From Collective Beings to Quasi-Systems

• Main Authors: Minati, Gianfranco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pessa, Eliano (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Contemporary Systems Thinking,
• Subjects: Operations research.; Decision making.; System theory.; Economic sociology.; Operations Research/Decision Theory.; Complex Systems.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book outlines a possible future theoretical perspective for systemics, its conceptual morphology and landscape while the Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics (GOFS) era is still under way. The change from GOFS to future systemics can be represented, as shown in the book title, by the conceptual change...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Background of Good-Old-Fashioned-Systemics
• Part. I
• Chapter 2. Perspective new conceptual categories
• Chapter 3. Dynamics
• Chapter 4. From collective beings to quasi-systems
• Chapter 5. New formalisation?
• Chapter 6. Theoretical systemics and quantum field theory
• Chapter 7. Towards a new systemics
• Chapter 8. Network science as new systemics
• Part II
• Chapter 9. Translation into social culture
• Chapter 10. Cases
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2.