Positive Feedback in Natural Systems

by Curtis C. Travis, Wilfried M. Post, Donald L. DeAngelis

Book Overview

Cybernetics, a science concerned with understanding how systems are regulated, has reflected the preoccupations of the century in which it was born. Regulation is important in twentieth century society, where both machines and social organizations are complex. Cybernetics focused on and became primarily associated with the homeostasis or stability of system behavior and with the negative feedbacks that stabilize systems. It paid less attention to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 364282627X
• ISBN13: 9783642826276
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"