Self-organization and novelty: Pre-configurations of emergence in early British cybernetics

2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century: Driving Technology's Future, 21CW 2014 - Incorporating the Proceedings of the 2014 North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference, NAFIPS 2014, Conference Proceedings

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  Soler Adillon, Joan ^a   Penny, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Artificial life art; Cybernetics; Design methodology; Emergence; Interactive art; Interactive systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ARTIFICIAL LIFE ARTS; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; EMERGENCE; INTERACTIVE ARTS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM;

CYBERNETICS;

EXPERIMENTATION; FORMULATIONS;

EID: 84908626439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NORBERT.2014.6893946     Document Type: Conference Paper

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