In the first place, the target audience includes tutors and lecturers preparing courses on cybernetics, control theory and systems science. The book is intended for theoreticians and practitioners, as well as for stu-dents, postgraduates and doctoral candidates. The author substantiates the topicality of elaborating a new branch of cybernetics, i.e., organization theory (O3) which studies an organization as a property, process and system. A new development stage of cybernetics (the so-called cybernetics 2.0) is dis-cussed as a science on general regularities of systems organization and control. The correlation of cybernetics with the philosophy and methodology of control, as well as with system theory and systems analysis is established.Ī detailed analysis focuses on the modern trends of research in cybernetics. Wiener to the present day) and the reasons of its ups and downs are considered. This book is a brief “navigator” across the history of cybernetics, its state-of-the-art and prospects.
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