Kybernetes: Volume 24 Issue 9

The ecology of the noosphere: where the ecological movement falls short

P.R. Masani

The ecological movement has fallen short in ignoring the earth’s noospheric layer (dealt with in the second section) and the fact that the life‐destroying interactions stemming…

Self‐organization via the creation of constraints: an information theoretic approach

Guy Jumarie

Organizing systems should have a decreasing informational entropy, and a meaningful modelling of this property is provided by the approach via the maximum entropy principle, in…

Applications of fuzzy languages to intelligent information retrieval

Edward T. Lee

Applies fuzzy languages to the retrieval of geometric figures, chromosome images and leukocyte images. Presents procedures for answering composite fuzzy queries such as “retrieve…

Some topological properties of sets in information systems

Yongli Li, Qinling Zhang, Jihui Zhang

Continues the discussion about the topological properties of sets in information systems and investigates the boundary and the rough sets defined on the a‐discrete topology.