Brian R. Gaines

"The postulation of a principle of causality, “to every effect there is a cause,” has been a continuing central problem for philosophy . Its role as a source of contention in modern science is epitomiz…"

"s have long provided visual languages widely used in many different disciplines and application domains. Abstractly, they are sorted graphs visually represented as nodes having a type, name and conten…"

"Articles on Systems Theory by Brian R. Gaines"

"In a previous paper on progress in general systems research... I avoided the issue of defining a system. I noted that no definitions are satisfactory, and it seemed to me the essence of the subject ar…"

"Principle of causality is fundamental to human thinking, and it has been observed experimentally that this assumption leads to complex hypothesis formation by human subjects attempting to solve compar…"

"Tracking the individual learning curves of the major technologies that comprise the infrastructure of information technology provides a more detailed account of the present and future state-of-the art…"