Science - Technology - Cybernetics Principia Cybernetica Web (PCP) - An International Project to Develop a Philosophy Based on the Principles of Cybernetics and Supported by Collaborative Computer Technologies. A Curriculum for Cybernetics and Systems Theory - List of suggested books, periodicals, television shows and computer programs for a classroom curriculum or individual study in cybernetics and systems theory. Carlos.Gersheson@COGS.Sussex - Work of Carlos Gershenson: Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence, Behaviour-based systems, artificial societies, Artificial Life International e-Journal of Abstracts for Cybernetics and Systems Research - A collection of bibliography from the field of knowledge in cybernetics, systemics, systems sciences, systems research both scientific, applied and out of practical experience. Introduction to Cybernetics - A classic book about cybernetics freely available in Acrobat PDF format. ACTA CYBERNETICA Home Page - A scientific journal published by the Department of Informatics of the University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary. Advances in complex systems - Journal for multidisciplinary approaches, either empirical or theoretical, to the study of complex systems in such diverse fields as biology, physics, engineering, economics, cognitive science and social sciences, so as to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas among all the scientific disciplines having to deal with their own complex systems. Biological Cybernetics - Journal to provide a medium for the experimental, theoretical and application-oriented aspects of information processing in organisms, including sensory, motor, cognitive, and ecological phenomena. Free abstracts and licensed full texts of all articles through the Springer LINK system. Control & Cybernetics - This quarterly journal is edited and published in English language since 1972 by the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Its main objective is to stimulate the development of broadly conceived systems theory and analysis. Cybernetics and Human Knowing - A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Semiotics. Cybernetics and Systems - A journal to serve as an international forum for the publication of the latest developments in cybernetics. Cybernetics and Systems Analysis - This translation of the Russian title "Kibernetica" focuses on fresh formulations of problems and new methods of investigation. Journal with six issues per year. Entropy - An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Sciences, publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. European Journal of Control - The aim of the Journal is to publish high quality papers on the theory and practice of control and systems engineering. The scope of the Journal will be wide and cover all aspects of the discipline including methodologies, techniques and applications. grkg/Humankybernetik - Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft: Journal for Modelling and Application of Mathematics in Humanities. Papers in the AIC Languages English, French, German and ILo. JASS Journal - Journal of Applied Systems Studies - Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation - An interdisciplinary journal for the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. Journal of Biological Systems (JBS) - Promotes interdisciplinary approaches in Biology and in Medicine. Journal of Sociocybernetics - The Official Journal of Research Committee on Sociocybernetics (RC51) Kybernetes - Official journal of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC). kybernetiknet - das virtuelle magazin - Online Journal for General Cybernetics in English and German. Open Systems & Information Dynamics - Journal to promote interdisciplinary research in mathematics, physics, engineering and life sciences. Systems Research and Behavioral Science - The journal publishes articles about new theories, experimental results, and applications relating to all levels of living and non-living systems. Process Control Club Magazine - Online magazine of science and technology dedicated to control, signal and image processing, fuzzy logic etc. Includes articles and Matlab sources. In Polish with some contributions in English. American Society for Cybernetics - Aims are to facilitate the work of those with an interest in the field of cybernetics. CybSoc - The Cybernetics Society, London, UK The Control Systems Group - Membership organization dedicated to application of William T. Powers' perceptual control theory model to undertsanding purposeful behavior. IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control - A multinational Federation of Organizations Representing the Engineering and Scientific Societies Concerned with Automatic Control. International Association for Cybernetics - Aims are to ensure a permanent and organized connection between cybernetics researchers around the world to promote the development of this science and its technical applications. WOSC: Homepage - World Organization of Cybernetics and Systems Cambridge Cybernetic Society - Association with the mission to create a forum for transdisciplinary discussion in the tradition of cybernetics, to consider relationships of technology, commerce and society in the 21st Century and to offer perspectives of cybernetics as a constructive discipline, especially in the context of its prefix being usurped. Oesterreichische Studiengesellschaft fuer Kybernetik (OESGK) (21-Feb-1996) - Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, a non-profit organization of scientists and practitioners. Its aims are "the study of the theoretical bases of cybernetics and its special fields, the investigation of its applications on technical, economic and social problems, its relations to problems studied in the natural sciences and the humanities; furthermore, the education in the methods of cybernetics and its technical aids, especially in electronic data processing; finally, the advancement of interdisciplinary studies, and the representation of Austria in international organizations". Norbert Wiener Institute of Systems and Cybernetics - The Norbert Wiener Institute is active in over fifty nations worldwide. Since its foundation in 1969, and subsequently as a result of its reorganisation at the New York (1990) and the New Delhi (1993) WOSC Congresses, it has been involved in the researches of over 1000 scientists. IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetic Society - Fields of Interest are Integration of the Theories of Communication, Control, Cybernetics, Stochastics, Optimization and System Structure towards the Formulation of a General Theory of Systems, Technology and Application of the Above to the Analysis and Design of Biological, Ecological, Socio-Economic, Social Service, Computer Information, and Operational Man-Machine Systems. Control-Automatico.net - Information and Services on Automation and Control, Maintained by the Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia. Mostly in Spanish with some English References. Institute for Medical and Biological Cybernetics - Computer biofeedback games for the whole family. Business Unit Cell Cybernetics - Plant Research International. European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR) - Congress held biennially to serve as a forum for discussion of converging ideas and new aspects of different scientific disciplines. American Society for Cybernetics - Conferences - Regularly Updated List with Conferences and other Events. Systems Science Programme - Master's Program in Systems Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Educational Cybernetics Course - Course for Educational Cybersystemics, a way of understanding and improving educational ventures and learning conversations at the Concordia University. IIAS (International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics) - A non-profit educational organization committed to the development and promotion of Cybernetics and Systems Research in all areas of human endeavour (Ontario, Canada). Department of Cybernetics - University of Bradford - The Department of Cybernetics, Internet and Virtual Systems. University of Bradford England, UK. University of Reading, Department of Cybernetics - Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK. University of Bradford: Cybernetics - Undergraduate courses in Cybernetics at the University of Bradford, UK. Cybernetics and System Dynamics. Courses Online - Online Courses of the Catedra UNESCO-UPC. The theory of model construction is explained through the extensive use of study cases. UCLA Cybernetics Home Page - Interdepartmental Cybernetics Program, University of California, Los Angeles. Knowledge Miner - Cybernetic Modeling Program Reconfiguring Multi-Input Statistical Data into Extraction Analysis. Image Analysis Software from Media Cybernetics - Makers of industry standard image analysis software including Image-Pro Plus and Gel-Pro Analyzer. GS Technical Support Center - Software and Service in Data Acquisition and Control Technology. XML Document Tools - Multi-platform editing and XSLT searching software designed for use in anthropocybernetics. Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems - Online Dictionary for Cybernetics, Systems Science and Communication, a combination of theASC Glossary, Krippendorff's Dictionary and Hornung's Glossary. Introduction to Cybernetics - A Classic Book by W. Ross Ashby (Chapman & Hall, London, 1956). Acrobat PDF Format. Stafford Beer and Team Syntegrity - An overview "portrait" of cybernetician Beer and his invention of Team Syntegrity. Concepts - An Overview of Key Concepts of Cybernetics with Contributions provided by Readers. What is Cybernetics? - A Definition by Paul Pangaro. Perspectives - In anticipation of the 1997 ASC Conference a number of perspectives on cybernetics were solicited for the website. Definitions - A Selection of the many Definitions for Cybernetics, provided by the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC). Evolutionary Cybernetics - Guide features definitions and descriptions of Darwinian methodologies. Bertalanffy - A Biography of Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Foundations - History of Cybernetics as seen by the American Society for Cybernetics. Cybermedia: Wiener - View and Ideas of Norbert Wiener. Bertalanffy Biography - Weltanschauung - A short Biography of Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Founder of General Systems Theory. University of Paderborn: Institut für Kybernetik - The Institute for Cybernetics at the University of Paderborn, Germany with Three Divisions for Educational Cybernetics, Language Cybernetics and Educational Informatics. Bacterial Cybernetics Group - Working group investigating the organizational principles of bacterial growth and colony formation (Tel Aviv University, Israel). Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany - The Department for Biological Cybernetics at the University of Bielefed, Germany, is Focussed in the Research for Movement Control in Animals and Humans. Cybernetics - Reading University - Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - The Institute in Tübingen (Germany) Is Centered on the Acquisition and Processing of Visual Information in the Nervous System. University of Bradford - Department of Cybernetics - Cybernetics in Bradford is Centered in Control, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Cybernetics has an Active Research Programme Mapping out Future Developments and Applications of the New Revolution (UK). Institute of Engineering Cybernetics - Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland. Institute of Cybernetics - Estonian Academy of Sciences. Department of Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence - Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia. The Research Committee on Sociocybernetics - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. vordenker webforum - Web Forum for Innovative Approaches in Sciences, Economy and Culture with Emphasis on Cybernetics and Systems Science (Germany). UCLA Biocybernetics Laboratory - Biocybernetics Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, founded in 1966 by Prof. J. J. DiStefano, III (Los Angeles, Ca., USA). Institut für Kybernetik und Systemtheorie Dortmund - A Research Institute as well as a Granting and Promoting Association for Cybernetics in Science and Education (English - German). Department of Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague - Research is conducted in two centers: (a) Gerstner Laboratory for Intelligent Decision Making Knowledge Based Systems, Multi-Agent Sytems, Machine Learning, Mobile Robotics and (b) the Center for Machine Perception Computer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition. Istituto di Cibernetica a Biofisica - Institute of Cybernetics and Biophysics, University of Genoa, Italy. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche: Istituto di Cibernetica - Institute of Cybernetics, Italian National Research Council. Neuro Cybernetics Laboratory - Laboratory of Neuro-Cybernetics, Research Group of Biomedical Information Engineering, Division of Systems and Information Engineering, Graduate School, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics - GIC, Kyiv, Ukraine. Information on History, Research and Publikations. Experimental and Computatinal Neurosciences - ECN is a multidisciplinary group Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of Italian CNR in the field of Neurosciences. The main topics include: Computer simulation of synaptic transmission; Neural Network; Parallel computation; Immuno-histochemistry of brain. Laboratory of Biocybernetics - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Institutt for teknisk kybernetikk - Institute for Technical Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway). Cybernetic Intelligence Research Group - Working group at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, engaged in the study of intelligence and its application. Institute for Systems Science - Located at the University of Linz, Austria. Teaching and research resources. Instrumentation & Signal Processing Research Group - Working group at the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, directed towards the development and use of instrumentation and techniques for the acquisition and processing of information from both natural and man-made signal sources. Interactive Systems Research Group - The unifying theme to the research conducted in this working group at the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading, UK, is the study of systems that require 'humans-in-the-loop'. Jagiellonian University - Medical College - Department of Biocybernetics - Cracow, Poland CHAOS - Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems, University of Liège, Belgium. The Santa Fe Institute - "Operating as a small, visiting institution, SFI seeks to catalyze new collaborative, multidisciplinary projects that break down the barriers between the traditional disciplines, to spread its ideas and methodologies to other individuals and encourage the practical applications of its results". CRDI RTC - The State Scientific Center of Russia, Central R&D Institute for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (St. Petersburg, Russian Federation). Forschungszentrum Jülich: IBI - Institute for Biological Information Processing, Jülich, F. R. Germany. Faculty of Cybernetics - National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv/Kiev, Ukraine. Information in English, Russian and Ukrainan. Research association "CYBERNETICS" - Covers the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics and the Scientific-Engineering Enterprises "Geoinformation Systems", "Information Technologies", "Automation Systems" and "Scientific Device-Building" of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Cybernetic Center at TPU - Tomsk Polytechnical University, Russian Federation. Hamilton Institute - Centre for systems science research, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. Institute of Cybernetics at TTU - Interdisciplinary Research Centre Focusing on Nonlinear Dynamics, Control, and Computer Science. (Tallin, Estonia.) Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich - Institute Specialized in Communication Theory and Application, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (München, Bavaria, F. R. Germany). Cybernetics & Human Knowing - A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cyber-Semiotics. Chilean School of Biology of Cognition - Offering overview of Maturana's contributions to psychology, 'Ask Professor Maturana', and online archive editions of important articles. Radical Constructivism - The most comprehensive Webspace on constructivist epistemology (a component of the second-order cybernetics worldview), especially the work of von Glasersfeld and von Foerster Towards an Ecology of Mind - Well-organized site addressing (e.g.) Gregory Bateson, Humberto Maturana, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Heinz von Foerster, and George Kelly. Autopoiesis and Enaction: The Observer Web - The most comprehensive Internet reference on the biology of cognition / autopoietic theory / enactive cognitive science (the theories of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela) Luis E. Bastias - Contributions to the development of Valparaiso's Autopoiesis Theory Primer - ISSS Primer Project. CALResCo - Complexity and Artificial Life Research Concept. Sensitivity Model Prof. Vester - A computer supported planning instrument for the capture and assessment of complex systems. Center for Systems Science - The Center for Systems Science at the Yale University. JASS Journal - Journal of Applied Systems Studies - Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches. ISSS: International Society for the Systems Sciences Homepage System Dynamics Society - An international nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging the development and use of systems thinking and system dynamics around the world. International Federation for Systems Research - A non-profit, scientific and educational agency, constituted of member organizations from various countries. The overall purpose of the Federation is to advance cybernetic and systems research and systems applications and to serve the international systems community. Institute for Systems Science - Located at the University of Linz, Austria. Teaching and research resources. arXiv.org e-Print archive - The Los Alamos National Lab maintains a collections of e-prints dealing with nonlinear phenomena and others. Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems - Dresden (Saxonia, Germany) SIAM Dynamical Systems Activity Group - Siam contains current conferences and topics related to dynamical systems. Ilya Prigogine Center for Studies in Statistical Mechanics & Complex Sytems - The Homepage of Ilya Prigogine Center at The University of Texas at Austin, with links to faculty and staff, e-prints, and tutorials in chaos physics and other topics Progress - Site to help with wise decision-making. Includes theoretical articles about decision theory and decision making more generally, case studies, and the Progress decision procedure. Designed for use for personal dilemmas, career decisions, ethical problems Choice Engineering Consultants International - ceci, a not-for-profit institution founded to elevate individual and organizational decision making. MIT Clinical Decision Making Group - Home page of MIT's Clinical Decision Making Group which is focused on applying computer science, and artificial intelligence in particular, to medicine. Medizinische Kybernetik Medical Cybernetics: Medical Decision Making - Educational Material, Links and Software for Clinical Decision Theory. Division of Applied Synergetics - Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japan. Group of Nonlinear Dynamics and Synergetics - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Springer Series in Synergetics - A forum for interdisciplinary research and discussion, edited by H. Haken, Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Medizinische Kybernetik Medical Cybernetics - Scientific resources and educational material for medical cybernetics and systems theory. The Physiome Project - An integrated multi-centric program to design, develop, implement, test and document, archive and disseminate quantitative information and integrative models of the functional behavior of organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence - A Department of the University of Vienna (Austria). Jozef Stefan Institute, Dept. E-1, Biocybernetics Laboratory - Basic and applied research, production of electrical stimulators. SPINA: Structure Parameter Inference Approach - Reference information, mailing list and software on SPINA, a method to calculate constant structure parameters of endocrine feedback control systems from hormone levels obtained in vivo. A first application covers thyroid disorders. Cognition and Affect, Architectures and Emotions - A Project at the School of Computer Science, Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of Birmingham. Institute for Communications Engineering, Technical University of Munich - Institute Specialized in Communication Theory and Application, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. The Research Committee on Sociocybernetics Resources on Sociocybernetics - Niklas Luhmann was one of the founders of Sociocybernetics, merging cybernetics, self-organizing theory, and social change. grkg/Humankybernetik - Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft: Journal for Modelling and Application of Mathematics in Humanities. Papers in the AIC Languages English, French, German and ILo. Real.Anthropology - A project aiming to formally identify relationships between ideational and material models used by anthropologists, and investigate and evaluate agent-oriented simulations for implementing such integrated models. MACT - Mathematical Anthropology and Cultural Theory, a Journal for the Scientific Study of Culture. The Research Committee on Sociocybernetics Cognition and Affect, Architectures and Emotions - A Project at the School of Computer Science, Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of Birmingham. Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology Seewiesen - One of the Institutes of the Max-Planck-Society. Research Topics are Behavioural Ecology, Cognitive Behaviour - Olfactorial orientation and its sensory basis (Seewiesen, BY, Germany). The Physiome Project - An integrated multi-centric program to design, develop, implement, test and document, archive and disseminate quantitative information and integrative models of the functional behavior of organelles, cells, tissues, organs, and organisms Bacterial Cybernetics Group, Tel Aviv University, Israel - Working group investigating the organizational principles of bacterial growth and colony formation. Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany - The Department for Biological Cybernetics at the University of Bielefed, Germany, is Focussed in the Research for Movement Control in Animals and Humans Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - The Institute in Tübingen (Germany) is Centered on the Acquisition and Processing of Visual Information in the Nervous System Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering - Polish Academy of Sciences. International Center of Biocybernetics (ICB) Laboratory of Biocybernetics - University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland. www.systems-biology.org - Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project PhysioNet - Free access via the web to large collections of recorded physiologic signals and related open-source software. UCLA Biocybernetics Laboratory - Biocybernetics Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, founded in 1966 by Prof. J. J. DiStefano, III (Los Angeles, Ca., USA). Institute for Systems Biology - Research institute dedicated to the integration of technology, computation, biology and medicine (Seattle, WA, USA). Jozef Stefan Institute, Dept. E-1, Biocybernetics Laboratory - Basic and applied research, production of electrical stimulators. Educational Cybernetics - Course for Educational Cybersystemics, a way of understanding and improving educational ventures and learning conversations at the Concordia University. Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies (AINS) - Toward a Unification of Relativity and Quantum Theory via Circularly Causal Modeling; an "aether" theory based on, and extending, the deBroglie-Bohm interpretation. Cybernetics Discussion Group - Discussion List maintained by the Center for Social and Organizational Learning at the George Washington University. 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