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To make this book self-contained, this chapter introduces the basics of systems science necessary for the reader to understand all the conclusions developed in the rest of the book. This chapter is organized as follows: Section 2.1 introduces the reader to the concept of systems and its related history. Section 2.2 studies the basics of the systemic yoyo model and where it is from. Section 2.3 looks at some elementary properties of the yoyo model.
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Forrest, J.YL., Nicholls, J., Schimmel, K., Liu, S. (2020). Basics of Systems Science. In: Managerial Decision Making. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28064-2_2
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