Systems studies and organization of knowledge

The integration processes in science stimulate the emergence of knowledge tools that in special areas could provide for the formation of an integrative view of a complex object (or a problem) to be studied in order to facilitate its practical application. The interdisciplinary synthesis requires organization of knowledge. Of late the solution of this problem is increasingly associated with the cognitive ability of the systems approach. In a number of new tasks including research into global problematique the systems methodology may serve as a vehicle of organization of various types of knowledge—empirical and theoretical, formalize and nonformalized. as well as of those fragments of knowledge reflecting researchers' personal attitudes and value orientations. The knowledge organized in this way does not necessarily lake the form of theory. Despite this, it can effectively perform the function of an instrument in the solution of a specific problem or a complex of problems.