APPLICATION OF SYSTEM ENGINEERING PRINCIPLE TO THE COMPILATION OF THE ATLAS OF PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF CHINA
用系统工程原理认识《中国古地理图集》的编制

In this paper the author is to make a new attempt--analyzing thecompilation of the "Atlas of Paieogeography of China" in the theory of system of engineering. The author thinks that the engieering of compiling the Atlas is actually of system engineering, and we could regard the compiling work as a whole. The whole work consists of three branch sytstems, ie., designing, compiling, and plate making and printing. Each branch system can be further composed of some smaller parts. For example, the design system is divided into general project, compiling project for the paleogeographic contents and cartography project, and so on (see the compiling system chart of Atlas of the Paieogeography of China in the Chinese text). All these parts, although have different functions, they are interrelated and interact on each other, and are closely connected with their surroundings.In this system also exists the subsystem of transmission of information, which is formed in the course of compiling through using, and objective reality through the understanding of people, ft is the Atlas that shows and stores up the information of paleogeography. How the information can be transmitted and what characteristic it has been described in this paper.In order to realize the procedure of compiling the Atlas and transmitting paleogeographic information, the system must be put under control. For this purpose we have taken some measures and got a fairly good effect. All the details can be learned through reading the paper.