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Introduction to the Handbook of Systems Sciences

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The Handbook of Systems Sciences reflects the work of scholars whose thinking and practice cross a wide spectrum of disciplines. The intent of this handbook is not simply to be an overview of knowledge domains, but is the marking of milestones in their development. The formal study of systems, cybernetics, and complexity all date back to the early twentieth century. The principles on which those domains were founded trace back millennia. The chapters contained in this handbook describe the evolution of theories, and applications in practice, across familiar disciplines including engineering, management, ecology, education, and design. The hope for this work is to provide foundations on which future researchers and scholars can build.

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  1. InterConnections, LLC, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Gary Metcalf

  2. Graduate School of Decision Science & Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Decision Science & Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kyoichi Kijima

  3. Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hiroshi Deguchi

  4. Organizational Systems Research and Strategy, Equipoise Enterprises, Inc., Ithaca, NY, USA

    Mary Edson

  5. OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Peter Jones

  6. Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CA, USA

    John Kineman

  7. The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, VA, USA

    James Martin

  8. School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Shankar Sankaran

  9. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Environmental Studies, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CA, USA

    Carol Wessman

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Metcalf, G. et al. (2021). Introduction to the Handbook of Systems Sciences. In: Metcalf, G.S., Kijima, K., Deguchi, H. (eds) Handbook of Systems Sciences. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0370-8_81-1

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