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Kybernetes

ISSN: 0368-492X

Online from: 1972

Subject Area: Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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Volume 33 issue 3/4

Published: 2004, Start page: p499Guest editor(s): Raul Espejo

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1509132 The science of the unknowable: Stafford Beer's cybernetic informatics
Andrew Pickering (pp. 499 - 521)
Keywords: Control system analysis, Cybernetics, Information, Network synthesis
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: Conceptual paper
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876102 Tigers at play: Stafford Beer's poetry
David Whittaker (pp. 547 - 553)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Literature, Poetry
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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1454554 Observing experiences with the VSM
Werner Schuhmann (pp. 609 - 631)
Keywords: Control systems, Cybernetics, Management, Systems theory
Article type: Conceptual paper
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876106 Viability versus tribalism
Trevor Hilder (pp. 632 - 646)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Organizations, Social behaviour
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: 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
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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876111 Fighting for science
Gerard de Zeeuw (pp. 717 - 725)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Systems theory
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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876112 Implications for Beer's ontological system/metasystem dichotomy
Maurice Yolles (pp. 726 - 764)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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876113 Reflections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning
Stafford Beer (pp. 767 - 773)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management
Article type: 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
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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876115 Knowing Norbert
Stafford Beer (pp. 804 - 808)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Literature
Article type: Conceptual paper
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876116 Man in a garrulous silence
Stafford Beer (pp. 809 - 827)
Keywords: Culture (sociology), Cybernetics, Systems theory
Article type: 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
Article type: Conceptual paper
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876117 A filigree friendship
Stafford Beer (pp. 843 - 852)
Keywords: Computers, Cybernetics
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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1509133 What is cybernetics?
Stafford Beer (pp. 853 - 863)
Keywords: Cybernetics, Management science, Systems analysis
Article type: Conceptual Paper
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Preface

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1472646 Special double issue: tribute to Stafford Beer
Brian H. Rudall
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Foreword

1472647 Foreword
Raul Espejo
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