Means and ends of control

Morten Lind

doi:10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398406

Means and ends of control

Morten Lind (Invited author)

Department of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Means-end analysis plays a significant role in cognitive engineering and has been successfully applied in several work domains, usually in the form of Rasmussens abstraction hierarchy. However, work domains with embedded controls create problems and modifications of the abstraction hierarchy has been proposed to circumvent the problems. But embedded controls is a deep problem for means-end analysis in general and not only for instances like the abstraction hierarchy. It is pointed out that means-end analysis is currently not used in control engineering but should be used to clarify modelling assumptions. Means-end analysis also lacks a proper definition of the control concept. It is proposed that control is defined as a binary relation that assign functional roles to subsystems. This control concept leads to distinct but entangled process and control hierarchies. It is argued that the problems of embedded control can be resolved by an analysis of the relations between the two types of hierarchy. Illustrative modelling examples are included.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE Conf. Systems Man and Cybernetics
Volume	1
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2004
ISBN (Print)	0-7803-8566-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398406
Publication status	Published - 2004
Event	IEEE Conference Systems Man and Cybernetics - The Hague, Holland Duration: 1 Jan 2004 → …

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Conference	IEEE Conference Systems Man and Cybernetics
City	The Hague, Holland
Period	01/01/2004 → …

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Lind, M. (2004). Means and ends of control. In IEEE Conf. Systems Man and Cybernetics (Vol. 1). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.2004.1398406

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