Systems Research Forum (SRF)
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A system is a set of elements interacting purposefully to achieve some common goal that is reinforced by four basic principals: 1) The whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts and there are consequences for not understanding the dynamics of each part; 2) There are multilateral causality among elements, systems, and the environments they function in; 3) One set of initial conditions can give rise to different final states; and 4) There is concern with the flow of information between elements or systems. Systems research is thus the intellectual application in the investigation of systems and the trans-disciplinary study of the organization of phenomena, independent of their substance, type, or spatial or temporal scale of existence, while in a continual attempt to develop integrated phenomena of study in any of a number of different disciplines. As a forum for systems research, we invite original research papers and case studies addressing the various aspects of systems — engineering, management, analysis, test and evaluation, cost and life cycle analysis, design, integration and interoperability, enterprises, architecting, measurement and metrics, simulation and modeling, cognition, and thinking. As systems are not restricted to a single domain, we encourage papers from a variety of disciplines, such as aerospace, defense, physical and cyber infrastructure, medical and health care, maritime and border, security, energy, environmental, transportation, finance and economy, information, education and training.