Rethinking the cybernetic basis of design: The concepts of control and organization

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1570-1589

  Zamenopoulos, Theodore ^a   Alexiou, Katerina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category theory; Complexity; Control; Design theory; Emergence; Organization

Indexed keywords

CONTROL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CATEGORY THEORY; COMPLEMENTARY RELATION; COMPLEXITY; DESIGN THEORY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMERGENCE; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 36448981060     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710827607     Document Type: Article

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