Prague, Czech Republic

Transportation and Logistic System

Dopravní logistika

Language: Czech Studies in Czech
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
University website: www.cvut.cz
Years of study: 3
System
A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming an integrated whole. Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
System
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1911) Principles of Scientific Management. p. 2.
System
When a system is brought before the public, professing to be new, and claiming to be considered as peculiarly useful, it is incumbent on those who introduce it, to show in what respects it is original, and why it is an improvement.
Emma Willard (1838). A system of universal geography on the principles of comparison and classification.
System
A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.
Lizzie Susan Stebbing (1930) A modern introduction to logic. p. 198.
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