On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 07:27:24AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote: > Nick, hi, > > Been meaning to send this for a couple of days. There is a paper on > the role of models in control theory, which is perhaps profound or > perhaps a tautology (Mike Spivak comments that the two naturally go > together): > > Conant, Roger C. and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. Every Good Regulator of a > System Must > be a Model of That System. International Journal of Systems Science 1 > (2):89-97. >
Thanks for this reference! That looks very interesting. I find myself woefully ignorant of the early systems engineering stuff. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
