When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Systems theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory

    Systems theory is manifest in the work of practitioners in many disciplines, for example the works of physician Alexander Bogdanov, biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, and sociologist Talcott Parsons; in the study of ecological systems by Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum; in Fritjof Capra's study of organizational theory; in the study of management by Peter Senge; in ...

  3. List of types of systems theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_types_of_systems_theory

    This list of types of systems theory gives an overview of different types of systems theory, which are mentioned in scientific book titles or articles. [1] The following more than 40 types of systems theory are all explicitly named systems theory and represent a unique conceptual framework in a specific field of science .

  4. Kenneth E. Boulding - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Boulding

    [2] [3] Boulding was the author of two citation classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). He was co-founder of general systems theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was married to sociologist Elise M. Boulding.

  5. Ludwig von Bertalanffy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Bertalanffy

    Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics and other fields.

  6. Systems thinking - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking

    in: Views on a General Systems Theory: Proceedings from the Second System Symposium, Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (ed.). A.C. Ehresmann, J.-P. Vanbremeersch (1987) Hierarchical evolutive systems: A mathematical model for complex systems" Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Volume 49, Issue 1, Pages 13–50; NJTA Kramer & J de Smit (1977) Systems thinking ...

  7. Systemic development - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_Development

    General Systems Theory (GST) laid the foundation to systemic thinking. Ludwig Von Bertalanffy was known as the founder of the original principles of GST. [1] Prior to 1968, when GST was introduced in Bertalanffy’s book, General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications, the traditional approach to development used linear thinking or cause-and-effect thinking.

  8. Russell L. Ackoff - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_L._Ackoff

    1968, "General Systems Theory and Systems Research Contrasting Conceptions of Systems Science." in: Views on a General Systems Theory: Proceedings from the Second System Symposium, Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (Ed.). 1971, Towards A System of Systems Concepts. 1973, "Science in the Systems Age: Beyond IE, OR, and MS", Operations Research 21(3), pp. 661 ...

  9. Systems science - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_science

    Systems science, also referred to as systems research or simply systems, [1] is a transdisciplinary [2] field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society, which leads to the advancements of formal, natural, social, and applied attributions throughout engineering, technology and science, itself.