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Kybernetes


Volume 33 Issue 3

Published: 2004 | Start Page: 499


Guest Editor(s): Raul Espejo
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Articles
Article No: Article Information:
1509132 The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics
Andrew Pickering (pp. 499-521)
Keywords: Control system analysis, Cybernetics, Information, Network synthesis
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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1454552 Sequences of failure in complex socio-technical systems: Some implications of decision and control
David Weir (pp. 522-537)
Keywords: Complexity theory, Cybernetics, Sociotechnical theory
ArticleType: Conceptual paper
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1454553 The market economy unchecked: Another version of fundamentalism? A polemical tribute to Stafford Beer
Allenna Leonard (pp. 538-546)
Keywords: Control systems, Cybernetics, Market economy, Social benefits
ArticleType: Conceptual paper
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876102 Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry
David Whittaker (pp. 547-553)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Literature, Poetry
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876103 City planning: “Dissolving” urban problems insights from an application of management cybernetics
Markus Schwaninger, Markus Koerner (pp. 557-576)
Keywords: Control systems, Cybernetics, Project management, Urban areas
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876104 The role of information and models in regulating complex commercial systems
Stephen Brewis (pp. 577-589)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Information, Modelling
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876105 A self-organizing network for the systems community
José Pérez Ríos (pp. 590-606)
Keywords: Control systems, Cybernetics, Information networks
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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1454554 Observing experiences with the VSM
Werner Schuhmann (pp. 609-631)
Keywords: Control systems, Cybernetics, Management, Systems theory
ArticleType: Conceptual paper
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876106 Viability versus tribalism
Trevor Hilder (pp. 632-646)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Organizations, Social behaviour
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876107 Observations on the development of cybernetic ideas in Colombia: A tribute to Stafford Beer
German Bula (pp. 647-658)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Transformational leadership
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876108 Heinz and Stafford: A tribute to Heinz von Foerster and Stafford Beer
Rebeca Donoso (pp. 659-667)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Education, Poetry
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876109 The footprint of complexity: the embodiment of social systems
Raul Espejo (pp. 671-700)
Keywords: Communications, Complexity theory, Cybernetics, Social interaction
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876110 A Latino American Requiem for Stafford Beer
Roberto Zarama, José Bermeo, Nelson Lammoglia, Jairo Villamil (pp. 701-716)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Systems theory
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876111 Fighting for science
Gerard de Zeeuw (pp. 717-725)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Systems theory
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876112 Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy
Maurice Yolles (pp. 726-764)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876113 Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning
Stafford Beer (pp. 767-773)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876114 World in Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come
Stafford Beer (pp. 774-803)
Keywords: Change management, Cybernetics, Team working
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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876115 Knowing Norbert
Stafford Beer (pp. 804-808)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Literature
ArticleType: Conceptual paper
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876116 Man in a garrulous silence
Stafford Beer (pp. 809-827)
Keywords: Culture (sociology), Cybernetics, Systems theory
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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1454555 Ten pints of Beer: The rationale of Stafford Beer's cybernetic books (1959-94)
(pp. 828-842)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management science, Organizational analysis
ArticleType: Conceptual paper
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876117 A filigree friendship
Stafford Beer (pp. 843-852)
Keywords: Computers, Cybernetics
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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1509133 What is cybernetics?
Stafford Beer (pp. 853-863)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management science, Systems analysis
ArticleType: Conceptual Paper
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Preface

Special double issue: tribute to Stafford Beer
Item No: Item Information
1472646 Special double issue: tribute to Stafford Beer
Journal: Kybernetes
Vol : 33 Issue: 3
Author(s): Brian H. Rudall
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Foreword

Foreword
Item No: Item Information
1472647 Foreword
Journal: Kybernetes
Vol : 33 Issue: 3
Author(s): Raul Espejo
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