Re: Biological Analogies in Manufacturing

[Paul Johnson]

Dear Vladimir:
Thanks for pointing out that link. I've not digested it, but it is surely
a "big picture," isn't it?

Paul Johnson

On 21-Feb-98 Vladimir Jojic wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Tony Bigbee wrote:
> 
>> I also seem to remember Glen Ropella proposing some kind of control
>> theory to enable control of hierarchical complex systems.  Glen, care to
>> restart this thread? 
> 
> I am not familiar with what Glen said about control systems, but there is
> a group of people (Control Systems Group) that are interested in
> Perception Control Theory. PCT says that people behave as hierarchies of
> control systems, trying to maintain their perceptions of world on a 
> certain level, by suppressing disturbances. 
> 
> Take a look at demos and texts at:
> http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/csg/
> 
> Regards,
> Vladimir
> 
> --
> Vladimir Jojic
> Department of Computer Science
> Faculty of Mathematics
> University of Belgrade
> 
> 
> 
> 
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