Lucrari publicate in onoarea Acad. Mihai Draganescu

v Ionut Isac, Introducere in filosofia structural fenomenologica. Paradigma ortofizicii, Editura Ardealul, Tg. Mures, 2001,ISBN 973-8300-00-2

v Ionut Isac, Problematica ontologica in filosofia structural-fenomenologica, Editura Fundatiei "Constantin Brancusi", Targu-Jiu, 1998, ISBN 973-98538-0-3.

v Gheorghe Tecuci, Mihai Boicu, Military Applications of the Disciple Learning Agent, chapter in the book "Advanced Information Systems in Defense and Related Applications", L.C. Jain (ed), Springer Verlag, to appear. "To Mihai Draganescu, at his 75^th anniversary"

"Acknowledgements: The Disciple approach was started with the support of Mihai Draganescu, at the Research Institute for Informatics and the Romanian Academy."

v Tecuci, Gh., Boicu, M., Marcu, D., Stanescu, B., Boicu C., Comello, J., Lopez, A., Don-lon, J. and Cleckner, W., Development and Deployment of a Disciple Agent for Center of Gravity Analysis. This paper will receive the "Deployed Application Award" at the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, IAAI-2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2002.

"Acknowledgements: This paper is dedicated to Mihai Draganescu who supported the first research projects on the Disciple approach at the Research Institute for Informatics and the Romanian Academy."

v Florin Gh. Filip, D. A. Donciulescu, Cr. I. Filip, "Towards Intelligent Real-time Decision Support Systems for Industrial Milieu", Studies in Informatics and Control, December 2002, Volume 11 Number 4.

v Dan Tufis, Florin Gh. Filip (coordonatori), Limba Româna in Societatea Informationala-Societatea Cunosterii, Colectia Societatea Informationala, © ACADEMIA ROMANA, volum produs de ICIA (Institutul de Cercetari pentru Inteligenta Artificiala), Editura Expert, 2002, ISBN 973-8177-83-9, 511p. (CUPRINS)

v Manolescu,G., 2001. "An Architectural Modeling Approach by Means of Categories and Functors". Noesis, XXVI: p. 79 –96:

THE “ARCHITECTURE” NOTION IN M. DRAGANESCU WORKS

In [6] Mihai Draganescu synthesized some aspects of the architecture notion, which have been put into evidence in [4], [5].

We shall take the risks to simplify what Draganescu wrote, and so we shall summarize from [6]:

1.There are three levels of the architecture of a system:

¨ architectural level of a functional structure;

¨ architectural level of a concrete structure;

¨ architectural level of the system, as a whole, conceived as composed by the above two levels .

2. In opposition to the systemic ‘objective’ gestalt, the architectural gestalt cannot be separated from the subject. That is due to the fact that the subject is the determining factor that creates and intercepts the ‘whole’ of the architecture, and produces an ‘unique, scientifically undescriptible (psycho-mental) state’.

3. From an architectural point of view, the architectural gestalt tries to cover, in every possible way, all the functions of a system, including technical, human and aesthetic aspects. For this reason the architectural approach is not subsumed to the systemic approach but, instead, exceeds the later.

4. The architectural approach is a constructive and creative thinking.

5. A human being may be an onlooker when he looks on an existent system, or an actor when he builds up a new system.

In a subsequent work [7], M. Draganescu goes back on the architecture notion with some new specifications.

Concerning the functional level of an architecture, he said that, at this level, three types of functions may emerge, namely:

¨ formal functions (mathematical functions);

¨ formal – non-formal functions which can also be reduced to formal functions;

¨ non-formal functions.

There are some new notions and concepts exploited by M. Draganescu later in [8].

We shall remark that, by means of the ‘’non-formal functions’’ notion, the author puts into evidence the ‘’phenomenological’’ aspect of the thinking which has a ‘’continuous’’ connotation. Therefore, the functional level of an architecture loses the structural feature, in a classical mathematical sense with a ‘’fragmentary/discrete’’ connotation, being a structural-phenomenological level. Finally, the creative feature of the mind is associated to the phenomenological aspect. In [8], the phenomenological aspects of the mind there were assimilated with the qualia phenomenon (intuitive experience/insight).

In the next section, we shall present our extended conceptual framework of the ‘architecture’ of an artifact (a construction which is made by the human beings).

[4] DRÃGÃNESCU, M., Arhitectura sistemelor tehnice (The Architecture of technical systems), in: Malita, M., (coord.), Sisteme in stiintele naturii, Romanian Academy, 1979.

[5] DRÃGÃNESCU, M., Profunzimile lumii materiale (The depths of the material world), Bucuresti, Romania, Politica, 1979; in English, The Depths of Existence, 1997, on the Web: http://www.racai.ro/~dragam.

[6] DRÃGÃNESCU, M., Gandirea arhitecturala (Architectural Thinking), in: Milcu St., Stancovici, V.,(coord.), Interdisciplinaritatea in stiinta contemporana, Politica, Bucharest, Romania, 1980.

[7] DRÃGÃNESCU, M., Orthofizica (Orthophysics), Stiintifica si Enciclopedica, Bucharest, Romania, 1985.

[8] DRÃGÃNESCU, M., Categories and functors for the structural-phenomenological modeling, Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, Mathematics, Physcs, Technical Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2000), http://www.racai.ro/~dragam, the section.

v Manolescu, G., 2002. "Qualia Implied n An Architectural Thinking Process". Noetic Journal, 3 (No. 3), July: p. 258 – 267:

M. Draganescu has introduced the names “organizational architecture” and “functional architecture” in connection with the architecture notion. In (DRÃGÃNESCU, 2002) the author wrote: “…the architecture of an object, of any nature…” is… “defined as

A = <Af,Ao,Ag>

Where the functional architecture (Af) represents the functions of the object (in general, its external functions, but sometimes also internal functions if these have a special role), the organizational architecture (Ao) represents the parts (or the main relevant parts) of the object, and the architecture’s gestalt (Ag) is the way in which the object is perceived by an observer, external or by the object itself about itself”. Starting from Draganescu’s functional architecture and organizational architecture, we shall introduce the notions of functional structure and organizational structure of a new artifact. Our functional structure and organizational structure have some similarities with the corresponding Draganescu’s notions, but these similarities are not identities. In the following, these differences will become obviously.

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My thanks to professor Mihai Draganescu, who has been orientating and guiding my preoccupations in the Phenomenology field since 1980 until now.

DRÃGÃNESCU, M., 2002, “A First Essay on Phenomenological Topologies”, E-preprint, http://www.racai.ro/~dragam.

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