THE ARCHITECTURE OF HIERARCHY

Abstract

Hierarchy is a concept which has been in use in General System Theory since Bertalanffy. Even though isolated principles of hierarchy exist, an integrated concept of hierarchy is needed covering the various aspects of hierarchy both for descriptive (“what viable systems look like”) and normative (“what artificial systems should look like”) purposes. Tentative hints (control hierarchy, computer hierarchy) are given in order to show what artificial systems designed according to the hierarchy of the Theorem of Hierarchy would look like. Connections to hierarchical restructuring and to the hemisphere concepts are discussed.

Citation

SCHOLZ, C. (1982), "THE ARCHITECTURE OF HIERARCHY", Kybernetes, Vol. 11 No. 3, pp. 175-181. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005618