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Systems Profile: The Emergence of Systems Science

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In retrospect, it seems that the general shape of my systems profile was determined early in my professional career and under rather special circumstances. I refer here to the period 1952–1964: the 1950s were the years of my university studies (undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and graduate studies in computer science) and the early 1960s were the years during which I was primarily involved in industrial computer research. The place was Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia.

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Klir, G.J. (1991). Systems Profile: The Emergence of Systems Science. In: Facets of Systems Science. International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0718-9_24

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