Kybernetes: Volume 17 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

During the last two years the many conferences and congresses involving cybernetics have focused on particular research and development themes. Whether the venue was at Vienna …

Holism and the Frou‐Frou Slander

Stafford Beer

A fairly personal discussion of cybernetics and its future. The systems approach has yet to show its potency and full use. Cybernetics is the science of the regulation of large…

Explanation, Prediction, Problem‐Solving and Decision‐Making in Social Systems

P.N. Rastogi

Inferences concerning analysis, explanation, prediction, problem‐solving, policy formulation and decision‐making are systematically derived by means of a social cybernetic…

Systems, Cybernetics and Managerial Information Systems

Fenton F. Robb

The impact of technological change on the system dynamics of managerial organisations is considered. A forecast is made that, in order to preserve the unity of the organisation, a…

A General Approach for Complex Systems

G. Adomian

A new unique methodology for accurate and realistic solution of dynamical systems is presented which does not require linearisation and restrictive “smallness” assumptions. It has…

Autopoiesis, Self‐organisation and Symbolic Interactionism: Some Convergences

Patrick Baert, Jan De Schampheleire

Attention is paid to the similarities between pragmatic philosophy and symbolic interactionism on the one hand, and radical constructive epistemologies on the other. Referring to…