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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Biases in the Process of Designing a System -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Mesarovic and Takahara's General Systems Theory -- 1.2. Systems Engineering -- 1.3. Klir's Architecture of Systems Problem Solving -- 1.4. Van Gigch's Metamodeling -- 1.5. Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems -- 1.6. Jackson's Systems Paradigms -- 1.7. Summary of the Selected Approaches to System Design -- 2. Some Basic Notions and Some Immediate Consequences -- 2.1. Definition of Core Notions -- 2.2. Some Consequences Derived from the Definition of Core Notions -- 3. Outline of the Developed Approach to System Design -- 4. The Core Context for System Design -- 5. The Material Base for System Design -- 5.1. The Material Needs for System Design -- 5.2. The Sources of the Material Base for the System Design -- 6. The Goal-Setting Process -- 6.1. The Options for Goal-Setting -- 6.2. Contexts of Goal-Setting and Resulting Biases Influencing the Design Process -- 6.3. Goal-Setting -- 6.4. Summary: The Goal-Setting Process -- 7. The Prerequisites of System Design -- 7.1. A Priori Knowledge -- 7.2. From A Priori Knowledge to Preliminary Knowledge -- 7.3. The Preliminary Knowledge of the System Designer and Its Necessary Scope -- 8. The Core Process of Designing a System: From the Prerequisites and Goal-Values via Preliminary Knowledge to the Final Design -- 8.1. The Core Process of System Design: From Elements and Relations via Subsystems to a Complete System Design -- 8.1.1. Assumptions -- 8.1.2. Selecting Elements and Relations -- 8.1.3. Intermediate Evaluation -- 8.2. From a Complete Design to the Final Design or When Is a System Design 'Good Enough'? -- 8.3. A Byproduct: An Increase in the Preliminary Knowledge of the System Designer -- 8.4. Redesigning a System -- 8.5. Summary of the Core Design Process