Reconnaissance

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><U>About Us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id16.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Retropective"><U>Retrospective</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Coming Soon"><U>Coming Soon</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Home Systems"><U>Lewis Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For Future Reference"><U>For Future Reference</U></A></div> <div> Contact Us</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Lewis Works</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Works"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Consulting"><U>Consulting</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Strategy"><U>Strategy</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tactical Operations"><U>Tactical Operations</U></A>   |   <B>Reconnaissance</B>   |   <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Operational Systems"><U>Operational Systems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Troubleshooting"><U>Troubleshooting</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Control Structures"><U>Control Structures</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cybernetic Systems"><U>Cybernetic Systems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mediational Systems"><U>Mediational Systems</U></A></div> <div> Reconnaissance</div> <bR> <div> Reconnaissance may be defined as preliminary information gathering, either through observation, interaction or experimentation, that is anticipatory to the development of research and resolution strategies. Reconnaissance into real world situations and contexts provides an informational basis for the formulation of plans and implementation of systems. Initial exploration of knowledge domains as well as real world behavioral and social realities is a prerequisite to the successful implementation of any kind of metasystemic framework.</div> <bR> <div> Reconnaissance may also involve setting up both natural and controled experiments, or in deliberately manipulating variables in complex situations, in order to learn about systems and the patterns of such systems.</div> <bR> <div> Reconnaissance is an on-going effort and requires also the implementation of systems capable of monitoring critical variables, either continuously, or regularly on a periodic or discontinuous basis. Sampling for statistical designs is a means of reconnoitering real world problem sets or populations in order to get a profile of the distribution of significant variables.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <p align="center"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) </script> <script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript"> s=screen.width;v=navigator.appName if (v != "Netscape") {c=screen.colorDepth} else {c=screen.pixelDepth} j=navigator.javaEnabled() </script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function pr(n) {document.write(n,"\n");} NS2Ch=0 if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2") {NS2Ch=1} if (NS2Ch == 0) { r="&size="+s+"&colors="+c+"&referer="+f+"&java="+j+"" pr("<A HREF=\"http://www.TheCounter.com\" TARGET=\"_top\"><IMG"+ " BORDER=0 SRC=\"http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383"+r+"\"><\/A>")} </script> <NOSCRIPT> <a HREF="http://www.TheCounter.com" TARGET="_top"><img SRC="http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383" ALT="TC" BORDER="0" width="88" height="31"></a> </NOSCRIPT>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>