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Download full textHeilprin, Laurence B. – 1972
The impact of cybernetics on information science occurs chiefly through the concepts of variety, the law of requisite variety, and theory of transformations. Through these it pervades every aspect of information science. However, other basic sciences such as physics, biology, psychology are in their spheres equally pervasive, and information…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Information Science, Information Theory, Models
Heilprin, Laurence B. – 1973
Search for an integrated, comprehensive theory of information science (IS) has so far been unsuccessful. Appearance of a theory has been retarded by one central constraint, the large number of disciplines concerned with human communication. Crossdisciplinary interdependence occurs in two ways: theoretical relation of IS phenomena to a given…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Information Dissemination, Information Science, Information Systems
Heilprin, Laurence B. – 1972
The literature of knowledge is a very large system in the cybernetic sense of intractibility to control. Improving access to it needs some simplifying theory. A step in this direction is a hypothesis constructed from basic concepts. These include cybernetic concepts of variety and requisite variety; a version of the mathematical concept of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Humanities, Information Science
