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concept:regulatorregulator
Entity that acts on a system to steer it towards a desired state; central to the theorem.
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Thinkers (2)
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- W. Ross Ashbystudies
- Roger C. Conantstudies
Concepts (3)
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- Regulationrelated_toThe overarching problem domain: maintaining desired behavior or stability in dynamic systems through feedback or adaptive intervention.
- systemassociated_withThe regulated entity or process; includes air traffic, endocrine balances, money flows.
- good regulatorextendsA regulator that achieves effective control; defined implicitly by the theorem as one that is a model of the system.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Active maintenance and restoration of correct anatomical pattern; central to morphogenesis and regeneration.
- The act of directing a system's behavior; the objective of a regulator.
- The principle that systems can be controlled through models of their behavior; central to modern control theory and adaptive systems.
- A zoning rule requiring buildings to be a fixed distance from the road, often insensitive to local wholeness as in the Lighty house case.
- Theorem stating every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system.
- The central mathematical theorem proved/expounded in the chapter.