Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Progress in General Systems Research
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   Chapter 2 Linkage Propositions between Fifty Principal Systems Concepts
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   Chapter 3 A Problem-Solving Basis for General Systems Research
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   Chapter 4 Systems Theoretic Description: A Vehicle for Reconciling Diverse Modelling Concepts
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   Chapter 5 On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory
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   Chapter 6 The Complexity Race
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   Chapter 7 General System Identification — Fundamentals and Results
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   Chapter 8 Constraint Analysis in Structure Modelling: A Probabilistic Approach
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    Chapter 9 Structure Modelling: A Constraint (Information) Analytic Approach
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    Chapter 10 On Structure Identification of Discrete Time Systems
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    Chapter 11 Metasystem Identification: A Procedure for Detection and Structural Composition in Time Dependent Systems
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    Chapter 12 Exploring, Modelling, and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments
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    Chapter 13 Managing Complex Systems: An Application of Ensemble Methods in System Theory
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    Chapter 14 The Evolution of Organization
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    Chapter 15 A Mathematical Foundation for System Synthesis
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    Chapter 16 On the Decomposition of General Systems: Simulation by Coupling Quotients
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    Chapter 17 Some Esomathematical Uses of Category Theory
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    Chapter 18 A Categorical Approach to General Systems
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    Chapter 19 Systems as Bimodules
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    Chapter 20 Lattices of Controllable and Observable Spaces
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    Chapter 21 Results of Empirical Studies in Fuzzy Set Theory
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    Chapter 22 Building Fuzzy Systems Models
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    Chapter 23 Basic Cyclic Relators as a Description of Multi-Levelled Systems
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    Chapter 24 Mobile Systems: Survey
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    Chapter 25 System Dynamics Versus Econometrics—An Approach for Synthesis
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    Chapter 26 Absolute Stability of General Systems
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    Chapter 27 Asymptoticity in General Systems
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    Chapter 28 Normed Networks: Their Mathematical Theory and Applicability
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    Chapter 29 The Role of the Observer in Uniform Systems
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    Chapter 30 The Nature of Fundamentals, Applied to the Fundamentals of Nature
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    Chapter 31 The Whole and the Simultaneous
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    Chapter 32 Ego Development Through Induced Programming
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    Chapter 33 Structurally Invariant Linear Models of Structurally Varying Linear Systems
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    Chapter 34 Stability and Eigenvalue Monotonicity of Linear Systems
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    Chapter 35 New Approaches to Reduction of Computational Complexity in Signal Processing Systems
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    Chapter 36 Synthesis of Complex Control Objects as an Integrated System
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    Chapter 37 Biology and Systems Research: An Overview
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    Chapter 38 Biological Systems Theory: Descriptive and Constructive Complementarity
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    Chapter 39 Some Analogies of Hierarchical Order in Biology and Linguistics
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    Chapter 40 Functional Hierarchies in the Brain
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    Chapter 41 Controlled Markov Chain Models for Biological Hierarchies
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    Chapter 42 Succinct Representation in Neural Nets and General Systems
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    Chapter 43 A Matrix Algebra for Neural Nets
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    Chapter 44 Stability of General Systems in Biological, Physical and Social Sciences
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    Chapter 45 The Structural-Functional Analysis of Interbehavioral Systems
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    Chapter 46 Some Aspects of Analysis Cancer Problems by Means of Control Theory
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    Chapter 47 The Inverse Problem: Computational Algorithms and Their Efficiency with Applications to a Model of the Calvin Photosynthesis Cycle
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    Chapter 48 Could a Model for the Regulation of ago-Antagonistic Couples Be Related to Various Types of Concrete Systems?
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    Chapter 49 Optimal Ventilation of Critically Ill Patients
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    Chapter 50 Systems Research and Social Sciences
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    Chapter 51 Social System Evolution and Sociobiology
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    Chapter 52 General Systems Methodology and Political Science
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    Chapter 53 Systems-Methodology in Management: An Adaptive Procedure for Organic Problem-Solving
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    Chapter 54 A Managerial Problem Solving Methodology (MPSM)
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    Chapter 55 A Dynamic Model for Society
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    Chapter 56 Understanding Supra-Institutional Problems: Systems Lessons Drawn from an Application of the Checkland Methodology
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    Chapter 57 Multi-Organisational Strategies: An Analytical Framework and Case
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    Chapter 58 An Open-System Model of the Corporation
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    Chapter 59 A Production Planning System Dynamics
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    Chapter 60 Analysis of Investment in Technology Development and Systems with Variable Structure
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    Chapter 61 General Systems: A Tool for the Evaluation of the Firm’s Potential as a Result of Changes in its P-M Posture
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    Chapter 62 Dynamic Control of Hierarchical Public Systems
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    Chapter 63 The Meaning of Failure as Applied to Human Systems: Characteristics for a Fourth Generation of Systems Methodologies
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    Chapter 64 A Model of the Environment of Organizations: Theory and Evidence of Regulating “Jumpy” F-Sets
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    Chapter 65 System Modeling in Space
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    Chapter 66 Social Networks and Inter-Systemic Decision-Making
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    Chapter 67 Two Separate Realities: Dyadic Communication Problems Resulting from Interpersonal Differences in Internal Complexity
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    Chapter 68 Evolution Strategy and Social Sciences
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    Chapter 69 A Systems Framework for Library Analysis
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    Chapter 70 Toward a Siggs Characterization of Epistemic Properties of Educational Design
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    Chapter 71 A Curriculum for General Systems Education
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    Chapter 72 Adverse Notes on Systems Theory
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    Chapter 73 On the Limitations of General Systems Theory in Systems Engineering
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    Chapter 74 The Limitations of Applied Systems Research