Mihajlo D. Mesarovic

Mihajlo D. Mesarovic (1928), (Serbian: Mihajlo D. Mesarović, Serbian Cyrillic: Михајло Д. Месаровић) is a Yugoslavian scientist, who is a professor of Systems Engineering and Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University. Mesarovic has been a pioneer in the field of systems theory, he was UNESCO Scientific Advisor on Global change and also a member of the Club of Rome.

Biography

Mihajlo D. Mesarovic was born in Yugoslavia in 1928. He was awarded the M.S. from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1951. In 1955 he received a Ph.D. in Technical sciences from the University of Belgrade. In 1958 he became a Sloane Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT.

Mesarovic held academic positions at University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia form 1954 to 1958. He was associate Professor at CWRU from 1959 to 1964 and professor from 1964 to 1978. In that time he was head of the Systems Engineering Group 1965-68, head of the Systems Engineering Department 1968-72 and director of the Systems Research Center 1968-78. Starting 1978, Prof. Mesarovic has been the Cady Staley Professor of Systems Engineering and Mathematics. One of his students was Roger W. Brockett.

He has lectured in more than 60 countries, advised government officials on a variety of issues, consulted for international organizations, and published widely.^[1] He was also the founder of the 'Mathematical Theory of General Systems' Journal, Springer Verlag.

In 1999, he was appointed a Scientific Advisor on Global Change by Federico Mayor, Director-General of the UNESCO. In that role, Mesarovic traveled to UNESCO's headquarters in Paris and advised the director general's office on issues such as climate change, economics, population, technology transfer, and the education of women in developing countries.^[2]

In 2003 he was awarded the Hovorka Prize from Case Western Reserve University for exceptional achievements.^[1] In 2005 he was awarded the USA Club of Rome Lifetime Achievement Award at the United Nations.

Work

His research interests include the areas and topics like complexity, complex systems theory, global change and sustainable human development, hierarchical systems, large-scale systems theory, mathematical theory of general systems, multi-level systems, systems biology, and world and regional modeling. In the field of mathematics he is considered to be founder of:

• Mathematical theory of coordination
• Multi-level Hierarchical Systems Developer,
• Negotiation Support Software System

See also

Systems science portal

• Club of Rome
• Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations
• Systems biology
• Systems engineering
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Publications

Mesarovic published several books and numerous articles.^[3] A selection:

• 1960. Multi-variable Control Systems. MIT Press.
• 1962. General Systems Theory and Systems Research Contrasting Conceptions of Systems Science. (ed.) Proceedings from the Second System Symposium.
• 1964. Foundations for a General Systems Theory. (ed.)
• 1968. Systems Theory and Biology. (ed.). Springer Verlag.
• 1970. Non-Numerical Problem Solving. with R. Banerji (ed.), Springer Verlag, 1970.
• 1970. Theory of Multi-level Hierarchical Systems. With D. Macko and Yasuhiko Takahara. Academic Press.
• 1972. Mathematical Theory of General Systems. With Y. Takahara. Academic Press.
• 1972. Organization Structure: Cybernetic Systems Foundation. IFSR Int’l. Series on Systems Science and Engineering, Vol. 22. Kluwer, Academic Publishers.
• 1972. Systems Approach and the City. Edited with Arnold Reisman. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
• 1974. Mankind at the Turning Point. With Eduard Pestel. Dutton, Second Report to the Club of Rome.
• 1975. General Systems Theory: Mathematical Foundations. With Yasuhiko Takaraha.
• 1994. Abstract Systems Theory, Springer

Articles:

• 1996. "Cybernetics of global change: human dimension and managing of complexity". With David L. McGinnis and A. West Dalton. UNESCO MOST policy papers 3, 43 p.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Case engineering professor wins Hovorka Prize for exceptional achievements, Case Western Reserve University News center, 2004.
2. ^ Mesarovic named UNESCO scientific adviser, Posted 11/6/97
3. ^ Mihajlo D. Mesarovic Homepage at Case Western Reserve University, retrieved 24 August 2007

External links

• Homepage at Case Western Reserve University.
• Hovorka Prize for exceptional achievements for Mihajlo D. Mesarovic, 2005.

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