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Logically and historically, the content of cybernetics has indissoluble connection with the category of “system” (see Appendix A). Here the key role belongs to two terms—systems approach and systems analysis.
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Integrity and commitment to a common goal form a backbone factor.
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An aggregate of stable connections among system elements, ensuring its integrity and self-identity, is called its structure.
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Systems analysis and operations research are correlated as strategy and tactics, see [92, p. 1].
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The classical range of operations research includes choice problems, multicriteria decision-making, linear, nonlinear and dynamic programming, Markov processes, queuing theory, game-theoretic methods in decision-making, networked planning and reliability theory.
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S. Beer defined management science as “the business use of operations research.”.
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Holism is an approach treating complex systems as a whole; it claims that the properties of complex systems cannot be derived via examining the properties of their elements.
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Novikov, D.A. (2016). Systems Theory and Systems Analysis. Systems Engineering. In: Cybernetics. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27397-6_4
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