Kybernetes: Volume 17 Issue 1
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Contemporary Cybernetics
During the last two years the many conferences and congresses involving cybernetics have focused on particular research and development themes. Whether the venue was at Vienna …
Holism and the Frou‐Frou Slander
Stafford BeerA fairly personal discussion of cybernetics and its future. The systems approach has yet to show its potency and full use. Cybernetics is the science of the regulation of large…
Explanation, Prediction, Problem‐Solving and Decision‐Making in Social Systems
P.N. RastogiInferences concerning analysis, explanation, prediction, problem‐solving, policy formulation and decision‐making are systematically derived by means of a social cybernetic…
Systems, Cybernetics and Managerial Information Systems
Fenton F. RobbThe impact of technological change on the system dynamics of managerial organisations is considered. A forecast is made that, in order to preserve the unity of the organisation, a…
A General Approach for Complex Systems
G. AdomianA new unique methodology for accurate and realistic solution of dynamical systems is presented which does not require linearisation and restrictive “smallness” assumptions. It has…
Autopoiesis, Self‐organisation and Symbolic Interactionism: Some Convergences
Patrick Baert, Jan De SchampheleireAttention is paid to the similarities between pragmatic philosophy and symbolic interactionism on the one hand, and radical constructive epistemologies on the other. Referring to…
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0368-492Xe-ISSN:
1758-7883ISSN-L:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici