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100 1 $aWarfield, John N.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50019459
245 13 $aAn introduction to systems science /$cJohn N. Warfield.
260 $aHackensack, NJ :$bWorld Scientific,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axxv, 403 pages :$billustrations ;$c29 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes partial description of the contents of the Warfield Special Collection at George Mason University's Fenwick Library.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tUnlimited scope of system science -- $gCh. 2.$tThe human being (creative and fallible) -- $gCh. 3.$tLanguage (overpromising, underperforming) -- $gCh. 4.$tSecond-order thought (the stuff reason is made of) -- $gCh. 5.$tThe thought explorers (working backward through time) -- $gCh. 6.$tQuality control in modeling structure -- $gCh. 7.$tThe situation room -- $gCh. 8.$tDescribing problematic situations -- $gCh. 9.$tMetrics of complexity -- $gCh. 10.$tDiagnosing -- $gCh. 11.$tSystem design -- $gCh. 12.$tChoosing from the alternatives -- $gCh. 13.$tImplementing the design -- $gCh. 14.$tThe corporate observatorium : sustaining management communication and continuity in an age of complexity -- $gCh. 15.$tThe private sector : the practitioners ("systemists") -- $gCh. 16.$tThe government sector : the practitioners ("systemists") -- $gCh. 17.$tThe social arena : the practitioners ("systemists") -- $gCh. 18.$tEducation sector : the practitioners ("systemists") -- $gCh. 19.$tSystems science -- $gCh. 20.$tReflections and speculations -- $gApp. 1.$tGallery -- $gApp. 2.$tThe "Warfield special collection" at the George Mason University Fenwick Library -- $gApp. 3.$tDiscovering systems science -- $gApp. 4.$tLinguistic adjustments : precursors to understanding complexity -- $gApp. 5.$tThe two neutral processes of systems science -- $gApp. 6.$tStatements, themes, findings, structure -- $gApp. 7.$tLiteracy in structural graphics : the higher education imperative.
520 1 $a"This is the first book that renders a thorough discussion of systems science. It draws on material from an extensive collection of external sources, including several other books and a special library collection complete with videotape empirical evidence of applicability of the theory to a wide variety of circumstances. This is essential because systems science must be responsive to diverse human situations of the widest difficulty, and it must fill the void that the specific sciences cannot fill, because these sciences are insensitive to the necessities of reconciling disparate views of multiple observers, and incorporating local conditions in hypotheses that precede inductive explorations."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSystem theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131743
650 0 $aSystem analysis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131733
852 00 $boff,eng$hQ295$i.W374 2006g