This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who
has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems
research. Researchers and practitioners from Japan and other countries
who have been influenced by Takahara have come together from far and
wide to contribute their major research masterpieces in the field of
systems research in the broadest sense.
While the roots of Takahara's systems research are in general systems
theory and systems control theory, he developed his research and
teaching in diverse directions such as management information science,
engineering, social simulation, and systems thinking. As a result, many
of the researchers and practitioners he supervised or influenced have
established their own positions and are now active around the world in a
wide range of systems research.
Volume II is a collection of their masterpieces or representative works
in the fields of systems management theory and practice.