ABSTRACT
The concept of systems can be traced back to the 17th Century when Rene Descartes (1596-1650) noticed the interrelationship among scientific disciplines as systems. Descartes developed analytic geometry that integrated algebra, geometry, and physics on the same mathematical foundation. Then, the general system notion was founded by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in the 1920s [von Bertalanffy, 1952].
