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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 15 No 2 (1968), 137–161
ArticleK teoretickým otázkám aplikace kybernetiky v oblasti státu a práva
[Some Theoretical Aspects of the Application of Cybernetics in the Sphere of Government and Law]
Vladimír Vrecion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2026.22
published online: 10. 02. 2021
abstract
In his study, the author systematically discusses and formulates the fundamental theoretical and methodological questions of applying cybernetics and the related exact methods of study in the sphere of government and law. The author derived his theoretical and methodological arguments in particular from experience gained in the realization of a number of concrete projects of applying cybernetics and automation in the spheres of law and management. He defines cybernetics (in accordance with Liapunov) as a science studying the rules of complex systems of management and control. Such systems determine objects whose structure, elements, co-ordinates of elements, information and function may be defined. The overwhelming majority of phenomena (objects, processes) in the sphere of government and law have the character of complex systems of management and control and therefore belong within the sphere of cybernetic studies. The author systematically defines the sequence of the principal tasks of the cybernetic approach to the study of the systems of management and control (objects, processes) in the sphere of government and law. This sequence includes the following tasks: Macro-approach: (1) finding the streams of information important for the general functioning of the system, (2) determining the codes of information, (3) determining the function of the system, (4) study of the functioning of the system. Micro-approach: (5) defining the relevant elements of the system, (6) determining the relevant relations between the elements of the system, (7) algorithming of the system, (8) analyzing the system, (9) synthesis of the system, (10) study of the evolution of the system, (11) exact study of the reliability of the system. The author discusses in detail the content and method of realizing every individual task of the macro-approach and supplements the definition of every task with a definition of the exact methods (especially mathematical) adequate for solving the respective task. The explanation is supplemented with concrete examples of cybernetic study of phenomena in the sphere of government and law. The author discusses in detail the tasks involved in the micro-approach in a subsequent, separate study.
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