?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4216%2F&rft.title=System+Identification.+Paper+Presented+on+IIASA's+20th+Anniversary&rft.creator=Deistler%2C+M.&rft.creator=Valyi%2C+I.&rft.description=IIASA+celebrated+its+twentieth+anniversary+on+May+12-13+with+its+fourth+general+conference%2C+IIASA+'92%3A+An+International+Conference+on+the+Challenges+to+Systems+Analysis+in+the+Nineties+and+Beyond.+The+conference+focused+on+the+relations+between+environment+and+development+and+on+studies+that+integrate+the+methods+and+findings+of+several+disciplines.+The+role+of+systems+analysis%2C+a+method+especially+suited+to+taking+account+of+the+linkages+between+phenomena+and+of+the+hierarchical+organization+of+the+natural+and+social+world%2C+was+also+assessed%2C+taking+account+of+the+implications+this+has+for+IIASA's+research+approach+and+activities.+%0A%0AThis+paper+is+one+of+six+IIASA+Collaborative+Papers+published+as+part+of+the+report+on+the+conference%2C+an+earlier+instalment+of+which+was+Science+and+Sustainability%2C+published+in+1992.+%0A%0AThe+term+%22identification%22+came+into+use+by+economists+in+the+late+1920s%2C+but+the+general+idea+has+existed+at+least+as+long+as+the+use+of+mathematics+in+science%2C+and+is+applicable+to+natural+as+well+as+social+phenomena.+Identification+is+finding+the+underlying+structure+that+generated+the+observed+data.+In+fact+we+never+find+the+structure+itself%2C+but+at+best+a+model+that+is+uniquely+capable+of+doing+what+the+structure+does.+%0A%0AUsually+identification+is+sought+by+solving+for+the+values+of+parameters+in+a+given+set+of+equations+--+often+linear+equations.+Professor+Deistler+would+broaden+the+search+beyond+finding+the+right+coefficients+in+a+set+of+linear+equations%3B+his+method+permits+the+use+of+intuition+as+well+as+fitting+to+find+the+most+likely+model.&rft.publisher=CP-94-005&rft.date=1994-04&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4216%2F1%2FCP-94-005.pdf&rft.identifier=++Deistler%2C+M.+%26+Valyi%2C+I.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F2471.html%3E++(1994).++System+Identification.+Paper+Presented+on+IIASA's+20th+Anniversary.+++IIASA+Collaborative+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+CP-94-005+++++