Kybernetes: Volume 18 Issue 5

Contemporary Cybernetics

Neural networks have been an important research area in cybernetics for many decades. Now, advances in technology have brought many projects to fruition and opened up many new…

Parallelism in Control

Kevin Warwick

A parallel structure is suggested for feedback control systems. Such a technique can be applied to either single or multi‐sensor environments and is ideally suited for parallel…

Abstract Inference Structures to Support Variable Rule Structures for Expert Systems

Lawrence J. Mazlack

Knowledge‐based systems have been successfully utilised in the develop‐ment of complex systems. In many cases, these systems have emphasised the need for techniques to integrate…

A Cybernetic Approach to Reduce Unemployment in Spain

Francisco Parra‐Luna, Javier Montero de Juan

Unemployment is one of the biggest problems in modern societies. A cybernetic approach is discussed which proposes the SOSISGEM model which integrates economic with social and…

Further Results for the Linear Fuzzy Controller

James J. Buckley

A fuzzy controller is considered which attempts to control a process which has multiple outputs and inputs, towards some set points. The fuzzification/ defuzzification procedures…

Communications: On a Proposal for the Creation of an International Network for Complexity Research

Francis Heylighen

This communication is published in two parts. The author believes that a new domain, emerging from the cybernetics and systems tradition, is defined: complexity research. The…