Systems Research Yearbook 1981

The 1981 issue is dedicated to management problems: from goal-setting and organizational-economic structures to models of social and economic behavior and the communication mechanisms of science. A special section covers systemicity and design: design programs are considered as integrating structures for project activities. Overall, the volume links systems analysis with the tasks of forecasting, planning, and management practice.

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Systems Analysis and Management Problems

• Systems, Goal-Directedness, Reflection. S.V. Emelyanov, E.L. Nappelbaum
• Forecasting and Planning. V.I. Danilov-Danilyan, A.A. Rybkin
• Systems Analysis of the Quality of Activity Planning for Complex Production Facilities. Yu.M. Gorlin, V.N. Livshits

Methodological Problems of Social and Economic Research

• Methodological Aspects of Using Multidimensional Scaling in Systems Research. A.Yu. Terekhina
• Mathematical Description of Inter-territorial Migration and Labor Mobility of the Population. G.M. Zuev
• Systems Theory and the Study of Natural Language: Concepts of Symmetry and Status. M.V. Arapov
• The System of Artistic Culture as an Object of Forecasting. V.M. Petrov
• A Systems Approach to the Study of Mental Pathology. P.S. Grave
• Information Interaction of Living Systems with the Environment (Evolutionary Aspect). A.Yu. Akopov

Structure and Development of Scientific Knowledge

• Principles and General Scheme for the Methodological Organization of System-Structural Research and Development. G.P. Shchedrovitsky
• The Formation of Theoretical Systems Engineering. V.G. Gorokhov
• Methodological Aspects of Representing Self-Reproducing Systems and Goal-Directed Activity. V.M. Sarychev
• Multi-criteria Problems in the Methodology of Science as an Expression of the Systemicity of Knowledge. A.A. Olitsky
• Dynamics of Research Activity and Structural Mechanisms of Communication. A.A. Ignatiev

The Principle of Systemicity and Problems of Design

• The Paradigm of System Design. L.A. Kuzmichev, V.F. Sidorenko
• Systems Design and the Systems Approach to Forming a Project Concept. D.N. Shchelkunov
• Classification and Typology in the Methodology of System Design. A.G. Ustinov

Authors

• Stanislav Vasilyevich Emelyanov — Soviet and Russian scientist in the field of control theory; academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences/Russian Academy of Sciences; one of the founders of the theory of variable structure systems.
• Viktor Ivanovich Danilov-Danilyan — economist and statesman; academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences; works on resource conservation and ecological economics.
• Veniamin Naumovich Livshits — economist and systems analyst; professor, author of works on evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects and transport economics.
• Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky — philosopher and methodologist; creator of the system-activity methodology, founder of the Moscow Methodological Circle.
• Vitaly Georgievich Gorokhov — philosopher of science and technology; Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, long-time employee of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.