Kybernetes: Volume 11 Issue 4

Contemporary Cybernetics

Automatic software systems are being developed. Many commercial organizations give little encouragement to their research groups who attempt to work in this area. There still…

MIND, BRAIN, STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

I. ALEKSANDER

To a certain extent this paper is a reassessment of the above statement. The reassessment consists of a deeper specification of the type of problem which one encounters when…

CYBERNETIC ALGORITHM DESIGN FOR FINITE DOMAINS

BUSH JONES, LESLIE JONES

A general model descriptive of many algorithms on finite domains is developed. Properties of the model are investigated. Systematic principles are presented for constructing an…

A STUDY OF THE CAUSES OF PLANNING FAILURES

TAKEHIKO MATSUDA, MASAAKI HIRANO

In this paper, we first explain our hypothesis describing the planning behaviour of an individual and an organization, which we have postulated elsewhere, in reference with the…

SHOULD A RELIABLE INFORMATION PROCESSOR BE CHAOTIC?

JOHN S. NICOLIS

Brain‐like structures have evolved by performing signal processing initially by minimizing “tracking errors” on a competitive basis. Such systems are highly complex and at the…

BANG‐BANG CONTROL OF A SECOND‐ORDER NON‐LINEAR UNSTABLE PLANT WITH SECOND‐ORDER NONLINEARITY

I. VAKILZADEH, A.A. KESHAVARZ

In this paper the design of a controller for a relay‐controlled second‐order non‐linear unstable plant with second‐order nonlinearity will be considered. The task of the…

METHOD OF AIRWAYS COMPRESSIBILITY IDENTIFICATION

H. FELKEL, M. JIŘINA, R. FEUEREISL

The authors describe phenomological and mathematical models of airways compressibility. A detailed demonstration is given of deprivation and practical results of the…

BINARY ANSWERS TO IMPRECISE QUESTIONS

RONALD R. YAGER

In constructing intelligent machines we must at times include the capability to perform precise actions in the face of imprecise information. Using fuzzy subset theory we show how…

SOME ASPECTS OF FUZZY DECISION‐MAKING

WITOLD PEDRYCZ

The paper deals with some problems of decision‐making by the use of fuzzy set theory. The application of different operators from a wide class of intersection connectives makes it…