Cybernetic Principles of Knowledge Development

A Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
Vienna, Austria, April 1994

Chairpersons:

F. Heylighen, Belgium
S. A. Umpleby, USA

Presentations:

"Autonomy and Knowledge Organization"
S. Le Peutrec, M. Courant

"The Intelligence of Ignorance in Self-Referential Systems"
D. Baecker

"Metacomputation as a Tool for Formal Linguistic Modeling"
R. Glüeck, A. Klimov

"Self-Organized Learning by GABEK with PC-Support"
J. Zelger

"A Metamodel to Interpret the Emergeñce, Evolution and Functioning of Viable Natural Systems"
E. Schwarz

"Towards an Informational Understanding of Knowledge"
A. P. Zeleznikar

"Fitness as Default: the Evolutionary Basis for Cognitive Complexity Reduction"
F. Heylighen

"Two Kinds of General Theories in Systems Science"
S. A. Umpleby

"An Objective Formalization of the Selectivity Principle Using the Weighted Distance of Formal Symbols"
J. Pik