Kybernetes: Volume 10 Issue 3
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Contemporary Cybernetics
B.H. RUDALLIn a paper to be published in Cybernetics and Systems Research, IX (Published by Hemisphere Press, Washington D.C., 1981), Dr. Trappl of the Department of Medical Cybernetics, at…
BEAGLE—A DARWINIAN APPROACH TO PATTERN RECOGNITION
RICHARD FORSYTHBEAGLE (Biological Evolutionary Algorithm Generating Logical Expressions) is a computer package for producing decision‐rules by induction from a database. It works on the…
A FRAMEWORK FOR CHARACTERIZING THE LEARNING PROCESS OF A DATABASE
K.T. FUNGA framework based on the entropy concept for characterizing the learning process of a database is developed. Such a framework can prove to be useful not only in analyzing existing…
ON TOLERATING AUTOMATA
M.W. WARNERSuitable ways of putting tolerance structures onto automata are sought. Inertial tolerance on the state set is discussed, but for black box automata an observed or even inertial…
INTRODUCTION TO CYBERNETIC PHYSICS
C. BOGDANSKIAn attempt at unification of different groups of physical phenomena by use of cybernetic methodology in order to avoid a dualism in the formalism of Natural Self‐Regulating…
BIOCYBERNETICS—SOME REFLEXIONS
D.B. JAMESCybernetics has an important application in Biology, particularly in explaining how the brain might work. The brain can best be considered as two organs and not one, grey matter…
FUZZY SETS AND PROBABILITY
A. MUIRAn attempt is made to save the law of excluded middle in fuzzy set theory. This is done by mapping the sentences of axiomatic set theory to a Boolean algebra, prior to assigning…
EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF THINKING
JOHN B. KIOUSTELIDISAssociative memory mechanisms allow an explanation of the brains ability of intuition, i.e., its ability to relate phenomena, which, seemingly, are logically independent, and…
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici