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Autore |
Espejo Raul |
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Tribute to Stafford Beer [[electronic resource] /] / Raul Espejo |
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Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, 2004 |
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1-280-51579-1 |
9786610515790 |
1-84544-390-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Collana |
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Kybernetes. no. 3/4 ; ; 33 |
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Cybernetics |
Systems engineering |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Editorial advisory board; Abstracts; Preface; Foreword; PART I; The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics; Sequences of failure in complex socio-technical systems; The market economy unchecked; Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry; PART II; City planning; The role of information and models in regulating complex commercial systems; A self-organizing network for the systems community; PART III; Observing experiences with the VSM; Viability versus tribalism; Observations on the development of cybernetic ideas in Colombia; Heinz and Stafford; PART IV |
The footprint of complexity: the embodiment of social systemsA Latino American Requiem for Stafford Beer; Fighting for science; Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy; PART V; Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning; World in Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come; Knowing Norbert; Man in a garrulous silence; Ten pints of Beer; A filigree friendship; What is cybernetics? |
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This paper explores the history of Stafford Beer's work in management cybernetics, from his early conception and simulation of an adaptive automatic factory and associated experimentation in biological computing, through the development of the Viable System Model and the Team Syntegrity technique for discussion and planning. It also |
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