Kybernetes: Volume 17 Issue 3

Contemporary Cybernetics

A great deal has been published recently concerning expert systems and the viability of using expert system shells and a useful feature published in Systems International, April…

Cybernetics at Reading — Retirement of Professor P.B. Fellgett FRS

The Department of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, UK, owed its origin to a far‐sighted initiative taken by the University in the 1960s in which the late Professor Robert…

Cybernetics: Retrospect and Prospect

P.B. Fellgett

A view of cybernetics both in the past and in the future is given. The origins and definition of cybernetics are considered and the importance and complementarity of control and…

Parallel String Matching Algorithms

D.J. Evans, S. Ghanemi

The string searching problem is central to many information retrieval and text editing applications. The Brute Force algorithm is inefficient in some cases and in this article…

Relationship Hierarchy for Picture Representation Using Entity‐Relationship Diagrams

Edward T. Lee

The entity relationship approach has been applied in many areas including that of picture representation. The hierarchical properties of relationship for pictorial representation…

Bayesian Decision Making with Previous Probabilistic Uncertainty and Actual Fuzzy Imprecision

María Angeles Gil

The traditional literature dealing with statistical decision problems usually assumes that previous information about an associated experiment may be expressed by means of…