How to restore Bertalanffian systems thinking

Kybernetes

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-61

  Mulej, Matjaz ^a   Potocan, Vojko ^a   Zenko, Zdenka ^a   Kajzer, Stefan ^a   Ursic, Dusko ^a   Knez Riedl, Jozica ^a   Lynn, Monty ^b   Ovsenik, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; General system theory; Systems analysis; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEM THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BERTALANFFIAN SYSTEMS; GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 1842455926     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920410514346     Document Type: Article

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