Principles of Quantitative Living Systems Science by James R Simms
In 1978, when the book Living Systems was published, it contained the prediction that the sciences that were concerned with the biological and social sciences would, in the future, be stated as rigorously as the hard sciences that study such nonliving phenomena as temperature, distance, and the interaction of chemical elements. Principles of Quantitative Living Systems Science, the first of a planned series of three books, begins an attempt to fulfill that prediction. The view that living things are similar to other parts of the physical world, differing only in their complexity, was explicitly stated in the early years of the twentieth century by the biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy. His ideas could not be published until the end of the war in Europe in the 1940s. Von Bertalanffy was strongly opposed to vitalism, the theory current among biologists at the time that life could only be explained by recourse to a vital principle or God. He c- sidered living things to be a part of the natural order, systems like atoms and molecules and planetary systems. Systems were described as being made up of a number of interrelated and interdependent parts, but because of the interrelations, the total system became more than the sum of those parts. These ideas led to the development of systems movements, in both Europe and the United States, that included not only biologists but scientists in other fields as well. Systems societies were formed on both continents.-
The Foundations of Fuzzy Control
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Impulsive Systems on Hybrid Time Domains
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Anticipatory Systems
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Foundations and Applications of MIS
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Architecture of Systems Problem Solving
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Generalized Measure Theory
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General Systems Theory
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Extremal Fuzzy Dynamic Systems
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A Missing Link in Cybernetics
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Semantics-Oriented Natural Language Processing
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Constraint Theory
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Chaotic Logic
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Theory of Fuzzy Computation
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Organization Structure: Cybernetic Systems Foundation
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Probabilistic Analysis of Belief Functions
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Elements and Relations
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Bifurcation Theory of Impulsive Dynamical Systems
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Fuzzy Relational Systems
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Intelligent Robotic Systems
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Flexible Robot Dynamics and Controls
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Facets of Systems Science
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From Complexity to Creativity
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Creating Internet Intelligence
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Understanding Systems: Conversations on Epistemology and Ethics
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| ISBN 13 | 9781475786279 |
| ISBN 10 | 1475786271 |
| Title | Principles of Quantitative Living Systems Science |
| Author | James R Simms |
| Series | Ifsr International Series In Systems Science And Systems Engineering |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Year published | 2013-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 280 |
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