Systems Research Yearbook 1972

The materials from the 1972 'Systems Research' yearbook focus on the formation of the systems approach as a tool for studying science itself: the structure of scientific teams, parameters of scientific and technological progress, and interdisciplinary connections. The second part documents the penetration of systems ideas into specific disciplines—from value problems and classical mechanics to geography and psychology, including issues of the survivability of complex systems and the definition of a 'system parameter'. The volume concludes with a section on the structural aspects of systemic objects (linguistics, binary structures, and semiotics), highlighting a shift towards the analysis of formal languages and models. Overall, the issue demonstrates a focus shift from declarations to the operationalization of systems concepts in research practice.

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The Systems Approach to the Study of Science

• Interdisciplinary Research as an Object of Study in the Science of Science. E.M. Mirsky
• On Some Extremal Problems Related to the Structure of a Scientific Team. I. Levin
• Systemic Characteristics of Scientific and Technological Activity. M.K. Petrov

Systems Ideas in Specific Scientific Disciplines

• Systems Analysis and the Problem of Values. A.I. Katsenelinboigen
• Methods for Investigating Systemic Objects in Classical Mechanics. I.S. Alekseev
• Physical-Geographical Research and the Systems Approach. A.Yu. Reteyum
• On the Problem of the Integrity of the Subject of Study in Psychology. N.I. Nepomnyashchaya
• Paradoxes of Systems Thinking. V.N. Sadovsky
• Towards a Theory of Survivability of Complex Systems. E.I. Orlov, V.P. Belov, E.E. Latyshev
• Towards a Definition of the Concept of a 'System Parameter'. V.I. Bogdanovich

Structural Aspects of Systemic Objects

• On the Relationship Between Structural and Systems Approaches in Modern Linguistics. I.I. Revzin
• The Systems Approach in Linguistics. G.P. Melnikov
• Binary Structures in Semiotic Systems. V.V. Ivanov

Authors

• Mikhail Konstantinovich Petrov — Soviet philosopher; researched science as a system and the methodology of interdisciplinary studies.
• Aaron Iosifovich Katsenelinboigen (Aaron Katsenelinboigen) — economist and methodologist; developer of the "predisposition" concept in the systems analysis of economics.
• Aleksey Yuryevich Reteyum — geographer; author of works on physical-geographical systems and their classification.
• Vadim Nikolaevich Sadovsky — philosopher; systems approach, general systems theory.
• Igor Ilyich Revzin — linguist; works on the structural and systemic aspects of language.
• Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov — linguist and semiotician; systems approach in the humanities.