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proceedings of the international congress on applied systems research and cybernetics
International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics (1980 : Acapulco, Mexico)
1 online resource (xxxii, 574 pages) : illustrations
Applied Systems and Cybernetics covers the proceedings of the International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics. The book presents several studies that cover the application of systems research and cybernetics in improving the quality of life. Majority of the materials in the text tackle various aspects of quality of life in relation to systems and cybernetics, such as living space, future prospects, work, education, politics, law, ethics and values, culture and ethnicity, and social systems. The selection also presents articles that cover the elemental properties of quality o.
Front Cover; Applied Systems and Cybernetics; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF AUTHORS; INDEX OF MAJOR SUBJECT AREAS; Part I: INAUGURAL ADDRESSES; Chapter 1. Systems, Cybernetics, and Subjectivity; KEYWORDS; Chapter 2. Intelligent Machines: They Are Coming; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; REFERENCE; Chapter 3. Personal Cybernetics as a System for Self Realization of the Individual in Industry; EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT; THE ORIGIN OF THE IDEA OF LIFE PLANNING -- EXPANSION OF THE LIFE PLANNING IDEA; MAN'S LIFE PLANNING; MY OWN PLAN FOR 1959.
MY OWN ONE YEAR PLAN FOR BETTER WORKPart II: QUALITY OF LIFE: CONCEPTS & VIEWS; Chapter 4. Quality of Life: The Process of Development of Legitimate Goals; ABSTRACT; KEY WORDS; INTRODUCTION; EMERGENCE OF SUPERORDINATE GOALS DISCERNED THROUGH TRADITION RESEARCH; EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL GOALS, ROLES AND STRUCTURE; RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT; REFERENCES; Chapter 5. An Engineer's View of the Quality of Life; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; 1. IS OUR CIVILISATION SLIDING TOWARDS DISASTER?; 2. CONDITIONS FOR A STABLE WORLD; 3. THE WAY OUT; 4. THE CREATIVE SOCIETY.
AN ENGINEER'S VIEW OF THE QUALITY OF LIFEChapter 6. Progress, Stratification and Quality of Life: A View from Anthropology; REFERENCES; REFERENCES; Chapter 7. Quality of Family Life as Perceived by Student Teachers; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW OF LITERATURE: TERMINOLOGY; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Part III: QUALITY OF LIFE: DIMENSIONS AND INDICATORS ; Chapter 8. Subjectivity and Objectivity as Co-Essential Dimensions of the Quality of Life; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; Chapter 9. Subjective and Objective Factors in Social Indicator and Quality of Life Models.
ABSTRACTKEYWORDS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; REFERENCES; Chapter 10. Social Positions, Social Inequality and Subjective Well-Being; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; SAMPLE; APPROACH; RESULTS; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 11. The Management of Human Resources in Business Systems: An Influential Variable in the Quality of Life; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; INTRODUCTION; THE INFLUENCE OF MANPOWER COST IN THE PROFITABILITY OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS. CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT THE SPANISH CASE; FINAL REMARKS; REFERENCES; Chapter 12. Simplicity: A Perspective on the Quality of Life; ABSTRACT.
KEYWORDSINTRODUCTION; THE MONEY PRINCIPLE; ACQUISITIVENESS; THE POSSESSIONS PRINCIPLE; SIMPLICITY PRINCIPLE; REFERENCES; Part IV: IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE: METHODOLOGICAL CONCEPTS; Chapter 13. A Framework of Reference to Improve the Quality of Life; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; SYSTEMIC IMPROVEMENT OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE; INTRINSIC LOGIC; CULTIVATION OF VALUE; SUB-SYSTEM OR SUB-SERVIENT SYSTEM; REFERENCES; Chapter 14. Speeding Up Improvement; ABSTRACT; KEYWORDS; PROBLEMFORMULATION; METHOD; EXAMPLE; REFERENCES; APPENDIX; Chapter 15. Is it Possible to Model Quality of Life?
Applied systems and cybernetics : Vol. 1, The quality of life: systems approaches