Systems Research II: Essays in Honor of Yasuhiko Takahara on Systems Management Theory and Practice

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, h...