Reconstructability Analysis: An Offspring of Ashby’s Constraint Analysis

  • George J. Klir
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Part of the International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering book series (IFSR, volume 7)

Abstract

It is a great pleasure and a privilege for me to deliver this lecture and pay thus a tribute to W. Ross Ashby, a brilliant scholar who contributed so much to systems research and cybernetics.

Keywords

Structure System Shannon Entropy Reconstruction Problem Reconstructability Analysis Requisite Variety 
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