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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Magic Ring
    sub title: Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems
  name:
    name part: Mella, Piero.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXVII, 597 p. 239 illus., 187 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents a gradual path toward “educating” readers in understanding how Control Systems truly operate and in recognizing, simulating and improving them in all fields of activity. Starting from the hypothesis that knowledge of Control Systems is not only a technical fact but also represents a discipline – that is, “A discipline is a developmental path for acquiring certain skills or competencies. (…) To practice a discipline is to be a lifelong learner. You “never arrive”; you spend your life mastering disciplines.” (Senge, 2006, p. 10) – Piero Mella has set the objective of making Control Systems a topic that is, in a certain sense, simple and attractive by turning to the effective symbolism typical of Systems Thinking models and avoiding too technical and formal a treatment of the subject. Thus readers should know that this is not an engineering, physics, biology or economics text, nor a mathematics one either. Technical or mathematical tools are not necessary to construct Control Systems; instead the book adopts a highly simple and universal logic behind the notion itself of control process and the simple and universal action of the Control Systems that produce this process. The Magic Ring: Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 seeks to review the basic language of Systems Thinking and the models it allows us to create, while Chapter 2 introduces the control process, presenting the theoretical structure of four simple Control Systems we all can observe and manage. In Chapter 3 a general typology of Control Systems is proposed with examples taken from observations of reality. The view of Control Systems is broadened in Chapter 4 by introducing two important generalizations: 1. multilever Control Systems, with levers that are independent or dependent of each other; 2. multi-objective systems, with independent or interdependent objectives. Chapter 5 outlines the guidelines for recognizing, observing or designing…
  table of contents: The Language of Systems Thinking for Control Systems -- The Ring: The General Structure of Control Systems -- The Rign Variety: A Basic Typology -- The Ring Completed: Multi-lever and Multi-objective Control Systems -- The Ring: Observation and Design -- The Magic Ring in Action: Individuals -- The Magic Ring in Action: Life Environments -- The Magic Ring in Action: Organizations -- The Magic Ring Explores Cognition and Learning -- Concluding Remarks: Toward a General Discipline of Control.
  note: by Piero Mella.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Algorithms
  subject:
    topic: System theory
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Systems Theory, Control
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  classification: Q295
  classification: QA402.3-402.37
  classification: 519
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary Systems Thinking
  identifier: 9783319053868
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05386-8
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    record creation date: 140506
    record change date: 20151204182105.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-05386-8