Cybernetics of conceptual systems

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 635-651

  Umpleby, Stuart A ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SYSTEM THEORY;

CONCEPTUAL SYSTEMS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031336862     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019697297125886     Document Type: Article

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