num_pages: 376
description: Partial Contents1: The Problem of PersistenceWeinberg's Law(s) of Twins - The General Systems Approach to Continuity2: AggregatesBirths and Deaths--The Fundamental Aggregate Equation3: Birth-Free AggregatesSocial Versus Innate Survival - Exponential Decay - Unimodal Life Tables, and Ogives4: Reasoning About AggregatesCooperation and Competition--The Law of Collapse - The Law of Typology5: Modeling Differentiated AggregatesThe State Vector - Constructing a System of Equations - To Solve or Not To Solve?6: Programs for Models of Differentiated AggregatesVarieties of Programs - Transitive Closure--The Diagram of Possible Effects7: Structure and BehaviorThe Structure of Structure - Projecting Behavior with a Linear Program8: The Structure-Regulation LawThe Equivalence of Structure and Input - Can a Linear System Be Stable?9: The Search for RegulationThe Problem of Multidimensional Regulation - Separation of Variables10: The Homeostatic HeuristicsThe Internal Environment - Identifying and Essential Variables11: Other Regulatory HeuristicsThe Feedback Principle - Analyzing Feedback Loops - The Piddling Principle12: Types of Regulatory MechanismsConditional and Unconditional Mechanisms - Error-Control - Anticipation13: Regulation and EnvironmentActing on the Environment - The Environment Regulation Laws - The Regulatory Model - The Game of Regulation14: When the Model FailsThe Fundamental Regulator Paradox - Noise - Noise in Communication Systems15: Making Regulation MysteriousThe Impression of Intelligence - The Myth of Superiority16: Overly Simple Views of RegulationThe Kool-Aid Fallacy and the Aspirin Illusion - The False-Alarm Fallacy - Flareback17: Blindness and Reversed VisionHiddenReverses - Denying the Existence of Regulation18: Epilogue
language: English
title: General Principles of Systems Design
titlecomplete: General Principles of Systems Design
genres: Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Design, Software
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Dorset House