''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 Systems science, also referred to as systems research or simply systems, is a transdisciplinary field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society, which leads to the advancements of formal, natural, socia ...

initiated in 1956, and initially edited by

Ludwig von Bertalanffy Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (19 September 1901 – 12 June 1972) was an Austrian biologist known as one of the founders of general systems theory (GST). This is an interdisciplinary practice that describes systems with interacting components, app ...

and

Anatol Rapoport Anatol Borisovich Rapoport (; ; May 22, 1911January 20, 2007) was an American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to general systems theory, to mathematical biology and to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic ...

. Since 1998, it has been published as issue 5 of

Systems Research and Behavioral Science A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole. A system, surrounded and influenced by its environment, is described by its boundaries, structure and purpose and is exp ...

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General Systems has been the first journal of the

Society for General Systems Research The International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) is a worldwide organization for systems sciences. The overall purpose of the ISSS is: to promote the development of conceptual frameworks based on general system theory, as well as their i ...

published independently until the 1980s. Ever since it has been published as one of the items of the

. The journal started as a selecting of publications by several of the "foundational authors of the

systems sciences Systems science, also referred to as systems research or simply systems, is a Transdisciplinarity, transdisciplinary field that is concerned with understanding simple and complex systems in nature and society, which leads to the advancements of f ...

", and contains some of the classic works in the field of systems theory, such as: *

, "General Systems Theory," in ''General Systems Yearbook'' 1 (1956), *

Kenneth Boulding Kenneth Ewart Boulding (; January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993) was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher.David LatzkoKenneth E. Boulding Comments at personal.psu.edu. Accessed 24 April 20 ...

, "General Systems Theory -- The Skeleton of Science," General Systems Yearbook, I (1956), pp. 11–17. *

W. Ross Ashby William Ross Ashby (6 September 1903 – 15 November 1972) was an English psychiatrist and a pioneer in cybernetics, the study of the science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things. His first name was ...

, "General systems theory as a new discipline," General Systems Yearbook, 3, (1958). *

Charles A. McClelland Charles ArmorThe Social Security Death Index spells his middle name Armour McClelland (April 25, 1917 – March 31, 2006) was an American political scientist, systems analyst and Professor International Relations at the San Francisco State Univ ...

, "Systems and History in International Relations," General Systems Yearbook, III (1958). The General Systems Yearbook also contains examples of the third kind of general systems activity — creating new laws and refining old. In 1998, the ''General Systems Yearbook'' was transitionedLane Tracy1, Tracy, L. and Wilby, J. (1998), Introduction to the special issue. Syst. Res., 15: 357–358. to be included each year as issue 5 of ''Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences''.

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