the diagram as a general schematic therefore (to help visualize the fact that dynamic systems are poised in a generous range balancing information/energy content with i/e capacities), rather than a de facto and fixed model of those factors.  Because information flux is always dynamic, the relational model should be also.

It was gratifying therefore to hear and see the results of the brothers, Ing Ren Tsang and Ing Jyh Tsang, PhD candidate researchers at VisieLab, University of Antwerp (RUCA) - Belgium.  They did a beautiful analysis of stable states of complex fractal systems, showing the result that a gaussian style curve indeed exists for several interactive parameters - a slightly skewed bell curve with a broad high-node at around  60-65% (towards increased information content).   Speaking with them after their talk, they said they had only completed evaluations on primarily static systems, and had not yet looked at whether or not that bias or imbalance can impose dynamic motivation on general system behaviors - drive behavioral tendencies in certain directions, so to speak.

I would intuit that this dis-symmetry which they've discovered is in fact a formidible and important relationship, contributing to many aspects of how and why some complex systems are organized and sustain functional momentum.  It is subtle and thrilling work.

I do not have a version of their talk available for this webpage as of yet, but refer you to their VisieLab website at <http://wcc.ruca.ua.ac.be/~deboeck/VisionLab>, and also to the NECSI home page (http://necsi.org) for further information.

!!!  (Jan 21,1998 :  Just received an email from the Tsang's.  Their ICCS paper is available in
          PostScript and in TeX at <http://wcc.ruca.ua.ac.be/~inden/iccs/front.html>    !!!

 

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