General Systems: Yearbook of the Society for General Systems Research, known as General Systems, is the first annual journal in the field of systems science initiated in 1956, and initially edited by Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Anatol Rapoport.
Since 1998, it has been published as issue 5 of Systems Research and Behavioral Science.
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