Developing second order cybernetics [[electronic resource] /] / Guest editor Dr. Bernard Scott
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| Titolo: |
Developing second order cybernetics [[electronic resource] /] / Guest editor Dr. Bernard Scott
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| Pubblicazione: | Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 301.018 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cybernetics |
| Systems engineering | |
| Altri autori: |
ScottBernard
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Developing second order cybernetics |
| ISBN: | 1-280-51442-6 |
| 9786610514427 | |
| 1-84544-179-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783290103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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