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The Mysterious Discipline

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The introduction reviews the history of systems research and explains how the discipline has matured and divided into branches such as systems engineering, systems thinking, systems operations research, analysis of economic systems, theories for social and anthropological systems, modeling of biological systems, and management of organizational systems. This fragmentation of the discipline makes it difficult for a young student today or an interested novice without years of experience in a field that connects to systems studies to learn about systems analysis. There are many books written within each branch of systems research, but this book is unique and very much needed because it establishes a framework for studying systems that connects with all research branches but does not require the reader to have any prior backgrounds.

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