The Status of Requisite Variety
Abstract
Ashby's concept of requisite variety is not a generally applicable law but a limited tautology. Attempts to regard it as an empirical truth ignore a wide class of contradictory phenomena and may cause options to be missed in designing effective controllers. However, the concept does provide one strategy among others, which may be applicable in certain specific control situations.
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Citation
Dewhurst, D. (1991), "The Status of Requisite Variety", Kybernetes, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 61-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005883
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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