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Volume 8, Issue 3
1 March 1979
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Review Article| March 01 1979

APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASTABILITY Available to Purchase

M.R. WALLACE
M.R. WALLACE
Manpower Services Commission, London (UK) 34 Church Road, Barnes, London SW13 9HN
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
1979
Kybernetes (1979) 8 (3): 185–191.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005520

Ross Ashby's concept of ultrastability in a cybernetic system is shown to have certain mathematical properties of considerable importance for workers in operational research and allied fields. One application is in the study of centralization vs. de‐centralization within an organization.

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