Abstract
Systems science is defined in general fashion, and a brief background is provided that lists some of the systems science-related societies, conferences, journals, research institutes, and educational programs. The Systems Science Graduate Program at Portland State University in Portland, OR, USA, is described in detail, including its history, curriculum, students, faculty, and degrees granted. Dissertation topics are summarized via word diagrams created from dissertation titles over the years. MS degrees, student placement, and undergraduate courses are also mentioned, and future plans for the program are described including its support for sustainability education.
Highlights
Systems science [1] is the study of general principles that govern systems of widely differing types, and the use of systems ideas and methods in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research and socio-technical system design and management
The weights connecting the nodes are determined through a training process employing input/output data records that seeks to minimize the error in the values at the output layer compared to the actual data, both for the dataset used for training and test data sets not used for training
Note that most of the UG credit hours are generated by graduate students teaching UG courses, and that several of these courses were developed by the students
Summary
Systems science [1] is the study of general principles that govern systems of widely differing types, and the use of systems ideas and methods in interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary research and socio-technical system design and management. Systems science draws on the natural and social sciences, mathematics, computer science, and engineering to address complex problems in both the public and private sectors. For historical context, both the International Society for the Systems Sciences [2] and the system dynamics field were founded in 1956. The Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences [3]. Began its annual conference in 1967, and the International Journal of Systems Science [4] began publication in 1970. While the term interdisciplinary is most commonly used to describe systems-oriented endeavors, the terms crossdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, or multidisciplinary may be more apt or descriptive in some cases. Systems science is perhaps best described as transdisciplinary, interdisciplinary is not incorrect
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