Kybernetes: Volume 28 Issue 8

Contemporary systems and cybernetics

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include: Scientific research and warfare; Cybernetics and psychology;…

Internet commentary

Comments on the Internet, giving details of new facilities and provisions that are of specific interest to systemists and cyberneticians. They include: Computers for Net access…

On testing hypotheses with doubly censored data

Methods of testing simple hypotheses about lifetime parameters from doubly censored data are given on the basis of the maximum likelihood principle. It is shown that, under the…

Cybernetics of solvability applied to problem‐solving

The study aims at defining solvability at the cross‐roads of cybernetics and problem‐solving. The cases of solvability being focussed on are generated by intervention, and as a…

Danger of development of a global catastrophe and the need for new information concepts

Discusses the conjecture that mankind is moving towards global crises and catastrophes because of the lack of strategies and policies to deal with information. Sees the need for…

Abstract neural automata: Ergodicity of evolution of genetico‐variable structure

The theory of abstract neural automata has been proposed previously. Believes that in studying change of the structure of abstract neural automata, genetico‐variable structure…

Communications and forum: On fuzzy systems: part II

Provides a personal view of the development of the theories and applications of fuzzy systems which were first introduced in the 1960s. Details the interrelationships between the…

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

Conferences and congresses

New ACM Press Book released

Optimisation - Mèthodes locales et globales

Research Institute of the Austrian Society of Cybernetics Studies (ÖFAI)

Technical reports

Numerical mathematics

Overview of software and services

Discrete Dynamics Lab: 1992-1999