Kybernetes: Volume 20 Issue 7

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

How Green is Cybernetics? At a recent conference of systems and cybernetics a delegate asked: How Green is Cybernetics? No‐one was quite sure what the question really meant. Did…

Cybernetics, Technological Barriers and Education

J. Rose

Cybernetics is a powerful unifying concept. It can break down the barriers existing within technology itself, as well as those dividing science from technology. But these barriers…

An Efficient Methodology for the Physical Sciences

G. Adomian, R.C. Rach, R.E. Meyers

The decomposition model has demon‐strated accurate and physically realistic solutions of systems modelled by non‐linear equations. Linear or determin‐istic equations become simple…

Medical Cyberlogics

Mark R. Garber, Igor A. Ushakov

Cybernetics is a branch of science which was originally based on the explanation of certain phenomena by reference to biology and medicine. Further development in cybernetics…

How to Achieve the Best in Life: Two Philosophers' Points of View

Edmond Nicolau

The views of two philosophers who have recently published books on Ethics are discussed by a distinguished cybernetician. The link between philosophy and cybernetics is examined…

Crime Control by Statistical Process Control

Bishan Lin

The implementation of a statistical process control (SPC) procedure in the setting up of a crime‐control monitoring system is considered. The SPC system can be viewed as a…