1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783290103321

Titolo

Developing second order cybernetics [[electronic resource] /] / Guest editor Dr. Bernard Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004

ISBN

1-280-51442-6

9786610514427

1-84544-179-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Collana

Kybernetes: the international journal of systems & cybernetics ; ; v.33, no. 9/10

Altri autori (Persone)

ScottBernard

Disciplina

301.018

Soggetti

Cybernetics

Systems engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abstracts and Keywords; Preface; Guest Editor's introduction; Second-order cybernetics; The purpose of second-order cybernetics; Reminiscences of McCulloch and Pitts and some others; Questions about constructivism; Remarks on the foundations of cybernetics and cognitive science; Self-organisation as quality control in inquiry; Essential structure in physical observation; Axioms from interactions of actors theory; Cognitive and neuropsychological basis for quantum mechanics; Approximation of multiple integrals by simple integrals involving periodic functions

kth-order Markov chain-based approximation of the Shannon entropy of Gaussian photon-counting processesA cybernetical analysis of entities in multilevel systems; Asymptotic behaviour and statistical applications of weighted (h,p)-divergences; Twenty-first century; Book reviews; News, conferences and technical reports; Special announcements

Sommario/riassunto

Special double issue: developing second order cybernetics - a collection of papers from the UK Cybernetics Society Guest Editor: Bernard Scott  This special double issue is based on the presentations made at a conference with the theme "Second Order Cybernetics (SOC)", which had been organised by the UK Cybernetics Society in London in



2002.Previously published in: International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics, Volume 33, Number 9/10, 2004

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689524203321

Titolo

Homeland security : tracking international students in higher education : progress and issues since 9/11 : hearing before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness and the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 24, 20002

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 146 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Students, Foreign - United States - Identification

Student passports - United States

Admission of nonimmigrants - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia