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Applied General Systems Research

Recent Developments and Trends

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Editors:
  1. George J. Klir

    1. State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 5)

Part of the book sub series: II Systems Science (SYSC)

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Table of contents (74 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of General Systems Research

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Progress in General Systems Research

      • Brian R. Gaines
      Pages 3-28
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    3. Linkage Propositions between Fifty Principal Systems Concepts

      • L. Raphael Troncale
      Pages 29-52
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    4. A Problem-Solving Basis for General Systems Research

      • Roger Cavallo, George J. Klir
      Pages 53-59
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    5. Systems Theoretic Description: A Vehicle for Reconciling Diverse Modelling Concepts

      • Bernard P. Zeigler
      Pages 61-75
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    6. On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory

      • Francisco J. Varela
      Pages 77-84
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    7. The Complexity Race

      • Lars Löfgren
      Pages 85-90
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    8. General System Identification — Fundamentals and Results

      • B. R. Gaines
      Pages 91-104
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    9. Constraint Analysis in Structure Modelling: A Probabilistic Approach

      • A. P. J. Abrahamse
      Pages 105-115
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    10. Structure Modelling: A Constraint (Information) Analytic Approach

      • Gerrit Broekstra
      Pages 117-132
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    11. On Structure Identification of Discrete Time Systems

      • Anna S. Zalecka-Melamed, Bernard P. Zeigler
      Pages 133-146
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    12. Metasystem Identification: A Procedure for Detection and Structural Composition in Time Dependent Systems

      • Hugo J. J. Uyttenhove
      Pages 147-160
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    13. Exploring, Modelling, and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments

      • Ian H. Witten
      Pages 161-174
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    14. Managing Complex Systems: An Application of Ensemble Methods in System Theory

      • Crayton C. Walker, Alan E. Gelfand
      Pages 175-185
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    15. The Evolution of Organization

      • Spyros Makridakis
      Pages 187-207
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    16. A Mathematical Foundation for System Synthesis

      • Janet A. Fertig, Ricardo N. Zapata
      Pages 209-224
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    17. On the Decomposition of General Systems: Simulation by Coupling Quotients

      • Franz Pichler
      Pages 225-241
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    18. Some Esomathematical Uses of Category Theory

      • Wyllis Bandler
      Pages 243-255
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    19. A Categorical Approach to General Systems

      • Susanna Ginali, Joseph Goguen
      Pages 257-270
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Binghamton, USA

    George J. Klir

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Applied General Systems Research

  • Book Subtitle: Recent Developments and Trends

  • Editors: George J. Klir

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0555-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-0557-7Published: 14 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-0555-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 1001

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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