purpose: libraries and information centers as information storage and retrieval systems can develop with the adoption of cybernetics rules. this paper discusses system dynamics, control, feedback, and other cybernetic concepts especially in information storage and retrieval systems. methodology: this study is a review intending to find what cybernetics and lis have in common especially in the f...

purpose: regarding the role of the observer in cybernetics, this paper aims to investigate the evolution of knowledge. it states the philosophical foundations of four types of cybernetics in order to reveal the necessity of these approaches in knowledge and information science. methodology: review and analysis of published resources findings: the observer performs different roles in various ord...

The key idea in cybernetics is feedback [1]. It is a closed cycle: the object affects itself through other objects. Within the scope of the new cybernetics [2, 3, 4, 5], this idea has been developed further the cyberneticians (investigators and observers) and cybernetics (the studied/observed system) influence each other and thus create feedback. The new cybernetics is otherwise known as the cy...

Software Cybernetics explores the interplay between software and control. Though the concepts of software and cybernetics are well known when considered in isolation, the definition and scope of Software Cybernetics is sometimes blurred due to its novelty. A definition of Software Cybernetics and the delineation of its scope are the major goals of this article. Also presented here is a brief de...

In this paper, the origins of second-order Cybernetics are sketched, and are particularly identified with circularity: a quality that was at the basis of the studies that lead to the creation of the field of Cybernetics. The implications of the new analysis that second-order Cybernetics (Cybernetics treated cybernetically: that is, Cybernetics when circularity is taken seriously) gives rise to ...

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