Images of Systems and the Systems Images

IFSR Newsletter 1987/1988 No. 2 (16) Winter Excerpts from the Presidential Address to ISGSR’ Budapest June 1987 Prof. Peter Checkland Abstract: The systems movement – a failure? To a superficial observer it might seem that… Read more »

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IFSR Newsletter 1987/1988 No. 2 (16) Winter

Table of Contents IMAGES OF SYSTEMS AND THE SYSTEMS IMAGE, Peter Checkland…1 A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR VILLAGE HEALTH WORKERS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES…3 NEW BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS…3 UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM: EARN A GRADUATE DEGREE IN SYSTEMS… Read more »

No Need for Communication?

IFSR Newsletter 1987 No. 1 (15) Summer Stephen Sokoloff A new age may soon be at hand. To understand what I mean, you just have to study the rights diagrams. Connecting a certain box in… Read more »

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IFSR Newsletter 1987 No. 1 (15) Summer

Table of Contents THE AUSTRIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE (OFAI)…1 NO NEED FOR COMMUNICATION? Stephen Sokoloff…2 REALISM ACCORDING TO MACH, CARNAP AND GODEL, ECKEHART KOHLER…2 REVIEW OF UKSS WORKSHOP, 26 AND 27 MARCH 1987,… Read more »

CAST – Computer Aided Systems Theory

IFSR Newsletter 1986 Vol. 6 No. 3 Winter A short report on a research activity at the Institute of Systems Science of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria FRANZ PICHLER Systems Theory is a field… Read more »

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Electronic Brains Save Endangered Species

IFSR Newsletter 1986 Vol. 6 No. 3 Winter A SYSTEMS-SCIENCE PROJECT AT AUSTRIA’S UNIVERSITY OF LlNZ: ELECTRONIC BRAINS SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES STEPHEN SOKOLOFF Mankind’s inventive cleverness has rarely been a boon for Mother Nature. Technological… Read more »

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IFSR Newsletter 1986 Vol. 6 No. 3 Winter

Table of Contents A SYSTEMS-SCIENCE PROJECT AT AUSTRIA’S UNIVERSITY OF LlNZ: ELECTRONIC BRAINS SAVE ENDANGERED SPECIES, STEPHEN SOKOLOFF…1 CAST – COMPUTER AIDED SYSTEMS THEORY, FRANZ PICHLER…2 ABOUT OUR NEWSLETTER…3 BOOKS, JOURNALS, ORGANIZATIONS…3 REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE… Read more »

Science Education – a Holistic Approach

IFSR Newsletter 1986 Vol. 6 No. 2 Summer FRANZ PICHLER, LINZ Contemporary science education is largely outdated, according to Franz Pichler. Teachers do to not inform their pupils about many of today’s most urgent problems.… Read more »

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