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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Cybernetic"”.
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Cybernetic thinking and share-price prediction
The thesis presents the application of cybernetic thinking to the central problem of investment analysis; that of share-price prediction. Cybernetics is seen as an inter-disciplinary study (as opposed to multi-disciplinary) in which the barriers between living and non-living systems are ignored. …
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From Connected Digital Art to Cybernetic Ecologies
… – something that is further referred to as a cybernetic ecology. The connected digital artwork and cybernetic ecology concepts, together with the supporting framework, the new digital artworks and the underlying technical infrastructure, are a contribution to knowledge that will be of benefit …
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A cybernetic approach to world class manufacturing
Bibliography: leaves 75-76.
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Science as a growing system: A cybernetic essay
… logistic reconstitutions seek) but rather as a cybernetic adaptative learning process (in the sense of G. PASK and H. VON FOESTER). The use of this approach allows, in particular: - to demonstrate that Science may be globally regarded as a (time-"space") growing system; - to give expression to …
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An outline theory of art on cybernetic principles
The object of this study is to draw art into the common net of organization, along with those other enterprizes more commonly associated with the exercise of intelligence. The method chosen for this is based upon the idea of effective procedures, namely by setting out to construct a (notional) 'art …
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Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political sciences
This thesis, entitled Vulnerable Sovereignty: A cybernetic essay in political science, attempts to investigate an area usually related to the sphere of military or national defence. Nevertheless sovereignty as conceived in this study enables the analysis to be set in a broader context using the …
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Body of glass: cybernetic bodies and the mirrored self
This thesis examines the ontology of the cyborg body and the politics inherent to cultural manifestations of that image, and focuses on the links between glass and human-machine integration, while tracing the dangerous political affinities that emerge when such links are exposed. In the first …
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Attention: A view suggested by systemic and cybernetic consideration
… there is relatedness, information theory, in a cybernetic sense, can be used. The approach developed benefits of the advantages from previous models allowing also for a better explanation of the limitation present in the cognitive realm without appeal to some 'filter mechanism' in the …
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Cybernetic Control of an Electrochemical Repertoire (Potentiostat, Instrumentation, Adsorption)
Many experimental methods have been developed to attack different problems by electrochemical means. In chemical analysis, sensitivity and selectivity may be achieved by using different methods. The availability of multiple techniques is even more important in fundamental research. Diagnostic …
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Human social groups: A cybernetic account of stability and instability
… A third, implicit, aim was the adaptation of cybernetic methodology to small group studies. It was felt that a systems approach would provide a formal, but flexible analytic tool appropriate to the richness and complexity of the phenomenon. Various explanatory hypotheses were constructed, all …
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Towards a cybernetic understanding of the performer's 'work upon himself'
… in Theatre Anthropology to the discourse of cybernetics. This dissertation aims to make this link, with particular reference to Gregory Bateson's cybernetic matrix in Angels Fear Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred. In so doing, the dissertation hopes to show that the observations made in …
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A cybernetic model for the unified explanation of human behavior
<p>The mechanistic approach to the explanation of human behavior is as old as western philosophy itself, dating back to the materialistic theories of mind of the pre-Socratics. Despite its antiquity, however, mechanism has never gained undisputed ascendancy as a psychological model. The “mental” …
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Cybernetic maintenance : exploring infrastructure legibility of waste systems at MIT
If Waste is Information, what can be learned from an understanding of waste management at MIT as a complex information system? Through engaging people with their role within a waste system, can relations to and practices of waste management change? This thesis presents a case study for making and …
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A cybernetic perspective on policy-making and planning in local government
… as top-down. Previous attempts to apply cybernetic ideas to these problems - characterised as the 'systems approach' - have failed partly on account of their failure to question this view. Cybernetics, it is argued, offers a fundamentally different perspective on planning, which …
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An electronic laager: a sculptural interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order
… interpretation of post-industrial society's cybernetic order, forms a concise description, and 'key' to an interpretation and understanding of the various issues which have amalgamated to inform my iconography, and the way in which these issues have been transformed into sculptural expression.
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A Cybernetic analysis of the United States of America's relationship with Iraq
… of marriage and family therapy, specifically cybernetics, to the relationship between the US and Iraqi governments. This study also attempts to describe recent changes in Iraq incurred during the ongoing war in Iraq as either first- or second-order change. Taken from 2001 to 2005, 76 print …
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A cybernetic approach to prediction with an outline of an adaptive optical computer
Since the pioneering work of Kolmogoroff and Wiener the use of computing devices to solve problems concerned with - the prediction of future states of a time series has stimulated a large amount of research. Despite all this, however the results have been disappointing. If significant progress were …
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Design for a mind with many bodies : cybernetic micro-interventions in the cryosphere
… here instead suggests that through a soft, cybernetic approach of aggregated micro-interventions a higher degree of adaptability and autopoiesis could be attained within the realm of interventions in natural ecosystems. The approach attempts to highlight the importance of a reactive quality …
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The Politics of Conspiracy Theory and Control: Cybernetic Governmentality and the Scripted Political
… conspiracy theory discourses in the context of cybernetics and related transformations in politics that have tended to reduce democratic representativeness and increase forms of economic and political inequality. Cybernetics, which is often defined as the science of command and control, offers a …
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