TY - JOUR AU - Lin, Kingkong PY - 2011/09/23 Y2 - 2024/03/19 TI - The All-in-One Model ∞ JF - Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2011, Hull, UK JA - ISSS-2010 VL - 55 IS - 1 SE - DO - UR - https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings55th/article/view/1651 SP - AB - <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 24.0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US">How to put all together is always a big question asked by systems science researchers. We have quite a few approaches to probe the question, and the best one of them is to use models. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 24.0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">The purpose of this paper is to show that the All-in-One Model &infin; may be the simplest one. First of all, we have to inquire into the General Systems Theory(GST) or Theory of Everything(TOE). There drive us to the question whether there has the General Systems Model(GSM) or Model of Everything(MOE). </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 24.0pt; mso-char-indent-count: 2.0;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">It will be useful, to begin with, to make a distinction between three levels of models of theory. The three levels look like a upside-down triangle(</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;新細明體&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">▽</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">). The most upper level is full of every kind of models of disciplinary theory, for example, Easton&rsquo;s politics system model. The middle level is the models of multi-disciplinary theory, or</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> trans-disciplinary theory. Parsons&rsquo;s social systems model, Holling&rsquo;s adaptive cycle model and </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">CAS(Complex adaptive Systems) model</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> are notable examples. The </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">lowest</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> level is the model of </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">General Systems Theory, or Theory of Everything. Miller&rsquo;s living system mode, Wilber&rsquo;s AQAL model and </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; color: black; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;" lang="EN-US">Ritzer's Integration Model are the illustrations of the same point.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>There are considerable evidences to prove that the All-in-One Model &infin; may be the simplest one in the lowest level. This article choses some representativeness of models of theory from the three levels, like Cybernetics, Game theory, Systems dynamics, Beer&rsquo;s VSM, Checkland&rsquo;s SSM, Flood and Jackson&rsquo;s TSI, etc., and uses the All-in-One model &infin; to explain them and prove the generative appliance to all models of theory. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;</span></p> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">In the end of article, we propose that All-in-One m</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">odel </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">&infin; can be used widely in image search engine of www, and open a new method for image searching.</span> ER -