systems analysis

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The scientific analysis of systems, and the interactions within them.

(computing) A range of techniques used especially in commercial computing in which the needs of a company or its staff are analysed and translated into a technical description of the necessary software - which is then created by programmers.

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Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis. Lawrence Summers

Another view sees systems analysis as a problem-solving technique that decomposes a system into its component pieces for the purpose of the studying how well those component parts work and interact to accomplish their purpose. Source: Internet

Information technology The development of a computer-based information system includes a systems analysis phase. Source: Internet

Parsons' use of social systems analysis based on the AGIL scheme was established in his work Economy and Society (with N. Smelser, 1956) and has prevailed in all his work ever since. Source: Internet

Practitioners Practitioners of systems analysis are often called up to dissect systems that have grown haphazardly to determine the current components of the system. Source: Internet

Unobservable poles are not present in the transfer function realization of a state-space representation, which is why sometimes the latter is preferred in dynamical systems analysis. Source: Internet

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