Invited paper, to published in: Proceedings of the 1988 Annual Conference of the Cybernetics Society (London). BUILDING A SCIENCE OF COMPLEXITY Francis HEYLIGHEN1 ,2 ABSTRACT. It is argued that in order to solve complex

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• Cybernetics
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Draft paper, version: April 12, 2002, to be submitted to: The Information Society Complexity and Information Overload in Society: why increasing efficiency leads to decreasing control Francis HEYLIGHEN

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• State functions
• Cybernetics
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• Control theory
• Holism
• Ephemeralization
• Friction
• Entropy
• Information
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Heylighen F[removed]): "A Structural Language for the Foundations of Physics", International Journal of General Systems 18, p[removed]A Structural Language for the Foundations of Physics FRANCIS HEYLIGHEN

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• Constructible universe
• Ordinal number
• Quantum logic
• Dimensionless physical constant
• Function
• Abstraction
• Net
• Predicate
• Ordinal arithmetic
• Mathematics
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• Logic

in: R.A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Physical Science & Technology (3rd ed.), (Academic Press, New York, [removed]Cybernetics and Second-Order Cybernetics Francis Heylighen

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• Knowledge
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• Management cybernetics
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to be published in: Kybernetes[removed]or[removed]Bootstrapping knowledge representations: from entailment meshes via semantic nets to learning webs Francis HEYLIGHEN

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• Cybernetics
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• Gordon Pask
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Stimuleren van geluk en sociale vooruitgang: een libertair paternalistische benadering Francis Heylighen ECCO, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Krijgskundestr. 33, 1160 Brussel, Belgium

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Heylighen F[removed]): "Coping with Complexity. Concepts and principles for a support system", Systemica 8, part 1 (special issue on Mutual Uses of Cybernetics and Science, edited by Glanville R. & de Zeeuw G.), p[removed].

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• Systems science
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• Francis Heylighen
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Design of a Hypermedia Interface Translating between Associative and Formal Representations Francis HEYLIGHEN* PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium ABSTRACT. It is argued that in orde

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• Cognitive architecture
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• C dynamic memory allocation
• Cognition
• Computing
• Adaptive educational hypermedia
• Adaptive hypermedia
• Human–computer interaction
• Software
• ACT-R

in: The Cybernetics of Complex Systems - Self-organization, Evolution and Social Change, F. Geyer (ed.), (Intersystems, Salinas, California, 1991), p[removed]COGNITIVE LEVELS OF EVOLUTION: from pre-rational to meta-ratio

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• Systems theory
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• Evolution
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• Valentin Turchin
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• Principia Cybernetica
• Science
• Systems science
• Cybernetics

Internal Report, Center "Leo Apostel", Free University of Brussels, 1999 (© Heylighen & Dewaele, 1999) Formality of Language: definition, measurement and behavioral determinants FRANCIS HEYLIGHEN* & JEAN-MARC DEWAELE**

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• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Style
• Register
• T–V distinction
• Ambiguity
• Expression
• Indexicality
• Regular expression
• Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Grammar