LEADER 03061nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910783290103321 005 20230617020324.0 010 $a1-280-51442-6 010 $a9786610514427 010 $a1-84544-179-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000018362 035 $a(EBL)231830 035 $a(OCoLC)61363480 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000465450 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11283718 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000465450 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10439067 035 $a(PQKB)10141287 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC231830 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL231830 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10069032 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL51442 035 $a(OCoLC)133160210 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000018362 100 $a20000815d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDeveloping second order cybernetics$b[electronic resource] /$fGuest editor Dr. Bernard Scott 210 $aBradford, England $cEmerald Group Publishing$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (205 p.) 225 0 $aKybernetes: the international journal of systems & cybernetics ;$vv.33, no. 9/10 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84544-015-3 327 $aContents; 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 327 $akth-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 330 $aSpecial 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 606 $aCybernetics 606 $aSystems engineering 615 0$aCybernetics. 615 0$aSystems engineering. 676 $a301.018 701 $aScott$b Bernard$0964388 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783290103321 996 $aDeveloping second order cybernetics$93757347 997 $aUNINA