The magic ring : systems thinking approach to control systems / / Piero Mella

• Autore: Mella Piero
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (875 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 003.5
• Soggetto topico: Control theory; System theory; Teoria de control; Teoria de sistemes
• Soggetto genere / forma: Llibres electrònics
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Discovering the "Ring" -- Chapter 1: The Language of Systems Thinking for Control Systems -- 1.1 The Sixth Discipline: The Discipline of Control Systems -- 1.2 The Fifth Discipline: The Five Basic Rules of Systems Thinking -- 1.3 The Construction of Models Based on Systems Thinking: The Rings -- 1.4 From Systems Thinking to System Dynamics: A Simulation of a Dynamic System -- 1.5 Two Fundamental Laws of Systems Thinking -- 1.6 Systems Archetypes: Three Relevant Structures of Human Behavior-The Archetypes of the Three Myopias -- 1.7 Complementary Material -- 1.7.1 Reinforcing Loop: Arms Escalation -- 1.7.2 Reinforcing Loops: Virus Explosion -- 1.7.3 Multiple Loops: The Law of Accelerating Returns -- 1.7.4 The General Law of Dynamic Instability -- 1.7.5 The Law of Dynamic Instability: Richardson's Model -- 1.7.6 The Law of Dynamic Instability: Prey-Predator Populations -- 1.7.7 The Law of Dynamic Instability: Counteracting the Spread of a Virus -- 1.7.8 Senge's Archetypes List Expanded -- 1.7.9 The "Six" Disciplines of Learning Organizations -- 1.8 Summary -- Chapter 2: The Ring: The General Structure of Control Systems -- 2.1 The Control Process -- 2.2 The Logical Structure of Control Systems in the Language of Systems Thinking -- 2.3 The Ring in Action: The Heuristic Model of a Control System -- 2.4 Some Technical Notes -- 2.5 Continuous Single-Lever Control System Without Delays -- 2.6 Discrete Single-Lever Control System Without Delay -- 2.7 Control System with On-Off Lever -- 2.8 Continuous Single-Lever Control System with Delay -- 2.9 The Technical Structure of a Single-Lever Control System: The Chain of Control -- 2.10 Management and Governance of the Control System. ; 2.11 Design and Realization of the Control System -- 2.12 Delays and Disturbances in the Control: Variants of the Control Model -- 2.13 Strengthening and Precision of Control Systems -- 2.14 Connections and Interferences Among Single-Lever Control Systems -- 2.15 Areas of Application of the General Model -- 2.16 Complementary Material -- 2.16.1 Simulation Tools -- 2.16.2 Control of an Elevator -- 2.16.3 Searching for a Street, a Page, and a Word -- 2.16.4 The Trajectories of a Car and a Boat -- 2.16.5 Shower with Two Delays -- 2.16.6 Direct and Inverse Control -- 2.16.7 Simulation of an On-Off System: The Hot and Cold Air Conditioner -- 2.16.8 Simulation of Two Interfering Showers Using Powersim -- 2.16.9 Feedforward Control -- 2.16.10 The Engineering Definition of Control Systems -- 2.16.11 An Analytical Appendix: The Optimal Value of the Lever and the Optimal Control Period in Non-symmetrical Systems -- 2.17 Summary -- Chapter 3: The Ring Variety: A Basic Typology -- 3.1 Manual and Automatic Control Systems: Cybernetic Systems -- 3.2 Quantitative and Qualitative Control Systems: Attainment and Recognition Control Systems -- 3.3 Steering and Halt Control Systems -- 3.4 Fixed- and Variable-Objective Systems (or Systems of "Pursuit") -- 3.5 Collision, Anticollision, and Alignment Systems -- 3.6 Tendential and Combinatory Control Systems -- 3.7 Parallel or Serial Connections -- 3.8 Holarchies of Control Systems -- 3.9 Complementary Material -- 3.9.1 Some Well-Known Cybernetic Systems -- 3.9.2 Halt Control Systems -- 3.9.3 Biometric Systems of Recognition and Identification -- 3.9.4 Explorative Systems -- 3.9.5 Looking Up a Word in the Dictionary -- 3.9.6 Achilles and the Tortoise: Zeno's Paradox -- 3.9.7 Serial Systems: The Oven and the Boiler. ; 3.9.8 Qualitative Control Systems: Procedure to Determine the States of Variety of the Qualitative Variables -- 3.10 Summary -- Chapter 4: The Ring Completed: Multilever and Multiobjective Control Systems -- 4.1 Dual-Lever Control System with Mutually Dependent Levers -- 4.2 Dual-Lever Control System with Independent Levers: Control Strategy -- 4.3 Impulse Control Systems -- 4.4 Multilever Control Systems -- 4.5 Multilayer Control Systems -- 4.6 Multiobjective Control Systems and Control Policies -- 4.7 Optimal Strategies and Policies: Two General Preference Models -- 4.8 Complementary Material -- 4.8.1 Flying in a Hot Air Balloon -- 4.8.2 Submerging in a Submarine -- 4.8.3 A Multilever System: Mix of N Components -- 4.8.4 Control of a Mobile Platform -- 4.8.5 Industrial Robots and Movement Systems -- 4.8.6 Focusing -- 4.8.7 Demand, Supply, and Price: Dual-Objective Control System -- 4.8.8 Ordering of the Objectives to Define Control Policy: The Direct Comparison Procedure -- 4.8.9 The Standard Gamble Method -- 4.9 Summary -- Chapter 5: The Ring: Observation and Design -- 5.1 How to Recognize or Design the Logical Structure of a Control System -- 5.2 Symptomatic and Structural Control -- 5.3 Effectiveness and Efficiency of Control Systems -- 5.4 Strengtheners, Turbos, and Multilevers -- 5.5 Risk of Failure of the Control Process Due to Structural Causes -- 5.6 Risks of Failure of the Control Process Due to some Characteristics of the Variables to be Controlled -- 5.7 Risks of Failure of the Control Process Due to Improper Levers: "Shifting the Burden" archetype -- 5.8 Pathologies of Control: Discouragement, Insatiability, Persistence, and Underestimation -- 5.9 Problem Solving and Control Systems -- 5.10 Problem Solving and the Leverage Effect -- 5.11 The Principles of Systems Thinking Applied to Problem Solving -- 5.12 Complementary Material. ; 5.12.1 Multicriteria Decision-Making -- 5.13 Summary -- Part II: The Magic of the Ring -- Chapter 6: The Magic Ring in Action: Individuals -- 6.1 Magic Rings Operating on a Wonderful Day -- 6.2 Rings Operating in the Domestic Environment -- 6.3 Overhead Rings in the External Microenvironment -- 6.4 Rings Acting in the External Macro Environment -- 6.5 Planetary Rings: "Gaia" and Daisyworld -- 6.6 Control System for Global Warming: The Myopia Archetypes in Action -- 6.7 Rings Acting on Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- 6.8 Rings Acting on the Human Body -- 6.9 Control Systems for Survival as Psychophysical Entities -- 6.10 Rings That Regulate Biological Clocks -- 6.11 Complementary Material -- 6.11.1 The Water Cycle -- 6.11.2 Daisyworld Dynamics -- 6.12 Summary -- Chapter 7: The Magic Ring in Action: Social Environment and Sustainability -- 7.1 Social Environment -- 7.2 The Rings Regulating Social Systems: The Control of Coexistence -- 7.3 Rings That Maintain Autopoiesis in Social Systems -- 7.4 Rings That Regulate Some Fundamental Variables in Social Systems -- 7.5 Rings Within Collectivities as Combinatory Systems -- 7.6 The Control of Combinatory Systems -- 7.7 Sustainability of Social Behavior, Myopia Archetypes in Action, Population Growth, and Commons Depletion -- 7.8 Rings Operating in Social Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) -- 7.9 Change Management in a Complex World: The PSC Model -- 7.10 Complementary Material -- 7.10.1 Models and Classes of Combinatory Systems -- 7.10.2 The Heuristic Models Revealing the Modus Operandi of Some Relevant Social Phenomena Following the Combinatory Systems Model -- 7.10.3 The Combinatory Automaton to Simulate the Buzzing in an Indoor Locale -- 7.10.4 Two Modern Tragedies of the Commons -- 7.10.5 The PSC Model Applied to Stereotypes and Gender Discrimination -- 7.11 Summary. ; Chapter 8: The Magic Ring in Action: The Biological Environment -- 8.1 Magic Rings in the Macro Biological Environment -- 8.2 Magic Rings That Regulate the Dynamics of Populations -- 8.3 Dynamics of a Population Without Growth Limits -- 8.4 Dynamics of a Population with Limits to Its Available Resources: Malthusian Dynamics -- 8.5 Dynamics of Interacting Populations Forming a Trophic Food Chain: Volterra-Lotka Model -- 8.6 Natural Endogenous and Artificial External Controls of Two Interacting Populations -- 8.7 Magic Rings That Regulate the Dynamics of Three or More Populations Comprising an Ecosystem -- 8.8 Qualitative Dynamics of Populations-Evolution: The Framework -- 8.9 Magic Rings That Regulate the Qualitative Dynamics of Populations Over Time -- 8.10 Combinatory Systems as a Tool for Simulating the Dynamics Regarding the Spread of a Favorable Mutation -- 8.11 Qualitative Dynamics Interacting with Quantitative Dynamics -- 8.12 Evolution of Non-biological "Species" -- 8.13 Evolution in Networks of Organizations: Production Networks -- 8.14 The Rules of Selfish Behavior of Nodes (Modules) in Production Networks: Evolutionary Qualitative Dynamics of Nodes -- 8.15 The Laws of Production Networks -- 8.16 Complementary Material -- 8.16.1 The Nodes (Modules) Forming the Production Networks -- 8.16.2 The Genesis of Production Networks -- 8.16.3 The Evolution of Production Networks: The Ghost in the Production Machine -- 8.17 Summary -- Chapter 9: The Magic Ring in Action: Organizations -- 9.1 Rings That Allow Organizations to Exist as Autopoietic, Homeostatic, and Teleonomic Social Systems -- 9.2 Viable Systems View -- 9.3 Organizations as Efficient Systems of Transformation -- 9.4 From MOEST to Management Control and Performance Management -- 9.5 The Rings in Macro Management Control: The Objectives of the Strategic Rings: EVF and EVA. ; 9.6 The Objectives of the Operational Rings: Roe* and Roi*.
• Titolo autorizzato: The magic ring
• ISBN: 3-030-64194-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910484368503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Systems Thinking