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This is a nice box (below), but it implies network theory is some subcategory of cybernetics. I think that network theory is actually much wider than this, even if historically it grew out of cybernetics. --stochata 2 July 2005 07:23 (UTC)
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General subfields and scientists in Cybernetics |
| K1 |
Polycontexturality, Second-order cybernetics |
| K2 |
Catastrophe theory, Connectionism, Control theory, Decision theory, Information theory, Semiotics, Synergetics, Sociosynergetics, Systems theory |
| K3 |
Biological cybernetics, Biomedical cybernetics, Biorobotics, Computational neuroscience, Homeostasis, Medical cybernetics, Neuro cybernetics, Sociocybernetics |
| Cyberneticians |
William Ross Ashby, Claude Bernard, Valentin Braitenberg, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Gordon S. Brown, George S. Chandy, Joseph J. DiStefano III, Heinz von Foerster, Charles François, Jay Forrester, Buckminster Fuller, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Francis Heylighen, Erich von Holst, Stuart Kauffman, Bradford Keeney, Sergei P. Kurdyumov, Niklas Luhmann, Warren McCulloch, Humberto Maturana, Horst Mittelstaedt, Talcott Parsons, Gordon Pask, Walter Pitts, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Robert Trappl, Valentin Turchin, Francisco Varela, Frederic Vester, John N. Warfield, Kevin Warwick, Norbert Wiener |
I couldn't find any info on Google to back this up, but I'm currently attending Northwestern and the concensus among professors here seems to be that Prof. Luis Amaral is the founder of Network Theory. Anyone care to back me up on this? --jp3z
[edit] You've got to be kidding me...
Network theory is a stub? That is sad. I'll try to improve it if I can. Sr13 03:44, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
