Cybernetics & Systems Theory

In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than pr...

This comprehensive and immensely readable volume takes the reader to the cutting edge of the field. Like the conference from which it stems, the bo...

With the advent of the National Curriculum, computer based modelling CBM is now a compulsory part of the school curriculum. Teachers are increasing...

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic particip...

With the advent of the National Curriculum, computer based modelling CBM is now a compulsory part of the school curriculum. Teachers are increasing...

Optimal Estimation of Dynamic Systems, Second Edition highlights the importance of both physical and numerical modeling in solving dynamics-based e...

A bold new theory of cyberwar argues that militarized hacking is best understood as a form of deconstruction From shadowy attempts to steal state s...

Complex Systems are natural systems that science is unable to describe exhaustively. Examples of Complex Systems are both unicellular and multicell...

Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his...

Charles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his...

Fully updated and including an expanded and extensive Windows computer simulation, this unique text/disk combination provides a survey of alternati...

This book represents the best of the first three years of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology conferences. While chaos theory has been a top...

"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his ...

The only complete guide to all aspects and uses of simulation-from the international leaders in the field There has never been a single definitive...

Presents the basic approaches underlying Stafford Beer's thinking since the publication of his first book in 1959. Deals with a philosophy of scien...

Covering deterministic scheduling, stochastic scheduling, and the probabilistic analysis of algorithms, this unusually broad view of the subject br...

"Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world's most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his ...

SIMAN is a simulation language used throughout the world, much like GPSS and SLAM. In industrial engineering, SIMAN and SLAM are the dominant simul...

Explains multi-level models of enterprise systems and covers modeling methodology This book addresses the essential phenomena underlying the overal...

Computer modeling and simulation (M&S) allows engineers to study and analyze complex systems. Discrete-event system (DES)-M&S is used in mo...

This volume provides a self-contained survey of the mechanisms presiding information processing and communication. The main thesis is that chaos an...

Heinz von Foerster was the inventor of second-order cybernetics, which recognizes the investigator as part of the system he is investigating. The B...

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. It is a story that not only includes the beginnings of WikiLeaks and its end...

This book provides practical advice for everyone on how to effectively secure yourself, your devices, and your privacy in an era where all of those...

Simplifying chaos and complexity theory for the perplexed, John Gribbin's Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life brilliantly ...

This book tells the story of radical transparency in a datafied world. It is a story that not only includes the beginnings of WikiLeaks and its end...

Impossible Minds: My Neurons, My Consciousness has been written to satisfy the curiosity each and every one of us has about our own consciousness. ...

The book focuses on a paradigm of blockchain technology that addresses cyber security. The challenges related to cyber security and the solutions b...

This second edition comprehensively presents important tools of linear systems theory, including differential and difference equations, Laplace and...

This book gives an in-depth introduction to the areas of modeling, identification, simulation, and optimization. These scientific topics play an in...

Neural Network Modeling offers a cohesive approach to the statistical mechanics and principles of cybernetics as a basis for neural network modelin...

Modern Statistical, Systems, and GPSS Simulation, Second Edition introduces the theory and implementation of discrete-event simulation. This text:e...

In almost 60 articles this book reviews the current state of second-order cybernetics and investigates which new research methods second-order cybe...

The main goal is to offer to readers a panorama of recent progress in nonlinear physics, complexity and transport with attractive chapters readable...