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Cezary Wojcik

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Pavel and Pim, I met Cezary in Lyon when GEF co-organized the Ashoka Global Change Leaders meeting in Jan 2018. Cezary is a Professor who got out of his academic life and founded:
https://center-for-leadership.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUb9zXO15Y

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Cezary Wojcik

2025-10-23T07:03:59Z

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'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto<ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref>https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe<ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament<ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatigue of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]], they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behaviour of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

The Human Quality

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The Human Quality (1977) – Single Page Summary
Author: Aurelio Peccei | Founder of the Club of Rome

🎯 Central Message
The survival of humanity and the future of civilization depend not on technological or institutional fixes, but on the development of a new human quality—a profound transformation in how we think, feel, relate, and act. Without this inner evolution, no outer solution will be sustainable.

🔑 Key Ideas and Insights
1. The Real Crisis Is Within Us
Peccei identifies a "global problematique" of crises—environmental degradation, economic inequality, war, alienation, cultural fragmentation.

But he argues these are not external causes—they are manifestations of a deeper crisis of being.

Humanity has become dangerously powerful without becoming wiser, more ethical, or more self-aware.

2. The Need for a New Human Quality
“The human quality” refers to an inner capacity: for compassion, responsibility, foresight, humility, and solidarity.

We must cultivate a planetary consciousness—a shift from ego and tribe to species and planet.

This is not utopian idealism, but a survival imperative.

3. Limits to Institutional Reform
Political and institutional reforms are necessary, but insufficient.

Without a change in the consciousness and character of individuals, institutions will reproduce the same problems.

The revolution we need is ethical and existential, not merely political or economic.

4. Learning, Reflection, and Global Ethics
Peccei calls for a lifelong process of learning, reflection, and dialogue across cultures.

Education systems must help people make meaning, cultivate wisdom, and care for the Earth and future generations.

He anticipates the later Club of Rome report No Limits to Learning and aligns with thinkers like Paulo Freire and Ivan Illich.

5. A Spiritual Awakening (Without Dogma)
Though secular in tone, Peccei appeals to a deep spiritual awakening—a rediscovery of purpose, reverence for life, and moral clarity.

He emphasizes interconnectedness, drawing inspiration from both Eastern and Western traditions.

🌍 Conclusion
The Human Quality is both a warning and a call to greatness. Peccei insists that we have the capacity to transform ourselves, but time is short. The most urgent revolution is not of machines, systems, or ideologies—but of the human being.

The Chasm Ahead

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The Chasm Ahead (1974) – Single Page Summary
Author: Aurelio Peccei | Founder of the Club of Rome

🎯 Central Message
Humanity stands before a vast and dangerous “chasm” between its rapidly increasing material powers and its insufficient moral, cultural, and intellectual capacities. Unless we bridge this chasm through a profound transformation of consciousness and responsibility, global collapse—social, ecological, and political—is inevitable.

🔑 Key Arguments and Insights
1. The Human Gap
Humanity has made tremendous technological progress, but lacks the wisdom to govern this power responsibly.

This “gap” between outer capability and inner maturity is the core of all major global crises.

It is not external limits that threaten us most, but internal limitations in vision, cooperation, and ethics.

2. Interconnected Crises Require Systems Thinking
The challenges we face (pollution, poverty, war, alienation) are not separate problems—they are symptoms of a deeper systemic disorder.

We need to shift from fragmented, short-term fixes to holistic, anticipatory approaches.

3. Rejection of Fatalism
Peccei does not believe in doom as destiny. He insists that humans have the capacity to learn, adapt, and choose a better path.

But this requires courage to rethink core assumptions: about growth, progress, education, governance, and even identity.

4. The Role of the Club of Rome
The Club of Rome was founded not to provide technical answers, but to stimulate global dialogue and awareness.

Peccei saw it as a “bridge-builder” between disciplines, nations, generations—and most importantly, between knowledge and action.

5. Call for a Human Revolution
Bridging the chasm is not about better tools but about better humans.

We must cultivate what he calls “the human quality”: awareness, empathy, foresight, humility, and a sense of global stewardship.

This transformation must begin with education, self-reflection, and new institutions that reflect planetary ethics.

🌍 Conclusion
The Chasm Ahead is a prophetic appeal to reorient civilization around its deepest responsibility: to evolve itself. It warns that if we continue with business as usual, we will fall into the chasm. But if we awaken and act wisely, we can create a future worthy of humanity’s highest aspirations.

Aurelio Peccei

2025-07-23T13:59:59Z

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When Aurelio Peccei, the founder of the Club of Rome, spoke of "the human revolution," he was not referring to a political or technological revolution, but to a fundamental transformation in human consciousness, values, and behavior—a deep cultural and ethical shift.

==What Peccei Meant by “The Human Revolution”==
In his writings—especially "The Human Quality" (1977) and in the spirit of No Limits to Learning—Peccei argued that:

The crises of our time—environmental degradation, poverty, inequality, war, and alienation—are symptoms of a deeper problem: a failure of the human being to evolve in step with the systems they’ve created.

Thus, the human revolution was the internal, moral, and psychological transformation needed to match the outer transformations (industrialization, science, globalization). Specifically, it implied:

==Key Elements of the Human Revolution==
A shift from egoism to global responsibility

Moving from nationalistic, individualistic mindsets to planetary awareness and solidarity.

A shift from materialism to meaning and sustainability

Prioritizing long-term well-being and human development over GDP or short-term gain.

A shift from reactive to anticipatory consciousness

Cultivating foresight, learning, and proactive systems thinking.

A shift from fragmented to holistic thinking

Integrating disciplines, cultures, and sectors to deal with interconnected global challenges.

A moral and spiritual awakening

Recognizing the intrinsic dignity of every human and the interconnectedness of life.

Peccei’s Own Words (from The Human Quality, 1977):
“We must now move toward a higher form of human evolution: not physical or biological this time, but moral, spiritual, and intellectual... It is the only way to close the human gap.”

Aurelio Peccei (1908–1984) was not only the founder of the Club of Rome, but also a visionary systems thinker, business leader, and global advocate for a new kind of human responsibility. Below is a timeline of his major contributions, showing how his ideas evolved and influenced global thinking:

🗓️ Timeline of Major Contributions by Aurelio Peccei
1908
Born in Turin, Italy

Educated in economics and engineering. Early career included work with Fiat and Olivetti.

1940s–50s
Resistance fighter & international businessman

Participated in the Italian anti-fascist resistance during WWII.

Later worked globally for Fiat and Italconsult, including long periods in Latin America and China, gaining firsthand insights into development disparities.

1965–1968
Begins expressing concern about global systemic crises

Observes unsustainable growth, inequality, and a loss of ethical direction in modern society.

1968
🔹 Founds the Club of Rome

At a meeting in Rome with Alexander King and others, Peccei helps create this influential global think tank.

Mission: Address humanity’s long-term problems through interdisciplinary and holistic inquiry.

1972
📘 Supports publication of The Limits to Growth

The Club of Rome commissions MIT systems scientists (Meadows et al.) to model global futures.

The book becomes a landmark, warning that exponential growth in population, consumption, and pollution cannot continue indefinitely.

Peccei: "The intent was never prediction, but stimulation of global awareness."

1974
📗 The Chasm Ahead

Peccei's first major book. He warns of a growing “human gap”—the lag between our technological/institutional power and our wisdom to use it.

Advocates for a moral and cultural renewal to bridge that gap.

1977
📙 The Human Quality

His deepest philosophical statement.

Introduces the idea of “The Human Revolution”: a global transformation in human consciousness, ethics, and learning capacities.

Emphasizes that humanity must develop new inner capacities to match external complexity.

1979
📘 Supports No Limits to Learning (with Botkin, Elmandjra, Malitza)

First Club of Rome report on education

Reframes education as a lifelong, anticipatory, co-learning process

Key quote: “The learning society is not a utopia—it is a necessity.”

1980s
🕊️ Continues global advocacy

Promotes “anticipatory governance” and “responsible global citizenship” at UN, UNESCO, and in dialogues with global leaders.

Stresses the need for cross-cultural and cross-sectoral collaboration.

1984
🕯️ Death

Peccei dies in Rome. But his legacy inspires later Club of Rome reports such as:

Beyond the Limits (1992)

Come On! (2018)

Earth for All (2022)

🌍 Legacy and Impact
Aurelio Peccei left behind:

A model for transdisciplinary, values-based global foresight

A call to put human development and learning at the core of planetary survival

A recognition that the future depends less on technology and more on who we choose to become

==Why It Mattered==
Peccei saw that no technological fix or institutional reform would suffice without a transformation in how humans think, feel, and act. He called this the “missing piece” in the puzzle of solving the world’s problems.

Aurelio Peccei

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No Limits to Learning

2025-07-23T13:56:15Z

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No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap in a Complex World
Report to the Club of Rome, 1979
Authors: James Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, Mircea Malitza

No Limits to Learning (1979) was the first educational report to the [[Club of Rome]], authored by James Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, and Mircea Malitza. It’s a visionary and systemic work that emphasized learning as the critical human capacity to address the growing complexity and uncertainty of the global future.

==Central Thesis==
While natural resources have limits, human learning does not. To address accelerating global crises—ecological degradation, political instability, economic injustice—societies must shift from reactive to anticipatory learning. This is not just about knowledge acquisition, but about evolving our capacity to understand, adapt, and self-transform.

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==Key Ideas and Arguments==

====The Human Gap====
Technological and institutional development has outpaced human social, ethical, and cultural adaptation.

There is a “learning gap” between the speed of change and our collective ability to respond wisely.

Closing the human gap is more urgent than solving any specific technical problem.

====Four Modes of Learning====
The authors propose a typology of learning essential for systemic adaptation:

* Maintenance Learning – Preserves current systems; ensures stability.
* Shock Learning – Reactive learning triggered by crises.
* Innovation Learning – Enables proactive change; creative problem-solving.
* Anticipatory Learning – Enables societies to forecast, simulate, and prepare for long-term futures.

Only the latter two are sufficient to address global complexity.

====No Limits to Learning====
Human beings can learn continuously, not just through formal education but through social, cultural, and experiential systems.

Unlike material resources, learning is a renewable and expandable capacity—it grows through use and sharing.

The right to learn is foundational to democracy and global citizenship.

====From Teaching to Learning Societies====
The future lies in learning-centered societies, not teaching-centered ones.

Learning must be lifelong, life-wide, and community-embedded.

Educational systems must be restructured to foster self-directed learning, critical thinking, and collective intelligence.

====Global Solidarity and Mutual Learning====
The report calls for East-West and North-South collaboration in the co-evolution of knowledge and culture.

No single model of education or development is universally valid; all cultures must learn from and with each other.

True development means co-learning toward mutual sustainability, justice, and peace.

==Conclusion and Impact==
No Limits to Learning reframes the global crisis not as a shortage of resources, but as a deficit in imagination, foresight, and shared learning. It was groundbreaking in placing education and learning at the center of societal transformation—an idea that deeply influenced later work on futures studies, systems thinking, and the concept of learning societies.

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No Limits to Learning

2025-07-23T13:48:50Z

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No Limits to Learning: Bridging the Human Gap in a Complex World
Report to the Club of Rome, 1979
Authors: James Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, Mircea Malitza

No Limits to Learning (1979) was the first educational report to the [[Club of Rome]], authored by James Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, and Mircea Malitza. It’s a visionary and systemic work that emphasized learning as the critical human capacity to address the growing complexity and uncertainty of the global future.

==Central Thesis==
While natural resources have limits, human learning does not. To address accelerating global crises—ecological degradation, political instability, economic injustice—societies must shift from reactive to anticipatory learning. This is not just about knowledge acquisition, but about evolving our capacity to understand, adapt, and self-transform.

==Key Ideas and Arguments==

====The Human Gap====
Technological and institutional development has outpaced human social, ethical, and cultural adaptation.

There is a “learning gap” between the speed of change and our collective ability to respond wisely.

Closing the human gap is more urgent than solving any specific technical problem.

====Four Modes of Learning====
The authors propose a typology of learning essential for systemic adaptation:

* Maintenance Learning – Preserves current systems; ensures stability.
* Shock Learning – Reactive learning triggered by crises.
* Innovation Learning – Enables proactive change; creative problem-solving.
* Anticipatory Learning – Enables societies to forecast, simulate, and prepare for long-term futures.

Only the latter two are sufficient to address global complexity.

====No Limits to Learning====
Human beings can learn continuously, not just through formal education but through social, cultural, and experiential systems.

Unlike material resources, learning is a renewable and expandable capacity—it grows through use and sharing.

The right to learn is foundational to democracy and global citizenship.

====From Teaching to Learning Societies====
The future lies in learning-centered societies, not teaching-centered ones.

Learning must be lifelong, life-wide, and community-embedded.

Educational systems must be restructured to foster self-directed learning, critical thinking, and collective intelligence.

====Global Solidarity and Mutual Learning====
The report calls for East-West and North-South collaboration in the co-evolution of knowledge and culture.

No single model of education or development is universally valid; all cultures must learn from and with each other.

True development means co-learning toward mutual sustainability, justice, and peace.

==Conclusion and Impact==
No Limits to Learning reframes the global crisis not as a shortage of resources, but as a deficit in imagination, foresight, and shared learning. It was groundbreaking in placing education and learning at the center of societal transformation—an idea that deeply influenced later work on futures studies, systems thinking, and the concept of learning societies.

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Gregory Bateson

2025-07-23T13:14:32Z

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'''Gregory Bateson''' argued that the major problems facing the world stem from the discrepancy between how nature operates and how humans think. He believed that our ways of thinking, often characterized by fragmentation and a lack of connection to natural systems, contribute to issues like ecological destruction. Bateson's work emphasized the interconnectedness of all things and the importance of understanding systems thinking to address these problems.

In essence, Bateson's quote serves as a call for a shift in perspective, urging us to recognize the limitations of our current ways of thinking and to embrace a more ecological and interconnected worldview.

Besides Gregory Bateson, several other systems thinkers can be considered humanists, including [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Alfred North Whitehead]], and [[C. West Churchman|West Churchman]]. These thinkers all emphasized the importance of human experience, values, and social well-being within their systems thinking frameworks. Additionally, [[Kurt Lewin]], with his focus on group dynamics and social change, can also be seen as a humanist systems thinker.

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Category:Systems Scientists

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Category for Systems Scientists

Gregory Bateson

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Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory

2025-07-16T09:49:54Z

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==What It Is==
A cybernetic framework for understanding how knowledge emerges through dialogue—whether between two people or between a person and a machine. Pask models both parties as learning systems whose internal states evolve during interaction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_theory
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==Core Ideas==
* Shared domains: Learning happens about a specific topic (“conversational domain”). For A and B to truly learn together, they must be able to converse in ways that let them understand and agree—explicitly making knowledge visible Wikipedia.
* Iterative knowledge building: Dialogue isn’t just exchanging information. Participants negotiate meanings, adjust their mental states, and coordinate roles, resulting in deeper internal and joint understanding instructionaldesign.org+4Wikipedia+4thehope.tripod.com+4.

===Language layers===
# Natural language — casual, everyday talk.
# Object language — focused on the topic of learning, utilizing commands/questions.
# Metalanguage — meta-discussion about the conversation itself and its structure Wikipedia+1Wikipedia+1.

===Learning Styles===
Pask identified two cognitive strategies in learners:
# Serialists: tackle material step-by-step.
# Holists: grasp the bigger picture first.

Optimal learning emerges when both are used—a versatile strategy

===Why It Matters===
# Education & HCI: Informed early intelligent tutoring and adaptive learning systems by focusing on conversational interaction rather than one-way delivery .
# Shared awareness: Pask emphasizes that cognition isn’t just inside heads—it's a joint phenomenon arising during interaction Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2.
# Scientific rigour: He used computer models to ground conversations in measurable, reproducible processes Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2.

==Summary==
Conversation Theory posits that learning is co-constructed through structured, layered dialogue. Participants actively align ideas, adjust mental maps, and deepen understanding together. The theory influenced educational designs and human–computer interaction long before today's AI tutors.

Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory

2025-07-16T09:47:41Z

Laouris: created

==What It Is==
A cybernetic framework for understanding how knowledge emerges through dialogue—whether between two people or between a person and a machine. Pask models both parties as learning systems whose internal states evolve during interaction.

==Core Ideas==
* Shared domains: Learning happens about a specific topic (“conversational domain”). For A and B to truly learn together, they must be able to converse in ways that let them understand and agree—explicitly making knowledge visible Wikipedia.
* Iterative knowledge building: Dialogue isn’t just exchanging information. Participants negotiate meanings, adjust their mental states, and coordinate roles, resulting in deeper internal and joint understanding instructionaldesign.org+4Wikipedia+4thehope.tripod.com+4.

===Language layers===
# Natural language — casual, everyday talk.
# Object language — focused on the topic of learning, utilizing commands/questions.
# Metalanguage — meta-discussion about the conversation itself and its structure Wikipedia+1Wikipedia+1.

===Learning Styles===
Pask identified two cognitive strategies in learners:
# Serialists: tackle material step-by-step.
# Holists: grasp the bigger picture first.

Optimal learning emerges when both are used—a versatile strategy

===Why It Matters===
# Education & HCI: Informed early intelligent tutoring and adaptive learning systems by focusing on conversational interaction rather than one-way delivery .
# Shared awareness: Pask emphasizes that cognition isn’t just inside heads—it's a joint phenomenon arising during interaction Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2.
# Scientific rigour: He used computer models to ground conversations in measurable, reproducible processes Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2.

==Summary==
Conversation Theory posits that learning is co-constructed through structured, layered dialogue. Participants actively align ideas, adjust mental maps, and deepen understanding together. The theory influenced educational designs and human–computer interaction long before today's AI tutors.

The Falsifiability Criterion

2025-05-21T12:44:21Z

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The '''Falsifiability Criterion''', proposed by [[Karl Popper]] has been widely accepted in the fields of philosophy of science. Popper rejected [[induction]], which allowed for greater clarity in formulating theories that could be either accepted or rejected based on available evidence.

The Falsifiability Criterion demands rejection of any scientific theory that is not falsifiable. According to Popper, the search for truth originates from the attempt to uncover what is false, rather than vice versa. Therefore, a theory can only be accepted as true if it can be rejected, based on evidence and logical argument.

To apply the Falsifiability Criterion principle, a researcher must first formulate a hypothesis that can be tested. In conducting their research, the researcher is expected to look for evidence or data that could potentially disprove their hypothesis. If the hypothesis is proved to be false, the researcher will then be required to modify the hypothesis or discard it and formulate a new one. In this way, the Falsifiability Criterion can be seen as an iterative process, allowing for continuous improvement and problem-solving.

The application of the Falsifiability Criterion has a number of implications:
* Research must be conducted in a strictly objective manner
* Instead of simply applying current methodologies in the study of social phenomena, Popper’s Criterion encourages researchers to develop new hypotheses and test them against existing evidence.
* Implies a shift away from theories merely providing answers to the research questions posed, to those that allow for further inquiry and exploration: refocus from the search for definitive answers, to the search for potentially falsifiable hypotheses.

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'''Yiannis Laouris''' is a social-, science-, and business entrepreneur. He is a medical doctor, a neurophysiologist, and a systems engineer, trained in Germany and the US. Laouris interrupted his academic career in the mid-90s to dedicate his life to working for a better world. Most of his early social contributions were conducted through CYBER KIDS<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS CYBER KIDS in Future World Pedia]</ref> and Future Worlds Center<ref>[http://www.futureworldscenter.org Future Worlds Center]</ref>,<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Future_Worlds_Center Future Worlds Center in FWpedia]</ref>. CYBER KIDS was grounded on the vision that introducing advanced computer technology in the lives of a critical number of young children using an educationally relevant and socially responsible, peace-enhancing curriculum would allow them to “transcend” the socio-cultural, political, and educational limitations of their country and move the new generation a decade ahead<ref>[http://www.cyber-kids.net/index.php?title=CYBER_KIDS_Vision CYBER KIDS Vision]</ref>. Future Worlds Center Future was founded as an incubator of ideas, projects, organizations, and most importantly social entrepreneurs. It is grounded on the vision to ''consciously re-design humanity's futures'' envisioning a world based on values of freedom, equality, and justice, using complexity and systems science and harnessing the positives of the digital era.

Laouris is mostly known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace, sustainability, and democracy through the application of modern technology and the science of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD)<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Dialogic_Design_Science Dialogic Design Science]</ref>. His team has implemented more than 100 SDD applications<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Chronological_List_of_SDDPs_by_Future_Worlds_Center_and_Associates SDDPs by Future_Worlds and Associates]</ref> in both social and technological domains. They have established the SDD as a key methodology within the Operations Research<ref>Laouris, Y., & Michaelides, M. (2018). Structured Democratic Dialogue: An application of a mathematical problem structuring method to facilitate reforms with local authorities in Cyprus. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 918-931.</ref>,<ref>Laouris, Y., & Romm, N. R. (2021). Structured dialogical design as a problem structuring method illustrated in a Re-invent democracy project. European Journal of Operational Research.</ref> and have developed most of the currently used tools that support the process<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/ISM_Software Review of ISM software]</ref>. He leads internationally the theory and application of the science of structured dialogic design and conducts research towards developing systems to enable scaling up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of people in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating institutional and societal change. He promotes the application of broadband technologies and structured democratic dialogue as tools to bridge the digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides in our planet.

Laouris is one of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto<ref>Floridi, L. (2015). The onlife manifesto: Being human in a hyperconnected era (p. 264). Springer Nature.</ref> developed on behalf of the European Commission's Digital Futures Task Force<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/The_Onlife_Initiative Digital Futures Task Force]</ref>, and a key author of Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era Manifesto<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Reinventing_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Era_(UNDEF) Project page: Cick on manifesto report below]</ref> funded by the UN Democracy Fund<ref>[https://projects.undemocracyfund.org Project 532]</ref>.

==Education==
Laouris graduated the medical school of the University of Leipzig in Germany. His studies were supported by three parallel scholarships; one by the Government of Cyprus; a second for top grades, and a third for being among the top foreign students of his school year. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school. This achievement was publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August University Göttingen with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors Hans Diedrich Henatsch and Uwe Windhorst. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join two departments at the University of Arizona, Neurophysiology (medical school) and Robotics, Prosthetics, Motor Control Group (transdisciplinary). In the US, he also completed a Master's in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Current and Previous Notable Posts==
Laouris was one of the Founding Members of Future Worlds Center, where he now serves as CEO and Lead Scientist. He is also the Founder and CEO of various startup companies including [[GNOUS Labs Ltd.]] and [[Concertina Enterprises]]. He has previously founded [[CYBER KIDS]] and [[Ekkotek Ltd.]]. Laouris is also founding member of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies; member of Board of Institute for 21st Century Agoras; national representative in several COST Actions, Insafe, Inhope, EU Kids online, ECSO, Cybercrime Centre of Excellence, ECTEG – Europol, and member of Boards and/or partner in several high-tech companies.

==Contributions in Peace and Conflict Resolution==
In the nineties, Laouris was a founding member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus_Conflict_Resolution_Trainers_Group Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group in Wikipedia]</ref> and Technology for peace<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_for_peace Technology for peace in Wkipedia]</ref>,<ref>Laouris, Y. (2004). Information technology in the service of peace building. The case of Cyprus. World Futures, 60, 67–79.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y. and Laouri, R. (2008). Can Information and mobile technologies serve close the economic, educational, digital and social gaps and accelerate development? World Futures, 64(4), 254-275.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2008). Communication praxis for ethical accountability; The ethics of the tree of action. Syst Res Behav Sci 25(2), 331–348.</ref>initiative. His team envisioned, designed and implemented almost a dozen of peace projects in Cyprus with the most recent [[Civil Society Dialogue project in Cyprus|civil society dialogue]] project aiming to re-engage peacebuilders from both communities following the negative outcome of the [[Annan Plan]]<ref>Laouris, Y., Michaelides, M. Damdelen, M., Laouri, R., Beyatli, D., and Christakis, A. (2009). A systemic evaluation of the state of affairs following the negative outcome of the referendum in Cyprus using a structured design process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 45-75.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., Erel, A., Michaelides, M,. Damdelen, M., Taraszow, T., Dagli, I., Laouri, R. and Christakis, A. (2009). Exploring options for enhancement of social dialogue between the Turkish and Greek communities in Cyprus using the Structured Dialogic Design Process. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 22, 361–381. </ref>.Students from universities across the world conduct internships and complete Masters and PhD theses with his group in order to learn about the combined application of conflict resolution, structured dialogic design, and information technologies in the service of peace and positive social transformation. The work has been recognized in 2008 with the awarding of the first prize for social cohesion of the Cyprus civil society awards.

==Awards related to innovations in systems==
{|
| '''Year'''
| '''Description'''
|-
|1992
| ''Medical Innovation Award'', Arizona, USA For the development of Multimedia to teach neurophysiology to students of different disciplines.
|-
| 1992
| ''International Program Development Fund Award'', Arizona Distinction for significant contribution in International collaborations (with Estern bloc).
|-
| 1996
| ''ISO 9001/2'' for CYBER KIDS, London, UK Top company to achieve UK ISO registration.
|-
| 1995
| ''Silver Award'', INPEX 95, Pittsburgh, USA Innovation Competition Fair with thousands of participants from all over the world.
|-
| 1996
| ''The Elected of the Year '96'', Jerusalem, Israel Award for CYBER KIDS in Israel.
|-
|1996
| ''Qualidat'', Geneva, Switzerland Award for CYBER KIDS.
|-
| 2008
| ''First Award for innovation"' Nicosia, Cyprus.
|-
| 2008
| ''Civil Society Award'', Cyprus First Award for Future Worlds Center for social innovation.
|-
| 2011
| ''Hellenic Society for Systems Studies Award'' Dinstinguised Greek Scientist with international caliber.
|-
| 2017
| ''Euro-Med Award for the Dialogue between Cultures'' Second place Anna Lindh Foundation.
|-
| 2017
| ''Global Education Innovation Award 2017'' One of 12 awarded by GENE – Global Education Network Europe to Future Worlds Center for its innovative Map Your Meal project.
|}

==Citations==
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==Links==
* [https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Yiannis_Laouris Yiannis Laouris in Future Worlds Pedia]
* [https://alchetron.com/Yiannis-Laouris Yiannis Laouris in alchetron.com]

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'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto<ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref>https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe<ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatigue of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]], they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behaviour of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

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'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto<ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref>https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref>for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatigue of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]], they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behaviour of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

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Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto<ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref>https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatigue of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]], they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behaviour of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:47:48Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto<ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref>https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:46:17Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery of the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans not founded on the stakeholders' authentic engagement are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]],<ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:42:50Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], having conducted many structured dialogues worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>, they established the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]] <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:40:03Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]] <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]] (COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:39:45Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]] <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|Operational Research]](COR)<ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:38:52Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with [[Norma Romm]], they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as [[Problem structuring methods|Problem Structuring Method]] <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:37:26Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:36:43Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action,<ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:36:21Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action, <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref> which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:35:46Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:34:42Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', President (2024-2026) of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions, especially in peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that facilitated the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>.

. He co-founded the first bi-communal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and the Technology for Peace<ref>
https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html Sevgül Uludağ's Blog about Tech4Peace</ref> <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T16:28:28Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Herzog, E., Landry, M., Buhler, E., Bouali‐Benazzouz, R., Legay, C., Henderson, C. E., ... & El Mestikawy, S. (2004). Expression of vesicular glutamate transporters, VGLUT1 and VGLUT2, in cholinergic spinal motoneurons. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(7), 1752-1760. p 1759</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T13:27:22Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris, Y., & Windhorst, U. (1989). The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neuroscience, 28(3), 625-633.</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T13:25:47Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Laouris & Windhorst, 1987</ref>

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T13:22:03Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>, having conducted SDDs worldwide<ref>Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504. pg 493</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Cleveland, S., & Ross, H. G. (1977). Dynamic properties of Renshaw cells: Frequency response characteristics. Biological Cybernetics, 27(3), 175-184.</ref> <ref>Laouris & Windhorst, 1987</ref> <ref>Windhorst, U. (1996). On the role of recurrent inhibitory feedback in motor control. Progress in neurobiology, 49(6), 517-587.</ref> <ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210, p 237.</ref>

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T12:56:38Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community [[Operations research|operational research]] <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987</ref> <ref>Cleveland & Ross 1977</ref> <ref>Laouris & Windhorst, 1987</ref> <ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C., 1989. Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.</ref>

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T12:50:32Z

Laouris: /* Scientific Contributions */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romm, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T12:49:28Z

Laouris: /* Biography */

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by [[Douglas G. Stuart]] to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T12:45:58Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented notable peace and reconciliation projects that faciliated to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-19T12:45:06Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions especially in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented dozens of peace and reconciliation projects that led to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-12T17:57:26Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented dozens of peace and reconciliation projects that led to the creation of an embryonic peace movement in Cyprus<ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref> <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref> <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref> <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref> <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref> <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

During his early career in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they explored the relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

paper cites the hundreds of our SDD applications
Yang, B., Serrano, J. V., Launer, M. A., Wang, L., & Rabiei, K. (2023). A comprehensive and systematic study on the cybernetics management systems. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 36(3), 479-504.
pg 493

==Authority==
* https://viaf.org/viaf/38153409650841580096/#Laouris,_Yiannis
* https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016047869/

Yiannis test

2025-02-12T16:57:44Z

Laouris:

'''Yiannis Laouris''', 2024-2026 President of the [[International Society for the Systems Sciences]], is a social and business entrepreneur, known for his socially responsible work and scientific contributions in the fields of peace, dialogue, and democracy. As one of the founding members of the [[Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group]] in 1995<ref> Wolleh, Oliver, 2000. Local Peace Constituencies in Cyprus: The Bi-Communal Trainer’s Group. Cambridge, MA: CDA Collaborative Learning Projects. https://www.cdacollaborative.org/publication/local-peace-constituencies-in-cyprus-the-bi-communal-trainers-group </ref>, Laouris designed and implemented dozens of peace and reconciliation projects over several decades <ref>Galloway, Brooke Patricia, "Perceptions of Peacebuilding and Multi-Track Collaboration in Divided Societies for a Sustainable Peace Agreement at the Political Level: A Case Study of Cyprus" (2011). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 308. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.308 Galloway, 2011, p. 57</ref>, <ref>Jarraud, N., Louise, C., & Filippou, G. (2013). The Cypriot Civil Society movement: A legitimate player in the peace process?. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, 8(1), 45-59, pp. 48, 49</ref>, <ref> Johnson, L. (2007). Reconciliation and peace education in Cyprus: What will it take?. Cyprus Review, 19(1), 17-41. https://www.cyprusreview.org/index.php/cr/article/view/280
p. 18 </ref>, <ref> Loode, Serge Georg Willi (2015). Facilitating non-violent change in complex multicultural communities through structured dialogue. PhD Thesis, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland.https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2015.1015
p. 81</ref>. He is co-founder of the first bicommunal peace radio<ref> Simopoulos, M. (2012). A Potential Untapped: Media Working Together across the Divide in Cyprus. United Nations Development Programme, Cyprus Community Media Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/source/resources/references/others/11%20-%20Media%20Working%20Together%20-%20CCMC%202012.pdf p. 14</ref> and of the Technology for peace <ref> https://www.tech4peace.org Technology4peace </ref> initiative.

Sevgül Uludağ

https://sevgululudag.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-call-of-cuckoo-bird.html

==Biography==
Son of teacher Christodoulos Laouris, he lived and attended schools in various districts of Cyprus including [[The English School, Nicosia]], the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] and the Acropolis Gymnasium. He served in the [[Cypriot National Guard]] as the first Cypriot senior [[cryptographer]] in the Headquarters after the [[Military coup in Cyprus]] of the [[Greek military junta]] and the [[Turkish invasion of Cyprus]] in 1974. Laouris graduated the medical school of the [[Leipzig University]] in Germany. He was awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology with summa cum laude by the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology (with Peter Schwartze) a few weeks before graduating the medical school, an achievement publicized in many district and national German and Greek Cypriot newspapers as he was the first student to be awarded a PhD before graduation<ref>[https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate Media coverage of PhD award]</ref>. He continued his research in neurophysiology at the Georg-August [[University of Göttingen]] with cyberneticists and systems physiologists Professors [[Hans Diedrich Henatsch]] and [[Uwe Windhorst]]. He was then invited by Douglas G. Stuart to join the Department of Neurophysiology of the [[University of Arizona]]. Later in his life he also completed a Master's and a PhD in Systems and Industrial Engineering.

==Scientific Contributions==
Laouris is credited for the discovery the dialogic design Law of Requisite Action <ref>Bausch, K. (2008). Negotiating Social Complexity. Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2008, Madison, Wisconsin, 3(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings52nd/article/view/960 p.4</ref>, <ref> Flanagan T.R. (2020) Structured Dialogic Design for Mobilizing Collective Action in Highly Complex Systems. In: Metcalf G.S., Kijima K., Deguchi H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_59-1 p. 17</ref>, which asserts that action plans that are not founded on the authentic engagement of the stakeholders in dialogue and deliberation are unethical and are bound to fail. Together with Norma Romme, they stablished the Structured Democratic Dialogue methodology as Problem Structuring Method <ref>Gomes et al., 2022 pp.; Gomes Júnior, A.d.A., Schramm, V.B. Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Syst Pract Action Res 35, 55–88 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-021-09560-1, p 763</ref>, <ref> Franco, L. A., & Rouwette, E. A. (2022). Problem structuring methods: Taking stock and looking ahead. In The Palgrave handbook of operations research (pp. 735-780). Cham: Springer International Publishing. pg 763</ref> thus contributing to the development of community operational research <ref>Midgley, G., Johnson, M. P., & Chichirau, G. (2018). What is community operational research?. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783. pg 772</ref> <ref>Johnson, M. P., Midgley, G., Wright, J., & Chichirau, G. (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, internationalization and agenda-setting applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 761-770. pp. 766, 771</ref> <ref>Júnior, A. D. A. G., & Schramm, V. B. (2021). Problem Structuring Methods: A Review of Advances Over the Last Decade. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 1-34. pp. 3,15</ref>.

Laouris is one of 12 experts commissioned to draft the ONLINFE Manifesto <ref>https://epthinktank.eu/2014/12/08/what-makes-us-human-in-a-hyper-connected-era/ What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> <ref> https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/being-human-hyperconnected-era What makes us human in a hyper connected era</ref> for Europe <ref>Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. OUP Oxford. pg XII</ref> <ref>Peters, M. A., & Jandrić, P. (2019). Posthumanism, open ontologies and bio-digital becoming: Response to Luciano Floridi’s Onlife Manifesto. 971-980. pg 977 </ref> and co-presented it in the European Parliament <ref>https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/science-and-technology-options-assessment_20141202-1700-SPECIAL-UNKN Presentation of the ONLIFE Manifesto to the EU parliament</ref>

In his early career,in the late eighties and nineties, Laouris applied [[Digital signal processing]] in [[Digital signal processing #Time and space domains|time]] and [[Digital signal processing #Frequency domain|frequency]] domains to [[Single-cell recording|single-cell recordings]] from [[Experimental animal|experimental animals]] to study transmission properties and fatique of cat [[Motor neurons|motor neurons]], muscle afferents and [[Renshaw cells]]. Together with [[Uwe Windhorst]] they applied and explored relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavious of neurons <ref>Christakos et al. 1987; Cleveland & Ross 1977; Laouris & Windhorst 1987)<ref>Gottlieb, G. L., Corcos, D. M., & Agarwal, G. C. (1989). Strategies for the control of voluntary movements with one mechanical degree of freedom. Behavioral and brain sciences, 12(2), 189-210.

Yiannis test

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Yiannis test

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Yiannis test

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Yiannis test

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Yiannis test

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Inductive, Deductive and Abductive Reasoning

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== Inductive==
'''Inductive reasoning''' is a method of reasoning in which a general principle is derived from a body of observations. It consists of making broad generalizations based on specific observations.

==Deductive==
'''Deductive reasoning''' is often referred to as 'top-down reasoning'.
If something is assumed to be accurate and another relates to the first assumption, the original truth must also hold true for the second.
For example, if a car's trunk is large and a bike does not fit into it, you may assume the bike must also be large.

==Abductive==
'''Abductive reasoning''' is to abduce (or take away) a logical assumption, explanation, inference, conclusion, hypothesis, or best guess from an observation or set of observations. Because the conclusion is merely a best guess, the conclusion that is drawn may or may not be true.

===Difference between inductive and deductive===
The main difference between inductive and deductive reasoning is that inductive reasoning aims at developing a theory while deductive reasoning aims at testing an existing theory.

In other words, inductive reasoning moves from specific observations to broad generalizations. Deductive reasoning works the other way around.

==Application in [[Structured Democratic Dialogue Process==

The use of [[Abductive Reasoning]] for the construction of the [[Influence Trees|Influence Tree]] and [[Inductive Reasoning]] for the construction of the [[Clusters|Clustering Process], emancipates the stakeholders from the prison of the extrapolation and perpetuation of the current situation. In this manner they can create futures and construct world-views that have never been.

==References==
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive_reasoning
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning