This essay examines some of the values and assumptions of General Systems Theory (GST) in an attempt to show that: (1) Many concepts composing GST constitute nonrefutable hypotheses which serve the ...
The system approach principle places individual system elements in their environments and observes the relationships between them. Instead of studying a specific phenomenon first – an automobile ...
Vol. 34, No. 8, Systems in O.R. First International IFORS and O.R.S. Meeting. Discussion Conference at Henly, U.K. 9-11 May 1983 (Aug., 1983), pp. 729-738 (10 pages ...