Scientific Basis of Management and Cybernetics Methodologies Integration

Abstract

The problem of integrating management methodologies and cybernetics to improve the efficiency of proactive management of socio-cyber-physical systems (SCPS) is described in a meaningful and formal way. It is shown that this problem belongs to the class of problems of multi-criteria dynamic structural and functional synthesis of the SCPS appearance and the formation of appropriate programs for managing their functioning and development. At the same time, the constructive definition of the necessary control actions that ensure limited self-organization and controlled instability of the SCPS lies in the path of ensuring the dynamic correspondence of the variety of states of both the external environment and the corresponding control system (CS) of the SCPS. As a methodological basis for integrating management theory and cybernetics, the authors propose the scientific foundations of neo-cybernetics. As the basic concepts in the developed methodology, the concepts of complex modeling, proactive intellectual management and control are proposed. Neo-cybernetics methodological basis development required from the report’s authors to move to a fundamentally new (compared to classical approaches) level and technologies of management processes organization, specifically to the level of complexity control. In order to implement this control concept two directions are suggested — to narrow external environment variety impact on SCPS and to expand variety of the control impact on SCPS.