The Magic Ring (Record no. 3018)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319053868 |
| -- | 978-3-319-05386-8 |
| 024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 10.1007/978-3-319-05386-8 |
| Source of number or code | doi |
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| Classification number | Q295 |
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| Classification number | QA402.3-402.37 |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | GPFC |
| Source | bicssc |
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| Subject category code | SCI064000 |
| Source | bisacsh |
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| Subject category code | TEC004000 |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 519 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mella, Piero. |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Magic Ring |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | by Piero Mella. |
| 260 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cham : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Springer International Publishing : |
| -- | Imprint: Springer, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XXVII, 597 p. 239 illus., 187 illus. in color. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 347 ## - DIGITAL FILE CHARACTERISTICS | |
| File type | text file |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Contemporary Systems Thinking, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1568-2846 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The Language of Systems Thinking for Control Systems -- The Ring: The General Structure of Control Systems -- The Rign Variety: A Basic Typology -- The Ring Completed: Multi-lever and Multi-objective Control Systems -- The Ring: Observation and Design -- The Magic Ring in Action: Individuals -- The Magic Ring in Action: Life Environments -- The Magic Ring in Action: Organizations -- The Magic Ring Explores Cognition and Learning -- Concluding Remarks: Toward a General Discipline of Control. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | This book presents a gradual path toward “educating” readers in understanding how Control Systems truly operate and in recognizing, simulating and improving them in all fields of activity. Starting from the hypothesis that knowledge of Control Systems is not only a technical fact but also represents a discipline – that is, “A discipline is a developmental path for acquiring certain skills or competencies. (…) To practice a discipline is to be a lifelong learner. You “never arrive”; you spend your life mastering disciplines.” (Senge, 2006, p. 10) – Piero Mella has set the objective of making Control Systems a topic that is, in a certain sense, simple and attractive by turning to the effective symbolism typical of Systems Thinking models and avoiding too technical and formal a treatment of the subject. Thus readers should know that this is not an engineering, physics, biology or economics text, nor a mathematics one either. Technical or mathematical tools are not necessary to construct Control Systems; instead the book adopts a highly simple and universal logic behind the notion itself of control process and the simple and universal action of the Control Systems that produce this process. The Magic Ring: Systems Thinking Approach to Control Systems is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 seeks to review the basic language of Systems Thinking and the models it allows us to create, while Chapter 2 introduces the control process, presenting the theoretical structure of four simple Control Systems we all can observe and manage. In Chapter 3 a general typology of Control Systems is proposed with examples taken from observations of reality. The view of Control Systems is broadened in Chapter 4 by introducing two important generalizations: 1. multilever Control Systems, with levers that are independent or dependent of each other; 2. multi-objective systems, with independent or interdependent objectives. Chapter 5 outlines the guidelines for recognizing, observing or designing Control Systems and presents the problems that arise regarding their logical realization, introducing the fundamental distinction between symptomatic and structural control. Chapters 6-9 undertake a “mental journey” through various “environments”, increasingly broader in scope, suggesting to the reader how to recognize therein Control Systems that, by their ubiquitous presence, make the world possible in all its manifestations. Finally Chapter 10 covers ideas about a Discipline of Control Systems and the human aspects of control. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Computer software. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Systems theory. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Physics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Engineering. |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Economics. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Systems Theory, Control. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Business/Management Science, general. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Complexity. |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| 773 0# - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | Springer eBooks |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783319053851 |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Contemporary Systems Thinking, |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1568-2846 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05386-8">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05386-8</a> |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | E-Books |
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