Enterprise Decision Management? How about State Decision Management?

This is interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/world/americas/28cybersyn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=americas&pagewanted=print and http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2003/sep/08/sciencenews.chile

Very interesting for me since I work in decision management, and Chile is where I come from. I had seen mentions of this in the past (hence my sudden recollection of it during this sleepless night) in Andreseen's blog. Wikipedia has a summary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn) that mentions usage of Bayesian filtering although does not insist on the learning and adaptive aspects.

It also refers to this: http://www.williambowles.info/sa/FanfareforEffectiveFreedom.pdf - which I really do not know what to make of. It brings me back to my early days in Engineering school when I was studying what we used to call "Automatique" and was all about adaptive control. But applied to social and economic matters at the scale of a country!?

On the other hand, this lecture on cybernetics by Beer is intriguing: http://lispmeister.com/downloads/Stafford-Beer-forty-years-of-cybernetics-lecture.wma (pretty big)

So it turns out that Chile does not just do wine and pisco (sorry Peru).