In the past decades, we have witnessed the developments of various kinds of modern or postmodern control theories, such as LQG or LQR optimal control, H∞ control, and μ analysis and synthesis, from their emergence to maturity and applications in some practical systems. Despite of the success of the modern or postmodern control theory, we have to admit that the majority of the controllers used i...

Modern general system theory proposed a holistic integrative approach based on input-state-output dynamics as opposed to the traditional reductionist detail based approach. Information complexity and uncertainty required a fuzzy system theory, based on fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic. While successful in dealing with analysis, synthesis and control of technical engineering systems, general system th...

This article discusses, from an historical-neo-institutionalist and relational-strategic perspective, the postmodern thesis of the end of the state due to the increasing processes of world globalization. The main hypothesis is that the arguments which predict the structural crisis or the disappearance of the State in the age of neo-liberal globalization have their roots in a theoretically and h...

In constructing a distinctive polemic, postmodern architecture presented itself as a reaction to the modem movement, embodying both its negation and transcendence. In the ongoing debate over the definition of postmodernity as a cultural condition, the position of negation continues to come under severe criticism. This thesis attempts to understand constituents of the ideological discourse of po...

There are various authors who, within the realm of bioethics, propose as a model of the human being, a man who is enhanced, transhuman or even posthuman. The philosophical roots of these bioethical thinkers have not been sufficiently analysed. In this article our aim is to demonstrate the connection of this movement with the evolution of philosophy over the past several decades. Therefore, and ...

This paper examines the concept of organizational emergence with respect to postmodern business organizations. We conclude that although there may be postmodern business enterprises in the United States, by and large they subcontract, not abolish, their modern work place relations. Information technology (IT) has been at the core of this process. Sophisticated information technologies have perm...

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To unify or not to unify applied psychology: That is the question. In this chapter we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question, from a comprehensive, positivist, "top-down," deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 1960s to a postmodern no since then and until recently. We then present a rationale and proposal for a limited, "bottom-up," inductive yes, using...

expressionism in painting, existentialism in philosophy, the final forms of representation in the novel, the films of the great auteurs, or the modernist school of poetry (as institutionalized and canonized in the works of Wallace Stevens): all these are now seen as the final, extraordinary flowering of a high modernist impulse which is spent and exhausted with them. . . . the younger generatio...

We discuss the ‘software crisis’ as a social and cultural phenomenon, arguing that it can be viewed as (one more) manifestation of postmodernism. We illustrate our argument with a range of examples taken from software engineering, demonstrating software engineering’s roots in (and commitment to) modernism and the nature of its fin de siècle predicament. We argue that current attempts within sof...