Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the two subjects, cybernetics and design, in order to establish and demonstrate a relationship between them. It is held that the two subjects can be considered complementary arms of each other. Design/methodology/approach – The two subjects are each characterised so that the author’s interpretation is explicit and those who know one subject but ...

pared, and the successive stages of implantation and placental formation in various mammals are compared with those in man. Although the authors have quite successfully attempted to keep the book as short as possible, they have succeeded in putting much of great value in it with the result that it can be highly recommended. No biological library is complete without a copy of this excellent acco...

The term \Cybernetics" was proposed by Norbert Wiener in 1948 39]. Derived from the Greek \kybernetes", or \steersman", it was deened as \the study of control and communication in the animal and machine". Over time, the meaning has been broadened substantially, and while many speciic senses persist, Cybernetics can be generally understood as the study of the abstract principles of organization ...

I. Historical Development of Cybernetics.......................................................1 A. Origins.....................................................................................1 B. Second Order Cybernetics............................................................2 C. Cybernetics Today.....................................................................4 II. Relational Concepts...

 Historically, the new science of cybernetics can be viewed as a potential outline of Heinz von Foerster’s vision of second-order cybernetics as the science of observing systems or, alternatively, of living systems by living systems for living systems. Heinz von Foerster introduced the concept of second-order cybernetics on several occasions, without specifying, however, its content and cognit...

Bertalanffy's so-called "general system theory" (GST) and cybernetics were and are often confused: this calls for clarification. In this article, Bertalanffy's conceptions and ideas are compared with those developed in cybernetics in order to investigate the differences and convergences. Bertalanffy was concerned with first order cybernetics. Nonetheless, his perspectivist epistemology is also ...

The article is devoted to the scientific development of Glushkov Institute Cybernetics National Academy Sciences Ukraine on application algebraic and insertional modeling technologies created basis behavioral algebra. Technologies formalization, verification, testing software hardware specifications within model-driven method are considered. use in biological research, systems based blockchain ...