General Systems
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General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research, known as General Systems, is the first annual journal in the field of systems science
initiated in 1956, and initially edited by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
and Anatol Rapoport
.
published independently until the 1980s. Eversince 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", and contains some of the classic works in the field of systems theory , such as:
The General Systems Yearbook also contains examples of the third kind of general systems activity — creating new laws and refining old.
Systems science
Systems science is an interdisciplinary field of science that studies the nature of complex systems in nature, society, and science. It aims to develop interdisciplinary foundations, which are applicable in a variety of areas, such as engineering, biology, medicine and social sciences.Systems...
initiated in 1956, and initially edited by Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian-born biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory . GST is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics, and other fields...
and Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport
Anatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American Jewish mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion.-Biography:...
.
Overview
General Systems has been the first journal of the Society for General Systems ResearchSociety for General Systems Research
The Society for General Systems Research is predecessor of the current International Society for the Systems Sciences , known to be one the first interdisciplinary and international co-operations in the field of systems theory and systems science...
published independently until the 1980s. Eversince it has been published as one of the items of the Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Systems Research and Behavioral Science
Systems Research and Behavioral Science is an international scientific journal for theory and research in the fields of systems sciences....
. The journal started as a selecting of publications by several of the "foundational authors of the systems sciences", and contains some of the classic works in the field of systems theory , such as:
- Ludwig von BertalanffyLudwig von BertalanffyKarl Ludwig von Bertalanffy was an Austrian-born biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory . GST is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, applicable to biology, cybernetics, and other fields...
, "General Systems Theory," in General Systems Yearbook 1 (1956), - Kenneth Boulding, "General Systems Theory -- The Skeleton of Science," General Systems Yearbook, I (1956), pp. 11-17.
- W. Ross Ashby, "General systems theory as a new discipline," General Systems Yearbook, 3, (1958).
- Charles A. McClellandCharles A. McClellandCharles A. McClelland is an American political systems analyst and International Relations Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco State University, who was among the first to introduce General Systems Theory in the field of International Relations....
, "Systems and History in International Relations," General Systems Yearbook, III (1958).
The General Systems Yearbook also contains examples of the third kind of general systems activity — creating new laws and refining old.