Title :
The systems approach to the human system
Author_Institution :
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Abstract :
Admitting that there are problems with applying systems engineering to human systems, how can we sharply bound these problems so that they can be studied? The approach here taken is to study the relationship of mathematical languages to other language forms in a philosophical argument. The argument concludes that mathematical systems do not refer to human values, that the ordinary language of citizens and clients can do so only under special circumstances, and that coherent literary language employed in dramatic scenarios is the means of providing the tie between abstract systems and the human values of social life. Thus all three sorts of language must be employed in systems analysis applied to human systems.
Keywords :
Failure analysis; Humans; Logic; Process planning; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control including the 14th Symposium on Adaptive Processes, 1975 IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX, USA
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.1975.270662