The Dutch Systems Group was initiated by Albert Hanken and Gerard de Zeeuw[1] and others in 1970.
The activities of the Dutch Systems Group, according to de Zeeuw (2006), made an important contribution to the introduction of the area of systems studies in the Netherlands.
[2] Other early participant have been Felix Geyer, Henk Koppelaar, Ton de Leeuw and Geert Jan Olsder.
[3] During the 1970s the Dutch Systems Group published the refereed journal Systemica, edited by Ranulph Glanville and Gerard de Zeeuw.
This journal published "original papers in the field of general systems research, both of a mathematical and non-mathematical nature.