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Positive Feedback in Natural Systems
Deangelis, Donald Lee; Post, Wilfried M.; Travis, Curtis C.
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Paperback. Series: Biomathematics. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBF; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 the processes opposite to negative feedback, the positive feedback processes that act to change systems. We attempt to redress the balance here by illustrating the enormous importance of positive feedbacks in natural systems. In an ... Read more
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 the processes opposite to negative feedback, the positive feedback processes that act to change systems. We attempt to redress the balance here by illustrating the enormous importance of positive feedbacks in natural systems. In an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Biomathematics
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642826276
SKU
V9783642826276
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99-15
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