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  title info:
    title: Applied systems and cybernetics
    sub title: proceedings of the international congress on applied systems research and cybernetics
    part number: Volume I
    part name: The quality of life: systems approaches
  title info:
    title: Quality of life
    sub title: systems approaches
  name:
    name part: International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics (1980 : Acapulco, Mexico)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Lasker, G. E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Congress
  genre: proceedings (reports)
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings.
  genre: Actes de congrès.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1981
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxii, 574 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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?
  note: edited by G.E. Lasker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: System theory
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Cybernetics
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Théorie des systèmes
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: Cybernétique
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: System Theory
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Operations Research
  subject:
    topic: Cybernetics
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  classification: Q295
  classification: 003
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    name:
      name part: International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics (1980 : Acapulco, Mexico).
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  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 141202
    record change date: 20260326212333.9
    record identifier: in00005758164
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng