Contents Listing

Foreword.
Preface.
1. Introduction.
2. Science and its methods.
3. Experiment and observation.
4. Simple systems.
5. Sets, states and logic.
6. Diagrammatical representations.
7. System variables.
8. Change in systems.
9. Information.
10. Stability.
11. Resource networks.
12. Task management and services.
13. System architectures.
14. System normalization.
15. System integrity.
16. Policy and maintenance.
17. Knowledge, learning and training.
18. Policy transgressions and fault modelling.
19. Decision and strategy.
20. Conclusions.
A. Some Boolean formulae.
B. Statistical and scaling properties of time-series data.
C. Percolation conditions.
Bibliography.
Index.