Cybernetics Oriented Programming (CYBOP) An Investigation on the Applicability of Inter-Disciplinary Concepts to Software System Development Christian Heller Cybernetics Oriented Programming (CYBOP) An Investigation on the Applicability of Inter-Disciplinary Concepts to Software System Development Ilmenau Cataloging-in-Publication Data Christian Heller. Cybernetics Oriented Programming (CYBOP): An Investigation on the Applicability of Inter-Disciplinary Concepts to Software System Development Ilmenau: Tux Tax, 2006 ISBN-10: 3-9810898-0-4 ISBN-13: 978-3-9810898-0-6 Information on Ordering this book http://www.tuxtax.de, http://www.cybop.net Written as Dissertation Supervisor 1: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ilka Philippow (Chair), Technical University of Ilmenau Supervisor 2: Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dietrich Reschke, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany Supervisor 3: Mark Lycett (PhD), Brunel University, Great Britain Submission: 2005-12-12; Presentation: 2006-10-04 Copyright c 2002-2006. Christian Heller. All rights reserved. Cover Illustration: TSAMEDIEN, D¨usseldorf Printing and Binding: Offizin Andersen Nex¨o,Leipzig/ Zwenkau Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ”GNU Free Documentation License”. Trademark Credits Most of the software-, hardware- and product names used in this document are also trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Donations Companies planning to publish this work on a grand scale are asked to notify the author <
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