Kybernetes: Volume 27 Issue 1

Contemporary systems and cybernetics

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include: A calculus of ethics for a systemic world, Biocybernetics…

Invited review article (C. Musès) ‐ Wiener’s paper not in the collected works: The history and prehistory of cybernetics

Reviews the proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress and includes the paper “The history and prehistory of cybernetics”, which is not included in the collected works.

A review of the proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress, including a paper not in the collected works

Reviews the proceedings of the Norbert Wiener Centenary Congress and includes the paper “The history and prehistory of cybernetics”, which is not included in the collected works.

Intelligent agent‐based information warfare advisor (“Bob‐in‐a‐box”)

An intelligent agent‐based information warfare advisor is being developed for the Strategic Crisis Exercise at the US Army War College. This paper will provide some background on…

Mixed Markov modelling of financial success: Empirical evidence with Swedish data

Discusses and empirically tests special cases of multiple‐chain mixed Markov latent class models with business data. The switches between negative and positive changes in…

The fundamental problem of an artificial intelligence realization

The formal relation between two phenomena that have no interaction is given as a fundamental problem. Linking Space and Linking Algebra are used for derivation of this relation…

Abstract neural automata

Considers neurons, neural networks and neural fields from the viewpoint of abstract automata. Introduces Abstract neural automata (ANA) to explain and to provide a mathematical…

Communications and forum: The basic wiring diagram of the brain

Considers the two main problems believed to remain in biology: the flow chart of man and all other living things, and the wiring diagram of the human brain. Outlines the tasks…

Questions concerned with feed‐back and feed‐forward cycles

Discusses different processes in nature and the questions that common observation poses for further research. Lists some of these in relation to feed‐back and feed‐forward cycles…

Pansystems: A Philosophy Unconforming to God’s Model

Fortran 95

Self‐Organizing Maps

Science on the Web: A Connoisseur’s Guide to over 500 of the Best, Most Useful, and Most Fun Science Websites

Special Announcements

First International Congress on Mathematical Models and Methods Applied to Biology and Medicine

European Neuroscience, Berlin, 1998

Cybernetics sites

Frank George - a personal appreciation

Announcements

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics

British Neuroscience Association Celebration Meeting

British Neuroscience Association

J.Z. Young (1907-1997)