HISTORY DETERMINED
Charles François (2004). HISTORY DETERMINED, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1556.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1556 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
- “Attribute of systems whose behavior is specified or can be understood better by looking into their past history” (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.35).
According to KRIPPENDORFF: “In contrast to state determined systems, predictability of the future states of such systems improves when relying not only on their current state, but on a finite sequence of states preceeding it” (Ibid). He notes the relation to “higher-than-first-order Markov chains” and argues “that all history determined systems are incompletely observed state determined systems and that the recourse to history has heuristic value” (Ibid).