General Systems

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General Systems has been the first journal of the Society for General Systems Research published independently until the 1980s. Ever since it has been published as one of the items of the Systems Research and Behavioral Science. The journal started as a selecting of publications by several of the "foundational authors of the systems sciences", [1] and contains some of the classic works in the field of systems theory, [2] such as:

The General Systems Yearbook also contains examples of the third kind of general systems activity — creating new laws and refining old. [3]

In 1998, the General Systems Yearbook was transitioned [4] to be included each year as issue 5 of Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences.

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References

  1. Cybernetics and Systems Journals Archived 2008-05-28 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 28 May 2008.
  2. Benjamin Frankel (1996), Roots of Realism. pp 53.
  3. Gerald M. Weinberg (1975), An Introduction to General Systems Thinking. John Wiley, p. 46.
  4. Lane Tracy1, Tracy, L. and Wilby, J. (1998), Introduction to the special issue. Syst. Res., 15: 357–358. doi : 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(1998090)15:5<357::AID-SRES263>3.0.CO;2-F