An article for an Academic Press Encyclopedia. Warfield presents formal academically structured review of the topic of Cybernetics. Provides a glossary, a discussion of its origins and definitions, a list of learned societies involved in study of the topic, a look at the varying uses of the word to refer to automated control, robotics, communication/information, and the sociotechnical and biological systems. He closes with description of what he believes to be key issues yet unresolved in the field, e.g., Integration of Knowledge, Cognition, and Cyclic Closure. He advocates a "Domain of Science Model" to resolve these issues.
The article has two tables: TABLE 2. SYSIETIES - (a list of cybernetics organizations world-wide) TABLE 1. SYSARIANS - (a list of some people who are prominent in one way or another in cybernetics & systems). The submitted manuscript is dated 17 June 1993. Published date 1994.
ISBN for the 4 vol encyclopedia set: 0122269209 (set), ISBNs for vol 2 only: 0122269225 or 9780122269226
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