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From a far-sighted viewpoint for a nonlinear non-equilibrium system including the reservoirs a principle of maximum increasing rate of the total entropy is proposed to describe non-equilibrium steady as well as non-steady phenomena. The conditions for the validity of this postulate are discussed and the principle was compared with Prigogine's general evolution criterion and minimum excess entropy production principle.
Yasuji Sawada (Wed,) studied this question.