SATISFACTION PRINCIPLE IN MODELING BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS: Do biological systems optimize or satisfy?
MIHAJLO D. MESAROVIC
(Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.)
ROBERT ERLANDSON
(Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.)
DONALD MACKO
(Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.)
DAVID FLEMING
(Systems Research Center, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106, U.S.A.)
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Abstract
Satisfaction principle is introduced as a basis for explanation of the homeostatic behavior of biological organisms in changing environment. The principle is applied to explain the response of the eye‐tracking system which could not have been explained either by classical feedback approach or by using the optimization principle.
Citation
MESAROVIC, M.D., ERLANDSON, R., MACKO, D. and FLEMING, D. (1973), "SATISFACTION PRINCIPLE IN MODELING BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS: Do biological systems optimize or satisfy?", Kybernetes, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005324
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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