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 Emergeńce, 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