Jifa Gu is a Chinese systems scientist, and Professor of Operations Research and Systems Engineering at the Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Biography
Gu graduated in Peking University majoring Computational mathematics, and got his Ph. D in USSR Academy of Sciences majoring Operations Research. He had been Professor in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology for four years. He is currently Professor of Operations Research and Systems Engineering at the Institute of Systems Science, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Part time Professor of Management school of Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, part time professor of Management School of Dalian University of Technology.
Gu is honorary editor of the journal Systems Research and Behavioral Science. [ [http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946258/grouphome/EditorialBoard.html Systems Research and Behavioral Science : Editorial Board] . Retrieved 3 June 2008.] He had been the President of Systems Engineering Society of China, President of International Federation for Systems Research.
Work
Gu's interests are inventory, optimization, Multi Criteria Decision Making, Systems engineering and Systems methodology. He pays much attention to the applications of Operations Research and Systems Engineering, which cover a lot of fields in energy , water resource, regional development, global change, Decision support system, various evaluations in projects and organizations, social system and tradition Chinese medicine.
His main research question "is to find the methods, which may synthesize the data, information, model, knowledge and the decision-maker's judgment and wisdom in solving the social and economic system problems using the human-machine cooperation?" [ [http://www.globalagoras.org/about_volunteers.html Volunteers : Jifa GU] 2003 conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). Retrieved 3 June 2008.]
Wuli-Shili-Renli System Approach
In 1994 he had proposed Wuli-Shili-Renli System Approach (WSR) with Dr. Zhu Zhichang in the center of Systems Studies of University of Hull.[ [http://www.isss.org/projects/tokyo_2007_featured_speakers ISSS Tokyo 2007 Featured Speakers] . Retrieved 3 June 2008.] These kind of systems approaches are converging into an intention to: [Zhichang ZHU, [http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/seminrya.html (SYSTEMS APPROACHES: WHERE THE EAST MEETS THE WEST?] . ISSS. The primer project. Retrieved 3 June 2008.] ]
* articulate a systems vision which is built upon a conception of differentiation and multiplicity,
* move the concept of systems study beyond the domination of technical dimension towards a holistic inquiry of relations in the world, between human and the world, and among human fellows,
* pursue synergy among various approaches and inquiring systems, emphases human values and relations, and stand on each own cultural tradition while open to 'alien' ones.The Wuli-Shili-Renli Approach (WSR) of Gu and Zhu is an Oriental systems approach, about the structure of qualitative decisionmaking. The approach is derived from an Oriental systems methodology, and is concerned with three domains of inquiry:
* "wuli" (material and technical),
* "shili" (cognitive and psychological) and
* "renli" (social and political). WSR suggests that it is useful to see real world projects as conditioned by a differentiable whole, i.e., the interplay among "wuli", relations within the world, "shili" relations between the self and the world, and "renli", relations between the self and others. [Cathal M. Brugha (1998)."Considering WSR in The Context Of Nomology, A Generic Meta Model For Systems Studies".In: the 3rd International Conference on Systems Science and Systems Engineering (ICSSSE), Beijing. A Generic Meta Model For Systems Studies.]
Publications
Gu has published 200 papers and more than 30 books and proceedings. A selection:
* 1995. "Multiple Criteria Decision Making"
* 2000. "Dealing with Human Relations in Chinese System Practice". With Gerald Midgley and David Campbell.
* 2000. "A Study on System Science and Engineering.". With Guozhi Xu and Hongan Che. Shanghai: Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press.
* 2005. "IFSR 2005 - The New Roles of Systems Sciences for a Knowledge-based Society, Kobe 2005". Edited with Gerhard Chroust. Jaist Press, Komatsu, Japan.
* 2006. "Towards knowledge synthesis and creation". With Yoshiteru Nakamori, Zhongtuo Wang and Xijin Tang.
;Articles:
* 2005. "Meta-synthesis approach to complex system modeling". With Xijin Tang. In: "European Journal of Operational Research" 166(3): 597-614.
* 2007. "Exploring Computational Scheme of Complex Problem Solving Based on Meta-Synthesis Approach". With Yijun Liu and Wenyuan Niu. In: "International Conference on Computational Science" (4) 2007: 9-17
* 2007. "Debating and Creativity Support". With Andrzej P. Wierzbicki. In: "Creative Environments" 2007: 127-154
;About his work:
* Gerald Midgley and Jennifer Wilby (2000). "Systems Practice in China: New Developments and Cross-Cultural Collaborations". In: "Systemic Practice and Action Research" Vol 13, Nr 1. Febr 2000. pp. 3-9.
References
External links
* [http://isss.org/conferences/tokyo2007/20070807-isss-1100-gu.pdf "Systems methodologies. From Hard to Soft. From West to East"] ISSS Presentation 2007.
* [http://ercim-news.ercim.org/content/view/127/221/ 25 Years of the IFSR: A Milestone in the Systems Sciences] by Gerhard Chroust.
