Kybernetes: Volume 18 Issue 3

Obituary — Sister Stella Mary Toole O.P.

Over twenty years ago I received a surprising letter from an interested reader of Kybernetes. The writer was a member of the community of Dominican Contemplative Nuns at St…

Contemporary Cybernetics

At the Corporate Computer Security '89 Conference, held in London, UK, earlier this year there was a plea for a computer security code of practice to curb increasing industrial…

General Problems of Cybernetics: An Educational Viewpoint

Alex M. Andrew

The general problems of cybernetics were considered from an educational point of view in an address to the Convegno de Cibernetica Scolastica, in Messina, Sicily. To do this…

A VLSI Systolic Implementation of a String Pattern Matcher — Part II

D.J. Evans, S. Ghanemi

In Part I surveys of the architectural concepts involved in designing special purpose VLSI computing structures and systolic array, WARP and CHIP architectures and their…

A Neurocybernetic Model of Modal Co‐operative Decisions in the Kilmer‐McCulloch Space

A.E. Delgado, J. Mira, R. Moreno‐Diaz

Many genuine aspects of the high level behaviour of the nervous system (NS) can be understood in terms of co‐operative processes among neurons computing at the algorithmic level…

Communications: On the Phase Portrait of a Multistable System

Edmond Nicolau, A.T. Murgan, M.A. Pascadi, M.V. Pascadi

This communication highlights the study of the properties of a general second‐order nonlinear multistable system. Particular attention is directed to fixed points analysis and…

Towards a General Theory of Pattern Recognition

D.B. James

There are numerous applications in which pattern recognition is an important feature, but in the main the operator of the device used has devised by heuristic means a special…