Kybernetes: Volume 11 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

Computer‐Aided Design (CAD) is now no longer a novelty. It has been used successfully in many major projects in the United Kingdom and in many parts of the world. The use, for…

CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

A.M. ANDREW

The aims of cybernetics and of system research are shown to embody a strong bias towards biological studies. Cybernetics subsumes the ideas of “experimental epistemology”, a study…

CYBERNETIC AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

GER LOU

Uncertainty as a whole in our knowledge about reality is stressed. Redundancy as the factor to counterbalance the impact of uncertainty as a whole, is discussed and recognized in…

CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES

V.K. BYKHOVSKY

SUMMARY An attempt is made to reveal the prospects for an interaction between cybernetics and the natural sciences on the basis of molecular cybernetics, a synthetic discipline…

STATE GOALS GROUPS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

A.G. KEFALAS, A.W. SMITH

The Seventies have experienced a proliferation of citizen, city, state, national and international groups aiming at designing alternative futures for a better society. With few…

INFORMATION OBTAINED BY MEANS OF AN OBSERVATION PROCESS SUBJECT TO RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS

COLETTE PADET

In this paper, we propose to analyse the incidence of the limitations inherent to a process of observation τ on the entropy of a statistical continuous set of events observed by…

COST AUTOMATA, OPTIMALITY AND TOLERANCE

M.W. WARNER

A simple adaption of Dijkstra's algorithm for finding a minimum weight path on a weighted directed graph serves to solve the optimal control problem posed by Arbib for tolerance…

A THERMODYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE TRANSPORT AND EXCHANGE OF BODIES DISSOLVED IN BLOOD

A. GUILLEZ

This paper presents here a simulation model, the circulatory system being modelled on a heat installation. This installation is a heating system based on a distribution of…