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Science of Goal Formulation [Library Binding]

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ISBN-10: 0891167358 | ISBN-13: 978-0891167358 | Publication Date: December 1, 1990 | Edition: 1

This work contains the proceedings of a meeting held by 18 American and Soviet scholars on the state of cybernetics and systems theory in their two countries. American interest focused on the observation of systems, whilst Soviet interest focused on mathematical modelling. The book opens with an examination of epistemology and conceptual difficulties between the two countries, goes on to look at the latest research in cybernetics and logic in artificial intelligence systems and concludes with a discussion of the management of complexity in the systems age and a comparison of the approaches of the two countries to models of international relations.

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Library Binding: 250 pages
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (December 1, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0891167358
ISBN-13: 978-0891167358
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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The earliest historical records we have of questions concerning knowledge and the activity of knowing are from the 6th century B.C. Read the first page

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possibilistic systems, slit light guides, philosophic systems principle, identifiability quotient, given overall system, reconstructability analysis, unbiased reconstruction, general contingency theory, reconstruction hypotheses, given structure system, underlying social organization, maximum entropy reconstruction, ergonomic knowledge, reconstruction hypothesis, innovation game, arms race model, join procedure, nuclear predicament, reconstruction family, partial recursive functions, soviet writings, human activity systems, probabilistic systems, enumerable sets, general systems theory

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New York, Soviet Union, United States, San Francisco, Systems Age, Nauka Publishers, Pergamon Press, General System Theory, North Holland, Beverly Hills, John Wiley, Academic Press, Adam Smith, Co-op Care, Englewood Cliffs, Fuzzy Sets Syst, James Woolsey, Mysl Publishers, Ross Ashby, Academy of Management Review, Academy of the National Economy, Machine Age, New Haven, Plenum Press, Politizdat Publishers

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Applied Systems and Cybernetics by Mexico) International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics (1980 : Acapulco on 5 pages
Introduction to Cybernetics (University Paperbacks) by William Ross Ashby on 4 pages
Living Systems by James Grier Miller on page 53, page 59, and page 191
The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action (Gifford Lectures 1929) by John Dewey on page 42, and page 47
Principles of Systems by Jay Wright Forrester on page 189, and page 243

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