After relatively a short period of neglect, cybernetics has been recognized in the former USSR and attracted a broad range of scientists. A brief review of some cybernetical researches in the former USSR and in modern Russia is presented. On the basis of Arturo Rosenblueth and Norbert Wiener’s concept of homeostasis, a special approach to studying systems of various kinds has been formed in the last ten years. A brief picture of the main features of this approach, called “Homeostatics” and its results during the last five years, is displayed. In the line of Stafford Beer the foremost attention is paid to social systems and organizations, their control and survivability. A few other important cybernetical directions in the Russian science, such as artificial intelligence and informatization, are described.
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V.I. Astafyev;
V.I. Astafyev
Siberian Institute of Energetics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
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Yu.M. Gorsky;
Yu.M. Gorsky
Siberian Institute of Energetics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
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L.N. Yolkov
L.N. Yolkov
Siberian Institute of Energetics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
1999
Kybernetes (1999) 28 (5): 527–538.
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Astafyev V, Gorsky Y, Yolkov L (1999), "Norbert Wiener and new trends in cybernetics development (with emphasis on homeostatics)". Kybernetes, Vol. 28 No. 5 pp. 527–538, doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929910277751
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