Control information theory: The 'missing link' in the science of cybernetics

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-311

  Corning, Peter A ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of Complex Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications theory; Cybernetics; Information theory; Second order cybernetics; Semiotics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; AVAILABLE ENERGY; COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTROL; CONTROL INFORMATION; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; SECOND ORDERS; SHANNON INFORMATION; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION THEORY; SEMIOTICS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34548039217     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.808     Document Type: Article

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