Applied General Systems Research: Recent Developments and Trends

Conceptual and Methodological Foundations of General Systems Research.- Progress in General Systems Research.- Linkage Propositions between Fifty Principal Systems Concepts.- A Problem-Solving Basis for General Systems Research.- Systems Theoretic Description: A Vehicle for Reconciling Diverse Modelling Concepts.- On Being Autonomous: The Lessons of Natural History for Systems Theory.- The Complexity Race.- General System Identification Fundamentals and Results.- Constraint Analysis in Structure Modelling: A Probabilistic Approach.- Structure Modelling: A Constraint (Information) Analytic Approach.- On Structure Identification of Discrete Time Systems.- Metasystem Identification: A Procedure for Detection and Structural Composition in Time Dependent Systems.- Exploring, Modelling, and Controlling Discrete Sequential Environments.- Managing Complex Systems: An Application of Ensemble Methods in System Theory.- The Evolution of Organization.- A Mathematical Foundation for System Synthesis.- On the Decomposition of General Systems: Simulation by Coupling Quotients.- Some Esomathematical Uses of Category Theory.- A Categorical Approach to General Systems.- Systems as Bimodules.- Lattices of Controllable and Observable Spaces.- Results of Empirical Studies in Fuzzy Set Theory.- Building Fuzzy Systems Models.- Basic Cyclic Relators as a Description of Multi-Levelled Systems.- Mobile Systems: Survey.- System Dynamics Versus Econometrics An Approach for Synthesis.- Absolute Stability of General Systems.- Asymptoticity in General Systems.- Normed Networks: Their Mathematical Theory and Applicability.- The Role of the Observer in Uniform Systems.- The Nature of Fundamentals, Applied to the Fundamentals of Nature.- The Whole and the Simultaneous.- Ego Development Through Induced Programming.- Structurally Invariant Linear Models of Structurally Varying Linear Systems.- Stability and Eigenvalue Monotonicity of Linear Systems.- New Approaches to Reduction of Computational Complexity in Signal Processing Systems.- Synthesis of Complex Control Objects as an Integrated System.- Advances of General Systems Research in Biological Sciences.- Biology and Systems Research: An Overview.- Biological Systems Theory: Descriptive and Constructive Complementarity.- Some Analogies of Hierarchical Order in Biology and Linguistics.- Functional Hierarchies in the Brain.- Controlled Markov Chain Models for Biological Hierarchies.- Succinct Representation in Neural Nets and General Systems.- A Matrix Algebra for Neural Nets.- Stability of General Systems in Biological, Physical and Social Sciences.- The Structural-Functional Analysis of Interbehavioral Systems.- Some Aspects of Analysis Cancer Problems by Means of Control Theory.- The Inverse Problem: Computational Algorithms and Their Efficiency with Applications to a Model of the Calvin Photosynthesis Cycle.- Could a Model for the Regulation of ago-Antagonistic Couples Be Related to Various Types of Concrete Systems?.- Optimal Ventilation of Critically Ill Patients.- Impact of General Systems Research On the Social Sciences.- Systems Research and Social Sciences.- Social System Evolution and Sociobiology.- General Systems Methodology and Political Science.- Systems-Methodology in Management: An Adaptive Procedure for Organic Problem-Solving.- A Managerial Problem Solving Methodology (MPSM).- A Dynamic Model for Society.- Understanding Supra-Institutional Problems: Systems Lessons Drawn from an Application of the Checkland Methodology.- Multi-Organisational Strategies: An Analytical Framework and Case.- An Open-System Model of the Corporation.- A Production Planning System Dynamics.- Analysis of Investment in Technology Development and Systems with Variable Structure.- General Systems: A Tool for the Evaluation of the Firm s Potential as a Result of Changes in its P-M Posture.- Dynamic Control of Hierarchical Public Systems.- The Meaning of Failure as Applied to Human Systems: Characteristics for a Fourt