Applied General Systems Research: Recent Developments and Trends

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Progress in General Systems Research....Pages 3-28
Linkage Propositions between Fifty Principal Systems Concepts....Pages 29-52
A Problem-Solving Basis for General Systems Research....Pages 53-59
Systems Theoretic Description: A Vehicle for Reconciling Diverse Modelling Concepts....Pages 61-75
On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory....Pages 77-84
The Complexity Race....Pages 85-90
General System Identification — Fundamentals and Results....Pages 91-104
Constraint Analysis in Structure Modelling: A Probabilistic Approach....Pages 105-115
Structure Modelling: A Constraint (Information) Analytic Approach....Pages 117-132
On Structure Identification of Discrete Time Systems....Pages 133-146
Metasystem Identification: A Procedure for Detection and Structural Composition in Time Dependent Systems....Pages 147-160
Exploring, Modelling, and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments....Pages 161-174
Managing Complex Systems: An Application of Ensemble Methods in System Theory....Pages 175-185
The Evolution of Organization....Pages 187-207
A Mathematical Foundation for System Synthesis....Pages 209-224
On the Decomposition of General Systems: Simulation by Coupling Quotients....Pages 225-241
Some Esomathematical Uses of Category Theory....Pages 243-255
A Categorical Approach to General Systems....Pages 257-270
Systems as Bimodules....Pages 271-288
Lattices of Controllable and Observable Spaces....Pages 289-302
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Results of Empirical Studies in Fuzzy Set Theory....Pages 303-312
Building Fuzzy Systems Models....Pages 313-320
Basic Cyclic Relators as a Description of Multi-Levelled Systems....Pages 321-336
Mobile Systems: Survey....Pages 337-345
System Dynamics Versus Econometrics—An Approach for Synthesis....Pages 347-359
Absolute Stability of General Systems....Pages 361-370
Asymptoticity in General Systems....Pages 371-379
Normed Networks: Their Mathematical Theory and Applicability....Pages 381-394
The Role of the Observer in Uniform Systems....Pages 395-400
The Nature of Fundamentals, Applied to the Fundamentals of Nature....Pages 401-409
The Whole and the Simultaneous....Pages 411-417
Ego Development Through Induced Programming....Pages 419-434
Structurally Invariant Linear Models of Structurally Varying Linear Systems....Pages 435-451
Stability and Eigenvalue Monotonicity of Linear Systems....Pages 453-461
New Approaches to Reduction of Computational Complexity in Signal Processing Systems....Pages 463-470
Synthesis of Complex Control Objects as an Integrated System....Pages 471-485
Front Matter....Pages 487-487
Biology and Systems Research: An Overview....Pages 489-510
Biological Systems Theory: Descriptive and Constructive Complementarity....Pages 511-520
Some Analogies of Hierarchical Order in Biology and Linguistics....Pages 521-529
Functional Hierarchies in the Brain....Pages 531-544
Front Matter....Pages 487-487
Controlled Markov Chain Models for Biological Hierarchies....Pages 545-552
Succinct Representation in Neural Nets and General Systems....Pages 553-561
A Matrix Algebra for Neural Nets....Pages 563-573
Stability of General Systems in Biological, Physical and Social Sciences....Pages 575-587
The Structural-Functional Analysis of Interbehavioral Systems....Pages 589-600
Some Aspects of Analysis Cancer Problems by Means of Control Theory....Pages 601-608
The Inverse Problem: Computational Algorithms and Their Efficiency with Applications to a Model of the Calvin Photosynthesis Cycle....Pages 609-620
Could a Model for the Regulation of ago-Antagonistic Couples Be Related to Various Types of Concrete Systems?....Pages 621-637
Optimal Ventilation of Critically Ill Patients....Pages 639-652
Front Matter....Pages 653-653
Systems Research and Social Sciences....Pages 655-685
Social System Evolution and Sociobiology....Pages 687-693
General Systems Methodology and Political Science....Pages 695-700
Systems-Methodology in Management: An Adaptive Procedure for Organic Problem-Solving....Pages 701-710
A Managerial Problem Solving Methodology (MPSM)....Pages 711-718
A Dynamic Model for Society....Pages 719-733
Understanding Supra-Institutional Problems: Systems Lessons Drawn from an Application of the Checkland Methodology....Pages 735-745
Multi-Organisational Strategies: An Analytical Framework and Case....Pages 747-761
An Open-System Model of the Corporation....Pages 763-774
A Production Planning System Dynamics....Pages 775-786
Analysis of Investment in Technology Development and Systems with Variable Structure....Pages 787-799
Front Matter....Pages 653-653
General Systems: A Tool for the Evaluation of the Firm’s Potential as a Result of Changes in its P-M Posture....Pages 801-809
Dynamic Control of Hierarchical Public Systems....Pages 811-819
The Meaning of Failure as Applied to Human Systems: Characteristics for a Fourth Generation of Systems Methodologies....Pages 821-830
A Model of the Environment of Organizations: Theory and Evidence of Regulating “Jumpy” F-Sets....Pages 831-844
System Modeling in Space....Pages 845-857
Social Networks and Inter-Systemic Decision-Making....Pages 859-872
Two Separate Realities: Dyadic Communication Problems Resulting from Interpersonal Differences in Internal Complexity....Pages 873-890
Evolution Strategy and Social Sciences....Pages 891-903
A Systems Framework for Library Analysis....Pages 905-916
Toward a Siggs Characterization of Epistemic Properties of Educational Design....Pages 917-935
A Curriculum for General Systems Education....Pages 937-945
Front Matter....Pages 947-947
Adverse Notes on Systems Theory....Pages 949-960
On the Limitations of General Systems Theory in Systems Engineering....Pages 961-970
The Limitations of Applied Systems Research....Pages 971-979
Back Matter....Pages 981-1001