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Systems, Cybernetics, Control, and Automation
Ontological, Epistemological, Societal, and Ethical Issues
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River Publishers - Published
28th August 2017 - ISBN 9788793609075
- Language English
- Pages 450 pp.
- Size 6.125" x 9.5"
- Images color photos, line figures
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- Publisher
River Publishers - Published
31st August 2017 - ISBN 9788793609068
- Language English
- Pages 450 pp.
- Images color photos, line figures
Systems, cybernetics, control, and automation (SCCA) are four interrelated and overlapping scientific and technological fields that have contributed substantially to the development, growth, and progress of human society. A large number of models, methods, and tools were developed that assure high efficiency of SCCA applied to practical situations. The real-life applications of SCCA encompass a wide range of man-made or biological systems, including transportation, power generation, chemical industry, robotics, manufacturing, cybernetics organisms (cyborgs), aviation, economic systems, enterprise, systems, medical/health systems, environmental applications, and so on. The SCCA fields exhibit strong influences on society and raise, during their use and application, many ethical concerns and dilemmas.
This book provides a consolidated and concise overview of SCCA in a single volume for the first time, focusing on ontological, epistemological, social impact, ethical, and general philosophical issues. It is appropriate for use as independent reading by students and scientists or in engineering courses as a convenient tutorial source providing fundamental conceptual and educational material on these issues.
Included in the book are:
- Background material on philosophy and systems theory
- Major ontological, epistemological, societal, and ethical/philosophical aspects of the four fields considered in the book
- Over 400 references and a list of 130 additional books in the relevant fields
- Over 100 color photos and 70 line figures that illustrate the text.
Introductory Concepts and Outline of the book
Basics of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Technology
Background Concepts: Systems Ontology, History, and Taxonomy
General Systems Theory and System Dynamics
Cybernetics
Control
Complex and Nonlinear Systems
Automation
Societal Issues
Ethical and Philosophical Issues
Spyros G. Tzafestas
Spyros G. Tzafestas is Emeritus Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (SECE).