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Index to Churchman's "The Design of Inquiring Systems"

Version 231116-1720 Customized complementary word & issue index for C. West Churchman, " The Design of Inquiring Systems: Basic Concepts of Systems and Organization " (New York: Basic Books, 1971) http://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/chuindex.pdf http://www8.informatik.umu.se/~kivanov/chuindex.html https://ia600105.us.archive.org/31/items/chuindex/chuindex.html This word & issue index (in html-format, with an earlier version in pdf-format) is customized to the purpose of fostering wider and deeper applications of a systems approach as related to scientific method and represented by West Churchman 's book The Design of Inquiring Systems (1972) . It has been out of print and can only be found in libraries, but an indication of its depth is obtained from its later review in 1985 & 2015 " The way of Inquiring Systems " (J. of the Operational Research Society, No. 9) and an early draft of the early work behind it, available on the net as a pdf-copy of the report On Inquiring Systems (also here , report SP-877, 13 July 1962), published by the System Development Corporation , Santa Monica, California. The book appears to have been motivated by the first hype in the sixties about Artific

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