An anticipatory system is "... a system containing a predictive model of itself and/or its environment, which allows it to change state at an instant in accord with the model's prediction pertaining to a later instant." .
R. Rosen, Anticipatory Systems - Philosophical, Mathematical and Methodological Foundations, Pergamon Press, 1985, ISBN 0-08-031158-X.

Properties of Derived Scalar Anticipatory Systems 
Abstract   Preprint: PDF format  The final paper appears in CASYS'01 , 5th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois), AIP conference proceedings 627, pp 49-58,  2002

Scalar Weak Anticipatory Systems  (with Niall D Fitzgerald) 
Abstract  Preprint: PDF format  The final paper appears in CASYS'01 , 5th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois),  AIP conference proceedings 627, pp 85-94,  2002

Further Properties of Derived Scalar Strong Anticipatory Systems 
Abstract   Preprint: PDF format  The final paper appears in CASYS'03 , 6th International  Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois),  AIP conference proceedings 718, pp 219-227,  2004

Avoiding Extinction in a Managed Single Species Population Model by Means of Anticipative Control 
Abstract   Preprint: PDF format The final paper appears in CASYS'05, 7th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois), AIP conference proceedings 839, pp 273-281, 2006

An Investigation of the Effect of using Anticipation in a Technological Substitution Model
Abstract   Preprint: PDF format  The final paper appears in CASYS'07, 8th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois), AIP conference proceedings 1051, pp 166-167, 2008

On the Dynamics of an Incursion describing the Interactions between functionally differentiated Subsystems of a discrete-time Anticipatory System
Abstract   Preprint: PDF format  The final paper appears in  CASYS'09, 9th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (edited by D Dubois), AIP conference proceedings 1303, pp 74-83, 2010

Modelling Traffic Flow Management with Anticipative Control
Abstract  The paper was delivered at CASYS'09, 9th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems , Liege, Belgium, 3rd-8th August 2009