PRINCIPIA CYBERNETICA WEB
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2621 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Johan BOLLEN (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) describes the Principia Cybernetica Project as a knowledge base for systems research. He writes:
- “The Principia Cybernetica Project (Template:Ency entity, founded in 1989, is devoted to the development of a complete and consistent cybernetic philosophy. The project's name refers to Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica, the work that laid the philosophical foundations for the science of mathematics as we know it.
Template:Ency entity, however, is not thought of as a closed, rigid set of axioms and definitions. Its basic architecture consistes of nodes, representing concepts and their definitions, and links, representing the associations between the concepts. Nodes and links form a dynamic and continuously evolving network, incorporating the knowledge that makes up the Principia Cybernetica.
Template:Ency entity was not designed as a specialized product of a few scientists, but rather as a collaborative development by many researchers in the field of systems science and cybernetics, each contributing their own viewpoint and expertise. Therefore, advanced collaboration and communication technologies are essential components.
Template:Ency entity aims to build an adaptive and growing body of philosophical knowledge by applying cybernetic tools and methods to the development of cybernetics itself. Template:Ency entity encourages multidisciplinarity and tries to integrate the different viewpoints that make systems science and cybernetics such a diverse field. Template:Ency entity investigates the process of collaborative knowledge. The research results will, in the spirit of the project, be fed back into the development of Template:Ency entity through improvements to software and infrastructure. Our most recent research has focused on dynamically adjusting the structure of a knowledge network so that information will become more easily and efficiently accessible. The idea is to develop learning rules and algorithms that can ensure the network's soundness when the variety of the nodes and links increases. Template:Ency entity aims to provide an information service to the cybernetics community. Accurate and up-to date information on the main issues of the cybernetics and systems domain should be readily available to as many people as possible.“
(Template:Ency entity Bulletin, p. 8-9, Dec. 1994)
Template:Ency entity can be reached through : http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be