# Systems Science Bibliography 2022-06 ## Bibliography **Systems Science** - Ackoff RL (1971) Towards a system of systems concepts. Manag Sci 17(11):661–671 - Boulding KJ (1956) General systems theory – the skeleton of science. Manage Sci 2:197. Reprinted in Klir, 2001 - Capra F, Luisi PL (2014) The systems view of life: a unifying vision. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK - Checkland P (1999) Systems thinking, systems practice, includes a 30-year retrospective. Wiley, Chichester - Churchman CW (1968b) The systems approach. Delacorte Press, New York - Forrester J (1968) Principles of systems. Pegasus Communications, Waltham, MA - Forrester JW (1994). Learning through system dynamics as preparation for the 21st century. http:// clexchange.org/ftp/documents/whyk12sd/Y_2009-02LearningThroughSD.pdf. Accessed 18 Feb 2014 - Friendshuh L, Troncale L (2012) SoSPT I.: Identifying fundamental systems processes for a general theory of systems (GTS). 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Open SUNY Textbooks, Geneseo - Troncale LR (1978b) Linkage propositions between fifty principal systems concepts. In: Klir GJ (ed) Applied general systems research: recent developments and trends: N.A.T.O. conference series II. Systems science. Plenum Press, New York, pp 29–52 - Troncale LR (1993) Qualitative and quantitative research on hierarchies as a case study of general systems research. In: Ethical management of science as a system, 37th annual proceedings of the international society for systems science, International Society for the Systems Sciences - Troncale LR (2006) Toward a science of systems. Syst Res Behav Sci 23:301–321. Wiley Interscience http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sres.729/abstract;jsessionid=A67D2 8A263EB8BE7D9E3A8F62ADBF27E.f03t01. Accessed 13 July 2017 - Warfield JN (2006) An introduction to systems science. World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore - Wimsatt, William C. (1994). “The Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 24:sup1, 207-274. - Wolfram S (2002) A new kind of science. Wolfram Media Inc., Champaign, IL - von Bertalanffy L (1969) General systems theory: foundations, development, applications. George Braziller, New York, NY - von Foerster H (1981) Observing systems. Intersystems Publications, Seaside **Ontology** - Barabási AL (2002) Linked: the new science of networks. Perseus, Cambridge, MA - Barabási AL (2003) Linked: how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life. Penguin Group, New York **Dynamics** - Gleick J (1987) Chaos: making a new science. Penguin, New York, NY - Radzicki MJ, Taylor RA (2008) Origin of system dynamics: Jay W. Forrester and the history of system dynamics. In: U.S. Department of Energy’s introduction to system dynamics. http:// [www.systemdynamics.org/DL-IntroSysDyn/start.htm. 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(1962) “The Architecture of Complexity.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106(6): 467-482. - Walby, Sylvia. (2007). “Complexity Theory, Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Social Inequalities.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37(4): 449-470. - Weaver W (1948) Science and complexity. Am Sci 36:536–544. http://philoscience.unibe.ch/ documents/uk/weaver1948.pdf. Accessed Jan 2013 **Cybernetics** - Beer S (1959) Cybernetics and management. English University Press, London - Beer S (1966) Decision and control: the meaning of operational research and management cybernetics. Wiley, New York - Heylighen F, Joslyn C (2001) Cybernetics and second order cybernetics. In: Meyers RA (ed) Encyclopedia of physical science & technology, 3rd edn. Academic Press, New York. Accessed at: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Papers/Cybernetics-EPST.pdf - Heylighen F, Rosseel E, Demeyere F (eds) (1990) Self-steering and cognition in complex systems: toward a new cybernetics. Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York - Schwarz E (1997) Toward a holistic cybernetics: from science through epistemology to being. Cybern Hum Know 4:17–50 - Wiener N (1948) Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine. MIT Press, Cambridge MA; 2nd revised edition 1961 - von Foerster H (1974) Cybernetics of cybernetics. University of Illinois, Urbana. OCLC 245683481 - von Foerster H (2003) Understanding understanding: essays on cybernetics and cognition. Springer, New York **Information** - Ash RB (1965, 1990) Information Theory. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc - Avery J (2003) Information theory and evolution. World Scientific, Hackensack NJ - Casti JL (1994) Complexification: explaining a paradoxical world through the science of surprise. Harper Collins, New York - Dretske FI (1999) Knowledge and the flow of information. CLSI Publications, Palo Alto - Grisogono A-M (2017) (How) Did information emerge. 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Accessed 13 Aug 2017 **Computation** - Harel D (1987) The science of computing: exploring the nature and power of algorithms. AddisonWesley Publishing Company, Inc., New York - Patt YN, Patel SJ (2004) Introduction to computing systems: from bits to gates to C & beyond, 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, New York - Wolf M (2012) Computers as components: principles of embedded computing system design. Elsevier, New York **Control** - Ashby WR (1958) Requisite variety and its implications for the control of complex systems. Cybernetica 1(2):83–99, Available online: http://medicinaycomplejidad.org/pdf/soporte/ashbyreqvar.pdf - Findeisen W, Bailey FN, Brdys M, Malinowski K, Tatjewski P, Wozniak A (1980) Control and coordination in hierarchical systems. Wiley, New York - Remington K, Pollack J (2012) Complexity, decision-making and requisite variety. http://www. elefsis.org/Complexity_Decisionmaking_and_Requisite_Variety_Remington. Accessed 17 May 2014 **Emergence** - Holland JH (1998) Emergence: from chaos to order. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading, MA - Morowitz HJ (2002) The emergence of everything: how the world became complex. Oxford University Press, New York, NY - Wilson. Jessica. (2015). “Metaphysical Emergence: Weak and Strong.” In: Tomasz Bigaj and Christian Wüthrich (eds.), Metaphysics in Contemporary Physics, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and Humanities, vol. 104, pp. 345-402. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi \| Brill. **Evolution** - Kauffman S (1993) The origins of order: self-organization and selection in evolution. Oxford University Press, Oxford - Kauffman S (1995) At home in the universe: the search for the laws of self-organization and complexity. Oxford University Press, New York, NY - Kauffman S (2000) Investigations. Oxford University Press, New York, NY - Troncale LR (1978a) Origins of hierarchical levels: an emergent evolutionary process based on systems concepts. In: Ericson R (ed) Proceedings of the 22nd annual meeting of the Society for General Systems Research (SGSR), pp 84–94. [Note: This Society has been renamed: International Society for Systems Science, ISSS] **Adaptation** - Ford A (2010) Modeling the environment, 2nd edn. Island Press, Washington - Holland JH (2006) Studying complex adaptive systems. J Syst Sci Complex 19(1):1–8 - Miller JH, Page SE (2007) Complex adaptive systems: an introduction to computational models of social life. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ - Rosen R (1985) Anticipatory systems: philosophical, mathematical, and methodological foundations. Pergamon Press, Oxford - Staddon JER (2001) Adaptive dynamics: the theoretical analysis of behavior. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA - Sutton RS, Barto AG (1998) Reinforcement learning: an introduction. The MIT, Cambridge - Varela FG, Maturana HR, Uribe R (1974) Autopoiesis: the organization of living systems, its characterization and a model. Biosystems 5(4):187–196 - von Neumann J (1966) Theory of self-reproducing automata, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. Available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20080306035741/http://www.walenz.org/ vonNeumann/index.html