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

• Pubblicazione: Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.018
• Soggetto topico: Cybernetics; Systems engineering
• Altri autori: ScottBernard
• 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.: 9910828966503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II