Description
Book SynopsisIntegrating ideas from the fields of systems science and knowledge science, Knowledge and Systems Science: Enabling Systemic Knowledge Synthesis shows how to create and justify various pieces of knowledge systemically. Written by one of the foremost experts in this area, the book presents approaches for the systemic integration of knowledge, which can help solve complex problems today and in the future.
After discussing issues of systemic knowledge synthesis, the book emphasizes the importance of the human dimension in problem solving and introduces a new integrated systems approach called the informed systems approach. It also covers mathematical information aggregation techniques.
Moving on to knowledge science concepts and approaches, the book discusses organizational and academic knowledge creation models and considers a sociological interpretation of the knowledge integration system. To support knowledge science as an academic discipli
Table of Contents
Issues of Systemic Synthesis. Systems Approaches. An Integrated Systems Approach. Mathematical Information Aggregation. The Emergence of Knowledge Science. Knowledge Creation Models. Knowledge Synthesis or Construction. Knowledge Justification. References. Index.
