Systems Research Yearbook 1976

The 1976 yearbook summarizes the first decade of the series and documents the expansion of systems research in the USSR—from methodology to specific applications. Central themes include the organization and communication in science, the methodological status of systems analysis in management, and research on conceptual and symbolic systems (logic of knowledge, oral speech, antithetics). The preface discusses prospects and critiques, setting the agenda for the community's future methodological work.

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Organization and Communication in Science

• Activity and Systemicity. E.G. Yudin
• Prospective Connection in the System of Scientific Publications. I.V. Marshakova
• Communication as an Indicator of Connections in the System of Scientific Activity. T.P. Ivanova
• The Structure and Dynamics of Modern Science (Some Methodological Problems). A.I. Yablonsky
• An International Scientific Project as a System. A.D. Povzner
• Early Stages of Science Evaluation (On the Problem of Diachrony of System-Forming Factors). B.A. Starostin

Systems Analysis and Management Problems

• Systems Analysis as a Field of Research. E.P. Golubkov
• The Methodological Status of Systems Analysis in Management. A.B. Shein
• A Branch of Public Administration: A Functional-Objective Analysis. A.V. Obolonsky
• The Principle of Dual-Channel Control. I.V. Aleksakhin, A.V. Tkachenko
• A Logical Approach to Constructing the Language of Systems Analysis. I.S. Ladenko

Research on Conceptual and Symbolic Systems

• On One Type of Evolutionary Mechanism in the System of Physical Description. A.E. Levin
• The System of Scientific Knowledge and Its Logical Analysis. V.N. Kostyuk
• The Organization of Oral Speech. Yu.V. Rozhdestvensky
• Antithetics in Conceptual Systems. N.K. Gavryushin
• The Image of an Integral Personality in the Psychology of G. Allport. V.E. Kemerov

Authors

• Yudin, Erik Grigoryevich — philosopher; activity and systemicity.
• Obolonsky, Alexander Valentinovich — researcher of public administration; systems analysis in management studies.
• Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Valentinovich — linguist; the systemic organization of oral speech.
• Gavryushin, Nikolai Kirillovich — philosopher; antithetics in conceptual systems.
• Kostyuk, Vladimir Nikolaevich — philosopher; logical-systemic analysis of knowledge.