COMPUTER-BASED METHODOLOGY FOR SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT SITE PRODUCTION AND REDUCTION SYSTEM
Abstract
Engineers, cyberneticians, and psychologists operationally use similar constructs in the study of systems and living organisms. If the operations performed in the study of constructs are equivalent, then the constructs themselves may be assumed equivalent. Properties exhibited by and methods used for studying living organisms can logically be applied to the study of systems. For systems, synthetic organisms, to learn as do their living counterparts, components similar to the nervous system must be built into them. A biologically modeled system capable of learning requires an afferent subsystem, a locus for cog nitive integration, an efferent subsystem, and an integral provision for feedback. As a computer program system SPARS (Site Production and Reduc tion System) contains an afferent or exercise subsystem and an efferent or evaluation subsys tem. Looking at SPARS as a training control complex, the afferent and efferent subsystems are related circularly to the locus for cognitive in tegration (the air defense System Training Mission) and to each other by means of system user feedback channels. In the larger sense SPARS functions as a training control complex. Using the design methodology developed in SPARS, synthetic organisms (systems) may be provided the capability to learn.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 09, 1963
- Accession Number
- AD0403384
Entities
People
- E. Newlands
- G. L. Grace
Organizations
- System Development Corporation