https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1223 Index terms fr 0 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3123 The paper deals with a certain fragment of global economic undertakings. This fragment involves methods applied in anticipating future states of processes and effects which these processes cause. These methods have been worked out in the last 100 years and were based on research carried out by companies operating on homogeneous local markets. They are used to analyze single financial, manufacturing, technical, social and other problems. Some of them allow to discover the effect of mutual influence of individual processes, namely, the effect of synergy. However, most of these methods are totally unsuitable for analyzing current global economy. The aim of the paper is to point out certain particular possibilities of improving the existing situation, at least partially. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:58:52 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:23:52 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=3123 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2128 In social systems, meaning can be communicated in addition to underlying processes of the information exchange. Meaning processing incurs on information processing with hindsight, while information processing recursively follows the time axis. The sole assumption of social relatedness as a variable among goups of agents provides sufficient basis for deriving the logistic map as a first-order approximation of the social system. The anticipatory formulation of this equation can be derived for both anticipation in the interaction term and in the aggregation among subgroups. Using this formula in a cellular automaton, an observer is generated as a reflection of the system under observation. The social system of interactions among observations can improve on the representations entertained by each of the observing systems. Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:47:25 +0200 Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:47:33 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=2128 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1220 When the current performances of a social system are reckoned as unsatisfactory and not complying with its expected evolution or if their trends appear to result in an unsustainable future, the problem consists in defining a change for reaching a better behaviour. Significant changes in the evolution are possibly obtained by discontinuities, which may be concerned with drastic changes in the policy and/or in the system structure. This paper introduces the paradigm of managing the changes by discontinuities, which we can identify and treat by computer simulation according to a heuristic approach, which involves forecasting, backcasting and optimization tools. Finally, such an approach is discussed from an anticipatory point of view. Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:50:46 +0200 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:50:54 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/3041-539x/index.php?id=1220