Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
Memory Analysis Patterns (MAPs) including memory dump, malware, software trace (TAPs), and other patterns and pattern catalogs from Software Diagnostics Institute form the very rich semantic network. Now it is possible (by using a metaphorical bijection) to create a catalog of General Patterns of Abnormal Structure and Behaviour including software, hardware, biological behavior including animal (ethology) and human behavior, sociological and historical behavior including economics, business and finance, ethics and law, and even behavior of chemical and physical systems. Such “GAPs of Structure and Behavior” may include wait chains, spikes, deadlocks, etc. We provide more specific examples in the forthcoming parts. So we are a few steps closer to realization of my old dangerous idea of a parameterized science of universal memory dumps by the so called science files or might event a general diagnostics discipline.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org + TraceAnalysis.org -
Posted in Announcements, Anthropology, Biology, Business, Catastrophe Theory, Causality, Chaos, Chemistry, Complexity, Computation, Economics, Ethics, General Abnormal Patterns, General Memory Analysis, General Science, Hardware, History, Humanities, Ideas, Language, Life, Medicine, Physics, Political Economy, Politics, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Religion, Semantics, Semiotics, Social Media, Social Sciences, Software Generalist Worldview, Software and Business, Software and Economics, Software and History, Software and Industrial Production, Software and Politics, Software and Religion, Software and Science, Software and Sociology, Structural Memory Analysis and Social Sciences, Systems Theory, Systems Thinking | No Comments »
Monday, September 17th, 2012
If you liked An Introduction to General Systems Thinking book then you really need this comprehensive introduction which is more formal. Don’t be overwhelmed by the number of pages, you only need to read part 1, the first 218 pages as the rest is a collection of articles you can read selectively later on. For me one of the great features was the coverage of systems literature including some mathematical treatment books (including category theory in addition to famous Rosen’s books such as Anticipatory Systems). I also liked the discussion of critics of general systems theory that points to the fact that it should be called general systems-theory not general-systems theory. Highly recommended.
Facets of Systems Science (IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering)


- Dmitry Vostokov @ LiterateScientist.com -
Posted in Applied Mathematics, Biology, Catastrophe Theory, Causality, Chaos, Complexity, Computer Science, General Science, Ideas, Life, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematics, Nonlinear Science, Philosophy, Reading List 2012, Social Sciences, Systems Theory | No Comments »