Basic Notions and Models in Systems Science

Abstract

The development of the idea of seeing parts of the world as ‘related objects’ or the ‘systemic view’ and its relation to conventional science is briefly described. Concepts in the systemic view regarded as fundamental and their expression as linguistic and mathematical models which would turn this view into ‘systems science’, are introduced. Products are represented as sets and linguistic networks of ordered pairs. Semantic diagrams describe the dynamics of change. A case study to illustrate the basic notions and models is given.