Kybernetes: Volume 12 Issue 2

Contemporary Cybernetics

The recent copy of the ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 14, 3, 1982, deals with some of the problems of the “User‐Interface”. All who use computer systems, and particularly the…

ON A COMPUTER‐BASED THEORY OF STRATEGIES

NICHOLAS V. FINDLER

Some of the objectives and working tools of a new area of study, tentatively called Theory of Strategies, are described. It is based on the methodology of artificial intelligence…

RESOLUTION OF AMBIGUITIES IN CARTOONS AS AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE ROLE OF PRAGMATICS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING BY COMPUTERS

L.J. MAZLACK, N.M. PAZ

Newspaper cartoons can graphically display the results of ambiguity in human speech; the result can be unexpected and funny. Likewise, computer analysis of natural language…

AXIOMATIC DERIVATION OF THE MUTUAL INFORMATION PRINCIPLE AS A METHOD OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE

T.G. AVGERIS

The Mutual Information Princip le (MIP) has already been used in various areas, as a generalization of the Maximum Entropy Principle (MEP), in the very common situation where our…

CYBERNETIC ANTHROPOPHYSICS AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

C. BOGDANSKI

The paper begins with a description of some cybernetic aspects of Anthropophysics. This is concerned with a formal treatment of man's system under both its possible states: The…

ALGORITHMS FOR FINDING CHOMSKY AND GREIBACH NORMAL FORMS FOR A FUZZY CONTEXT‐FREE GRAMMAR USING AN ALGEBRAIC APPROACH

EDWARD T. LEE

Algorithms for the construction of the Chomsky and Greibach normal forms for a fuzzy context‐free grammar using the algebraic approach are presented and illustrated by examples…

PRESUPPOSITION IN BINARY AND FUZZY LOGICS

RONALD R. YAGER

We introduce a four‐valued logic that includes, in addition to true and false, the values unknown and non‐existent. We introduce the idea of presupposition in fuzzy logic and then…