Requisite variety and its implications for the control of complex systems.

Ashby, W. R. (1958). Requisite variety and its implications for the control of complex systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cybernetics.

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Book chapter

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Review or monograph

Year

1958

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Springer Nature

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• Requisite Variety
  • the disturbance-set as system-perturbation source

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    The abstract states the law of requisite variety for regulating complex systems, but never mentions a disturbance-set or perturbations, so it backs the frame only.

    “Recent work on the fundamental processes of regulation in biology (Ashby, 1956) has shown the importance of a certain quantitative relation called the law of requisite variety.”

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