Applied General Systems Research: Recent Developments and Trends

ISBN-13: 9781475705577 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 1001 str.

G. Klir

Opis

This volume consists of a selection of papers presented at the International Conference on Applied General Systems Research: Recent Developments and Trends which was held on the campus of the State University of New York at Binghamton in August 15-19, 1977, under the sponsorship of the Special Panel on Systems Science of the NATO Scientific Affairs Division. General systems research is a fairly new field which has been developing in the course of the last two or three decades. In my op n10n, it can be best described as a movement which involves the study of all structural and context independent aspects of problem solving. As such, it is cross-disciplinary in nature and, in this sense, it might seem similar to mathematics. There is a consid- erable difference, however, between the two. While pure mathe- matics is basically oriented to the development of various axiomatic theories, regardless of whether or not they have any real world meaning, applied mathematics explores the applicability of some of these theories as potentially useful methodological tools in various problem areas. General systems research, in contrast with applied mathematics, is problem oriented rather than tool oriented. As such, it tries to develop genuine methods for solving systems problems, i. e., structural type and context in- dependent problems. The term "genuine method" is used here to refer to a method which adjusts to the problem rather than re- quiring that the problem be adjusted to make the method applicable.

Spis treści

Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of General Systems Research.- Progress in General Systems Research.- Linkage Propositions between Fifty Principal Systems Concepts.- A Problem-Solving Basis for General Systems Research.- Systems Theoretic Description: A Vehicle for Reconciling Diverse Modelling Concepts.- On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory.- The Complexity Race.- General System Identification — Fundamentals and Results.- Constraint Analysis in Structure Modelling: A Probabilistic Approach.- Structure Modelling: A Constraint (Information) Analytic Approach.- On Structure Identification of Discrete Time Systems.- Metasystem Identification: A Procedure for Detection and Structural Composition in Time Dependent Systems.- Exploring, Modelling, and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments.- Managing Complex Systems: An Application of Ensemble Methods in System Theory.- The Evolution of Organization.- A Mathematical Foundation for System Synthesis.- On the Decomposition of General Systems: Simulation by Coupling Quotients.- Some Esomathematical Uses of Category Theory.- A Categorical Approach to General Systems.- Systems as Bimodules.- Lattices of Controllable and Observable Spaces.- Results of Empirical Studies in Fuzzy Set Theory.- Building Fuzzy Systems Models.- Basic Cyclic Relators as a Description of Multi-Levelled Systems.- Mobile Systems: Survey.- System Dynamics Versus Econometrics—An Approach for Synthesis.- Absolute Stability of General Systems.- Asymptoticity in General Systems.- Normed Networks: Their Mathematical Theory and Applicability.- The Role of the Observer in Uniform Systems.- The Nature of Fundamentals, Applied to the Fundamentals of Nature.- The Whole and the Simultaneous.- Ego Development Through Induced Programming.- Structurally Invariant Linear Models of Structurally Varying Linear Systems.- Stability and Eigenvalue Monotonicity of Linear Systems.- New Approaches to Reduction of Computational Complexity in Signal Processing Systems.- Synthesis of Complex Control Objects as an Integrated System.- Advances of General Systems Research in Biological Sciences.- Biology and Systems Research: An Overview.- Biological Systems Theory: Descriptive and Constructive Complementarity.- Some Analogies of Hierarchical Order in Biology and Linguistics.- Functional Hierarchies in the Brain.- Controlled Markov Chain Models for Biological Hierarchies.- Succinct Representation in Neural Nets and General Systems.- A Matrix Algebra for Neural Nets.- Stability of General Systems in Biological, Physical and Social Sciences.- The Structural-Functional Analysis of Interbehavioral Systems.- Some Aspects of Analysis Cancer Problems by Means of Control Theory.- The Inverse Problem: Computational Algorithms and Their Efficiency with Applications to a Model of the Calvin Photosynthesis Cycle.- Could a Model for the Regulation of ago-Antagonistic Couples Be Related to Various Types of Concrete Systems?.- Optimal Ventilation of Critically Ill Patients.- Impact of General Systems Research On the Social Sciences.- Systems Research and Social Sciences.- Social System Evolution and Sociobiology.- General Systems Methodology and Political Science.- Systems-Methodology in Management: An Adaptive Procedure for Organic Problem-Solving.- A Managerial Problem Solving Methodology (MPSM).- A Dynamic Model for Society.- Understanding Supra-Institutional Problems: Systems Lessons Drawn from an Application of the Checkland Methodology.- Multi-Organisational Strategies: An Analytical Framework and Case.- An Open-System Model of the Corporation.- A Production Planning System Dynamics.- Analysis of Investment in Technology Development and Systems with Variable Structure.- General Systems: A Tool for the Evaluation of the Firm’s Potential as a Result of Changes in its P-M Posture.- Dynamic Control of Hierarchical Public Systems.- The Meaning of Failure as Applied to Human Systems: Characteristics for a Fourth Generation of Systems Methodologies.- A Model of the Environment of Organizations: Theory and Evidence of Regulating “Jumpy” F-Sets.- System Modeling in Space.- Social Networks and Inter-Systemic Decision-Making.- Two Separate Realities: Dyadic Communication Problems Resulting from Interpersonal Differences in Internal Complexity.- Evolution Strategy and Social Sciences.- A Systems Framework for Library Analysis.- Toward a Siggs Characterization of Epistemic Properties of Educational Design.- A Curriculum for General Systems Education.- Adverse Views to General Systems Research.- Adverse Notes on Systems Theory.- On the Limitations of General Systems Theory in Systems Engineering.- The Limitations of Applied Systems Research.