An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Release on 2001 | by Gerald M. Weinberg

"Now an award-winning author of nearly forty books spanning the entire software development life cycle-including The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition and Exploring Requirements (with Donald C. Gause)-Weinberg ...

Author: Gerald M. Weinberg
Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 0932633498
Category: Technology & Engineering
Page: 279
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An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

For more than twenty-five years, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking has been hailed as an innovative introduction to systems theory, with applications in computer science and beyond. Used in university courses and professional seminars all over the world, the text has proven its ability to open minds and sharpen thinking.Originally published in 1975 and reprinted more than twenty times over a quarter century-and now available for the first time from Dorset House Publishing-the text uses clear writing and basic algebraic principles to explore new approaches to projects, products, organizations, and virtually any kind of system.Scientists, engineers, organization leaders, managers, doctors, students, and thinkers of all disciplines can use this book to dispel the mental fog that clouds problem-solving. As author Gerald M. Weinberg writes in the new Preface to the Silver Anniversary Edition, "I haven't changed my conviction that most people don't think nearly as well as they could had they been taught some principles of thinking."Now an award-winning author of nearly forty books spanning the entire software development life cycle-including The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition and Exploring Requirements (with Donald C. Gause)-Weinberg had already acquired extensive experience as a programmer, manager, university professor, and consultant when this book was originally published.With helpful illustrations, numerous end-of-chapter exercises, and an appendix on a mathematical notation used in problem-solving, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking may be your most powerful tool in working with problems, systems, and solutions.

Language: en
Pages: 279

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Authors: Gerald M. Weinberg

Categories: Technology & Engineering

Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Dorset House Publishing Company, Incorporated

Language: en
Pages: 279

An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

Authors: Gerald M. Weinberg

Categories: Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1975-02-12 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Incorporated

Makes the most generally applicable insights from general systems theorists and from disciplinarians available to the widest audience possible.

Language: en
Pages: 290

General Systems Theory

Authors: Lars Skyttner

Categories: Computer science

Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-11-11 - Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

Systems theorists see common principles in the structure and operation of systems of all kinds and sizes. They promote an interdisciplinary science, intended for universal application and having a common language and range of concepts. This approach is seen as a means to overcome the fragmentation of knowledge and the