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Interview: The Systems View from Barry G. Silverman: A Systems Scientist

Interview: The Systems View from Barry G. Silverman: A Systems Scientist

Manuel Mora, Miroljub Kljajic
Copyright: © 2010 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 7
ISSN: 1935-570X|EISSN: 1935-5718|EISBN13: 9781609609276|DOI: 10.4018/jsita.2010070105
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Mora, Manuel, and Miroljub Kljajic. "Interview: The Systems View from Barry G. Silverman: A Systems Scientist." IJITSA vol.3, no.2 2010: pp.57-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2010070105

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Mora, M. & Kljajic, M. (2010). Interview: The Systems View from Barry G. Silverman: A Systems Scientist. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA), 3(2), 57-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2010070105

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Mora, Manuel, and Miroljub Kljajic. "Interview: The Systems View from Barry G. Silverman: A Systems Scientist," International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) 3, no.2: 57-63. http://doi.org/10.4018/jsita.2010070105

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Abstract

In this short article, we present an e-interview to a well-recognized system scientist Barry G. Silverman, who is Professor of Systems Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Ackoff Collaboratory for Advancement of the Systems Approach (ACASA) in the same university. In this e-interview, Professor Silverman, teach us on the origins, and still applicability and need of the Systems Approach, but now focused on the present complex social systems. A Systems Approach must and can provide a white-box research approach and advance on the limitations of the reductionist black-box research approaches. Professor Silverman, also alert us on the scarcity of PhD academic programs covering these systems approaches and makes a call for continuing the “difficult missionary effort” of teaching and doing research on the Systems Approach .

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