PROTOCOL
Charles François (2004). PROTOCOL, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2683.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2683 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
A register of the succesive states of a variable.
ASHBY introduced this notion in relation to the black box model. He wrote that the protocol could “… be regarded as a message that contains information about the box's nature” and added that “… the investigator's knowledge about the box, in any of its aspects, must be essentially a recoding of what is in the protocol: he may not claim more.
- “From this point of view, to discover something about the black box — something that has permanence — is to discover a constraint in the protocol” (1958, p.201).