First principles: Systems and their analysis
This paper is intended to challenge systems professionals to think about systems -- not at the process level but at the foundational level: first principles. System principles at the concept level, and what one understands about them, determine what one practices at the process level -- that is, how one defines systems engineering''. When Kant, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and the others were deriving the natural laws, where was the comparable basic work in the natural order of things: systems Is our profession one of simply employing some fairly good empirical procedures Is there a legitimate place for a First Law of Systems'' alongside The First Law of Thermodynamics Who would do this research Who would fund it Is now the time Why should we care
- Research Organization:
- Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC06-87RL10930
- OSTI ID:
- 6199204
- Report Number(s):
- WHC-SA-1919; CONF-9307106-1; ON: DE93016822
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: National Council on Systems Engineering meeting, Washington, DC (United States), 26-28 Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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