Kybernetes: Volume 28 Issue 4
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Cybernetics, the conscience of science Studies of interactions between physical and sociopolitical feedbacks and the theory behind them
C. MusèsCybernetics is considered in its fundamental aspect of a unique master science embracing the concepts of the causation and precipitation of consequences, and hence entraining…
Second order cybernetics ‐ implications in real life
A. GhosalThe second order cybernetics rests on the promise that the system definition includes the observer/researcher as a key element. While the first order cybernetics is mainly…
Modelling expert resource management systems
Swamy Kutti, Brian Garner, Amitava GhosalThe data structuring mechanisms provided by the current problem solving environment have been found to satisfy modeling the problem solutions for common decision making processes…
Elements for a theory of fractals in dynamic systems involving human factors
Guy JumarieThe theory which is addressed in this paper is that we should not be surprised to come across fractals in the analysis of some dynamic systems involving human factors. Moreover…
New results of convergence of Adomian’s method
N. Himoun, K. Abbaoui, Y. CherruaultNew results about convergence of Adomian’s method are presented. This method was developed by G. Adomian for solving non‐linear functional equations of different kinds. New…
Control of the first‐line human defence system An autocatalytic model
Bonawentura KochelA control of the first‐line human defence system, using mechanisms analogous to specific and non‐specific (parametric) triggering of phagocytosis, is proposed on the basis of an…
Competing transformation models: Part I: Methodology – Part II: Empirical results
Ralf Östermark, Jaana AaltonenThe paper is presented in two parts. The first is concerned with the methodology of the competing transformation models and the second details the results of the empirical tests…
A suggested hemispheric basis for the guided search model
Uri FidelmanExperimental findings not suiting the guided search model (GSM) of Cave and Wolfe (1990) and Wolfe (1994) and the modified guided search model (mGSM) of Efron and Yund (1996) are…
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0368-492XOnline date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici