REQUISITE VARIETY IN THE SYSTEMS AND CONTROL SCIENCES
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of General Systems
- Vol. 2 (4) , 225-229
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03081077608547472
Abstract
Trends in the systems and control sciences are discussed in relation to certain results in cybernetics. In particular, optimal control theory is reviewed in the light of practical engineering requirements and servomechanism theory is considered in the light of Ashby's law of requisite variety.Keywords
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