Systems Research and the Quest for Scientific Systems Principles
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This paper proposes that a model of how principles and laws are understood across the specialized sciences can, when applied to systems science, open up new ways to discover systems principles, and identifies six new avenues for discovering systems principles.About:
This article is published in System.The article was published on 2017-03-23 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Systems science & System of systems.read more
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The Earth's Magnetosphere: A Systems Science Overview and Assessment.
TL;DR: An assessment is made of the applicability of several system descriptors, such as adaptive, nonlinear, dissipative, interdependent, open, irreversible, and complex, and the various types of magnetospheric waves that couple the behaviors of the subsystems to each other are explained, which yields a roadmap of the connectivity of the magnetosphere system.
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Identifying general trends and patterns in complex systems research: An overview of theoretical and practical implications
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On the Architecture of Systemology and the Typology of Its Principles
TL;DR: It is argued that the ability to improve systems Engineering’s methods depends on making the principles of systemology, of which systems engineering is a part, more diverse and more scientific.
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Exploration of a Composite Index to Describe Magnetospheric Activity: Reduction of the Magnetospheric State Vector to a Single Scalar
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Three General Systems Principles and Their Derivation: Insights from the Philosophy of Science Applied to Systems Concepts
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the nature of such principles, shows how scientific systems principles could be discovered by applying insights from the philosophy of science and illustrates this approach by deriving three general systems principles that have practical significance for science, design and management.
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The search for organizing principles as a cure against reductionism in systems medicine.
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Revisiting generality in biology: systems biology and the quest for design principles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that design principles increase our understanding of living systems by relating specific models to general types, and characterize the basis for general principles through generic abstraction and reasoning about possibility spaces.
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The Top 10 Illusions of Systems Engineering: A Research Agenda
Michael J. Pennock,Jon Wade +1 more
TL;DR: The top 10 assumptions in systems engineering are presented, which are often illusory in today's systems environment and are inadequate to support the discipline's necessary transformation.