PISTEMOLOGICAL CATEGORIES OF SYSTEMS: An Overview and Mathematical Formulation

Abstract

Epistemological categories of systems that form the kernel of the general systems problem solver (GSPS) are overviewed and formulated mathematically, using standard notions of category theory. In addition, the history of the GSPS is briefly summarized

INDEX TERMS:

• General systems problem solver (GSPS)
• epistemological systems hierarchy
• source system
• image system
• data system
• generative system
• behavior system
• state-transition system
• structure system
• metasystem
• category theory