Abstract
The concept of a ‘large system’ arose as an expression of a systems approach to the formulation and solution of control problems, which is characteristic of cybernetics. This concept was not introduced for the purpose of classification of systems (dividing them into large’ and ‘small’), but in order to work out a method for studying the behaviour of control systems, a consideration based on taking into account all the complexities of such a system.
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Lerner, A.Y. (1972). Large Systems. In: Fundamentals of Cybernetics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1704-3_14
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