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Index of Cybernetics Glossary

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Date: August 1984

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The following list of terms with linked definitions is a hypertext version of the Glossary on Cybernetics and Systems Theory, developed as a working document by the American Society for Cybernetics. The Glossary is maintained by Stuart Umpleby (UMPLEBY@gwuvm.gwu.edu) and Jixuan Hu (JIXUANHU@gwuvm.gwu.edu). It was converted to HTML hypertext by Francis Heylighen. The Glossary is also available as a single file through ftp.

Disclaimer: Copyright on these definitions remains with the original publishers or authors from whose work they are quoted (the name of the author is given in the definition; the exact references can be found at the end of this index). None of the people who helped produce this Glossary derives any income from it. It is produced merely as a service to the Cybernetics and Systems community. No parts of this Glossary should be further published, edited or sold without permission from the original copyright holders.

REFERENCES


Ackoff, Russell.  Redesigning the Future. Wiley, 1974.

Arbib, Michael A. Computers and the Cybernetic Society. Academic
     Press, l977.

Ashby, W.Ross. (edited by Roger C. Conant). Mechanisms of
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Ashby, W. Ross. Design for a Brain. Second Edition, Chapman and
     Hall, l960.

Ashby, W. Ross. An Introduction to Cybernetics. Chapman and Hall,
     l956.

Beer, Stafford. Platform for Change. Wiley, 1975.

Bono, Edward. Wordpower:  An Illustrated Dictionary of Vital
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Buckley, W. (ed).  Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral
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Gawthrop, Louis C.  The Administrative Process and Democratic
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Hampden-Turner, Charles.  Maps of the Mind. Macmillan, 1981.

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Lefebvre, Vladimir.  Algebra of Conscience. Reidel, 1982.

Linstone, Harold and Murray Turoff (eds).  The Delphi Method.
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Machol, Robert E. System Engineering Handbook. McGraw-Hill,
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Maturana, Humberto and Francisco Varela. Autopoiesis and
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Minsky, Marvin and Seymour Papert. Perceptrons. MIT Press, 1972.

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Prigogine, Ilya.  From Being to Becoming.  W.H. Freeman, 1980.

Prouty, Fletcher. The Secret Team.  Ballantine Books, 1973.

Ralston, Anthony (ed.). Encyclopedia of Computer Science and
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Riker, William.  The Theory of Political Coalitions. Yale
     University Press, 1962.

Sears and Zemansky. University Physics. Second Edition.
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Shannon, Claude and Warren Weaver. The Mathematical Theory of
     Communication. University of Illinois Press, l948.

Simon, Herbert.  The Shape of Automation. Harper, 1965.

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Von Bertalanffy, Ludwig. General System Theory. Braziller, 1968.

Von Foerster, Heinz. Observing Systems. Intersystems, 1981.

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Waddington, C.S.  The Ethical Animal. University of Chicago
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Weidner, Richard T. and Robert L. Sells. Elementary Modern
     Physics. Allyn and Bacon, 1960.

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