INDEX Rev 1.6

ISSS Integrated Systems Inquiry Primer

"In systems inquiry, the four domains: Philosophy, Theory, Methodology and Application are in dynamic, multiple-causal interactive relationship."
Bela Banathy

PHILOSOPHY definition
- Wholeness Principle,
  - Relationship
  - Relational Element
  - Emergent Property
  - Wholistic Principle
- Relationship Principle
  - Identity
  - Relationship
  - Emergence
- Consciousness Principle
  - Internal
  - External
  - Transcending principle
- Non-Identity Principle
  - Misplaced concreteness
  - Maya
  - 1st Illusion
  - 2nd Illusion
- Differentialtion/Integration principle
  - Ternary Unification
  - Ternary dimensions
- Types of philosophy
  - Ontology (logical positivism)
  - Ontology (systemic)
  - Epistemology (Empirical science)
  - Epistemology (Systemic science)
  - Subjectivism/objectivism/bothism
  - Monism, Dualism, Plualism
  - Idealism/Rationalism/Wholism
- Prinicples of General Systems
  - Relationships
  - Organization
  - Isomorphy
  - Wholeness
- Organismic philosophy,
  - Misplaced Concreteness
  - Isomorphy
  - Open systems
  - Organismic systems
- General-semantics,
  - Non-elementalism
  - Reversal of abstraction
  - Non-identity
- Klir (p148)
  - Source Systems
  - Data Systems
  - Generative System
  - Structure System
  - Meta System
  - Meta-Meta-System
- Systems representation
  - Modeling
- SYSTEMIC THEORY
  - Definition
    - Dooyeweerd (p149)
    - Numeric
    - Spacial
    - Kinemaatic
    - Physical
    - Biotic
    - Sensitive
    - Logical
    - Informatory
    - Social
    - Economic
    - Aesthetic
    - Jurddicial
    - Etihical
    - Credal
    - Boulding (p148)
    - Frameworks
    - Clockworks
    - Thermostat
    - Cell
    - Plant
    - Animal
    - Human
    - Social Organization
  - Ontology (systemic)
    - Epistemology
      - "Specific Theories"
    - Human activity systems
    - Artificial systems
    - Physical systems
    - Cybernetic systems
    - Second Order Cybernetic Systems
    - Intelligent Systems
    - Personality Systems
    - Emancipitory systems
    - Whole systems
    - Synegy systems
    - Process systems
    - Literature systems
    - Mathematical systems
    - Social systems
    - Semantical systems
    - Modeling systems
    - Management systems
    - Organizational systems
    - Information systems (Simms p305)
    - Spiritual systems.
    - Beautiful systems
    - Protracted systems
    - Educational systems
    - Deterministic systems
    - Indeterministic systems
    System Theories
    - Critical systems theory,
    - Liberating systems theory,
    - Organismic theory,
    - Activity Theory (p293?)
    - Relationship Theory
    - Living systems theory,
    - Soft Systems Theory,
    - Dynamic Systems Theory,
    - A general theory of dynamic systems,
    - Complexity Theory
  - Complexity levels: (fm Francois)
    - Miller's taxonomy of living systems; levels of organization;
    - Critical Subsystems; Translevel Hypothesis.
  - The various kinds of systems:
    - Their ways of processing energy, matter and information.
    - Neural nets and complex systems genesis.
  - From autopoiesis to autogenesis and vice-versa.
    - The limits of autonomy; controls, natural and artificial; cybenetics of the complex control.
  - Complex cyclical behavior in systems:
    - Deterministic chaos; limits to determinism in prospective and planning; multi-level cyclivcal forecasting and planning.
  - Cybernetics of second order:
    - The observer according to von Foerster, Maturana, and Jumarie;
    - Korzybski's Structural differential
  - Creation of information: Information treatment; formalized languages.
- SYSTEMIC TOOLS
- Definition
  - Metaphors, analogies, isomorphies:
    - Their transdisciplinary uses.
  - Cybermetics,
  - Cybernetics 1
    - Positive, negative and compensating feedbacks
    - Regulation, control and hierarchy
    - Variety and constraints
    - Law of requiste variety
  - Cybernetics 11
  - Information: signs, signals, significations, data, codes, languages, messages
    - Communication: Transmission and quantification of information.
    - Channels, Noise, Redundancy
  - Chaos theory
  - Catstrophe theory,
  - Dissipative structures,
  - Process Logic (p103)
    - graphs and
    - matrixes, etc.
    - modeling
    - simulation
- TYPES OF SYSTEMS
- Definition
- METHODOLOGY
- Definition
  - Meta-Methodologies (systems dealing with systems)
    - TOP (Linstone)
    - WSR (Gu and Zhu or Zhu and Gu)
    - MMD (de Raadt)
    - TSI (Total Systems Intervention - Flood and Jackson)
  - Methodologies for complex systems
    - Operational Research
    - Systems engineering (e.g. Hall)
    - Systmes analysis (e.g. Rand Co.)
    - Systems dynamics (Forrester)
    - A methdology of models derived from these concepts: Controlllers, Feedbacks, Homeostat, Hypercycle, Learning matrixes, Markovian Matrixes, Metamocelling, Neural networks, etc..
  - Methodologies for mass situations
    - Interactive planning (Ackoff)
    - Strategy assumption surfacing and testing (Mitroff and Mason)
    - Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland)
    - Problem structuring methods (Rosenhead)
    - Management/Organisation Cybernetics
    - Viable Systems design and diagnosing (Beer)
  - Methodologies for ethical critique and dealing with power relations
    - Critical Systems Heuristics (Ulrich)
    - Unified Systemic Taxonomy (Bhola p225)
    - Heuristics (Dudek.P275)
- APPLICATIONS
- Definition
  - HPCC High Performance Computing and Communications (p1)
  - Living System Theory (57)
  - Critical Factor Analysis (CFA) (p237)
  - Teaching-Learning Model (Perlaza.p249)
  - Educational Transformation (Zabawa. p267)
  - Industrial Systems Engineering (Konkol p285)
  - Interactive Information System (Bazewicz.p343)
  - Computers, etc. (p347
  - Self-Organizing Information (Goorhuis.p387)
  - Organizational-technical systems (Strijbos.p456
  - Integrated Systems Primer Project
    - Family as a General Systems Theory,
    - PART (A) General definition: System like a family of relationships among the members acting as a whole."
    - PART (B) Particular definition: Systems, from the four directions of philosophy, theory, methodology and Application, in dynamic, multiple-causal interactive relationship, acting as a family, having members in a meaningful relationship acting as wholes and possessing organization as a process with aspects determined by boundaries set by the observer according to subjective and objective considerations that might be static or dynamic, with qualities or quantities that are simplicity compared relatively to complexity resulting in closed or open systems having form and function which can have emergent effects creating an evolution or devolution depending on internal or external relationships utilizing diffentiation and integration to form order out of chaoic behavior all at once over a period of time i.e., "autopoiesis" (self generation)
    - Primer Systemic Taxonomy
    - Primer Toolbox In terms of Philosophy, Theory, Methodology and Application.
      - Family
      - members
      - Relationships
      - acting
      - wholes
      - organization
      - process
      - aspects
      - boundaries
      - reference
      - observer
      - entities
      - identity
      - subjective
      - objective
      - static
      - dynamic
      - quality
      - quantity
      - simplicity
      - complexity
      - internal
      - external
      - closed
      - open
      - form
      - function
      - emergence
      - generation
      - unification
      - integration
      - chaos
      - differentiation
      - order
      - evolution
      - involution
      - devolution
        are relevant to systems inquiry.