The International Journal of Knowledge and System Sciences is an international journal published quarterly. It aims to promote the exchange and interaction of knowledge across disciplines and borders to explore the new territories and new frontiers. The Journal publishes papers that are addressed to the theory, methodology and applications relating to knowledge and system sciences.

© 2004 JAIST Press

First Issue

October 2004              VOLUME 1            NUMBER 1              ISSN:  1349-7030

CONTENTS

Yoshiteru Nakamori and Zhichang Zhu

Exploring a Sociologist Underpinning for the i System ............1

Zhongtuo Wang

Knowledge Systems Engineering: A New Discipline of Knowledge Management and Enabling....... 9

Andrzej P. Wierzbicki

Knowledge Creation Theories and Rational Theory of Intuition ..............17

Andrzej P. Wierzbicki and Yoshiteru Nakamori

Creative Space:  a Tool for Knowledge Integration ..............26

Marek Makowski

Model-based Problem Solving in the Knowledge Grid ................. 33

Quan Bai and Minjie Zhang

Agent Coordination through Knowledge Management ............. 45

Jason Jixuan Hu

Elitist Approach versus Re-inventing Approach -- Influences of System Thinking in Corporations in Last 60 Years...52

Taketoshi Yoshida, Hiroshi Horii, Masaharu Hayashi, Insoo Kweon, and Takahisa Inuzuka

A Study of the Relations Between Soft Systems Methodology and Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory..... 56

Gerald Midgley

Systems Thinking for the 21^st Century ................. 63

Gifa Gu and Xijin Tang

Wu-li Shi-li Ren-li System Approach to a Major Project on the Research of Meta-synthesis System Approach..........70