EXPERIMENTALLY REGULATED EVOLUTION IN COMPUTER-AIDED SOCIETIES.
Abstract
A concept of instrumental automation is offered for a more universal extension of experimental method to help regulate the social evolution of computer-aided systems. The pressing need for an integrative philosophy of instrumental automation is developed from several vantage points. The widespread experimental lag in contemporary computerized systems is pointed out for applied experimental design, simulation, and the collection and analysis of digital data. The largely unrecognized, but pervasive presence of experimental testing at all system levels is highlighted by a taxonomic survey of testing. The advantages of regulated, longrange testing for accelerated evolution throughout successive generations of systems is sketched from manual to advanced computerized versions. It is asserted that growing problems in a computer-aided society should be settled less by authoritative fiat and more by the grass roots of society through self-corrective, in-field evolution from open experiments admitting provisional results subject to continual improvements. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0615719
Entities
People
- H. Sackman
Organizations
- System Development Corporation