Kybernetes: Volume 32 Issue 9/10

Globalization and sustainability: the cynics, the romantics and the realists

Based on an address given to the second international conference on sociocybernetics the author gives a personal view of globalization and sustainability. He discusses…

The political cybernetics of organisations

Viable systems theory is a development of managerial cybernetics within a critical systems theory context. The theory not only addresses cybernetics, it also shows how politics is…

Emotion: the missing part of systems methodologies

This conceptual paper first examines the critical evolutionary stage of systems methodologies – from hard systems to soft systems, and elaborates their different focuses. This…

A hybrid architecture design for security monitoring via the Internet

We present the development of a Web‐based remote‐monitoring system as an attractive alternative to the manual task of security surveillance. The system has built‐in human motion…

Design of an incentive system for application in a creative organization

The present paper investigates an incentive problem (the method of providing incentives to members) in creative organizations, such as research and development departments, using…

A model for self‐organizing systems

Considers a conceptual model that leads to the notions of a “distance function” g(t) and that of a “controlled‐disturbance function” δ(t)=h(g(t)). Using these notions we begin a…

Adaptive passivation with time‐varying gains of mimo nonlinear systems

This paper addresses the adaptive passivation of multi‐input multi‐output (MIMO) non‐linear systems,with unknown parameters. The class of MIMO non‐linear systems considered here…

Determination of eigenmodes in microchip lasers by the Adomian decomposition method

In this paper, our aim is to determine the fundamental eigenfunction of a two nonlinear differential complex equation, which arises in microchip laser theory, using Adomian…

Does the balanced scorecard support organizational viability?

In this paper we assess whether the balanced scorecard (BSC) supports the necessary functions for organizational viability. To this purpose, we use the viable system model (VSM…

On choosing a goodness‐of‐fit test for discrete multivariate data

Goodness‐of‐fit test based on K_ϕ‐divergence between observed and theoretical frequencies are considered. The asymptotic chi‐square null distribution and three alternative…

Using raster quasi‐topology as a tool to study spatial entities

The study of spatial entities needs a model that is not only fully observable and controllable, but also computable. Euclidean topology on R² is a usually used tool for this…

Resolution of a capacitated transportation problem with four subscripts

The classical transportation problem is actually well known both in theory and numerical resolution. We are interested in the multi‐subscripts capacitated transportation problem…

System’s identity conservation requirements

Viable system model, developed by Stafford Beer, and nine level model by Jean Louis Le Moigne, are presented and analysed as ways of distinguishing systems. From the study of both…

Global optimization‐preserving operators

In this paper, some kinds of operators, defined on a class of real functions depending on a single real variable, preserving some fundamental properties for solving global…

Minimization of an energy function with robust features for image segmentation

In this work, we propose an approach to the model based on Markov random field (MRF) as a systematic way for integrating constraints for robust image segmentation. To do that…

A new approach to travelling wave solution of a fourth‐order semilinear diffusion equation

A decomposition method is implemented for solving travelling wave solutions of a fourth‐order semilinear diffusion equation.

Analysis of subsystem interactions

In systems theory, authors such as Klir, Miller, Yang, Lin and Ma, Backlund, etc. have developed different definitions of the system concept in function of both the type of…

Communications and forum: Homeostatics as a science of controlling contradictionsof various natures

Focuses on homeostatics which deals with the problems of maintaining dynamic stability of vital parameters, functions, rhythms, cycles and trends of development. The paper also…

Numerical solution of linear Fredholm and volterra integral equation of the second kind by using Legendre wavelets

Uses the continuous Legendre wavelets on the interval [0,1) in the manner of M. Razzaghi and S. Yousefi, to solve the linear second kind integral equations. We use quadrature…

Abstract neural automata on compact Riemannian manifold

By means of topological conjugate transformation, the previous theory of abstract neural automata (ANA) on d‐dimensional (d≥1) integer lattice is extended to compact Riemannian…

Variability of structure of abstract neural automata and the ability of thought

In the view of philosophy, a concept is the highest product of the human brain. Demonstrates abstract neural automata (ANA) – the more perfect of the brain's models have the…

Condolences

13th WOSC Congress – Future venue

Interdisciplinary initiatives

Syntegration event

American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) 2003 Conference

2003 Awards for Excellence

Cybernetics and systems in India

Internet commentary

Humans and Automation: System Design and Research Issues

Designing Sociable Robots

Fuzzy Relational Systems: Foundations and Principles

Announcements

The Hacker's Handbook – The Strategy Behind Breaking into and Defending Networks

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (UK)

World organisation of systems and cybernetics (WOSC)

Congratulations

Editorial

Universidad Norbert Wiener – Lima, Peru

The Emerald Research Fund Awards

Cybernetics and Systems in Romania

2003 Awards for Excellence

Conferences

2D Object Detection and Recognition: Models, Algorithms and Networks

The Compiler Design Handbook – Optimisation and Machine Code Generation

The Description Logic Handbook – Theory, Implementation and Applications

EMCSR 2004

Adaptive Modelling Estimation and Fusion from Data: A Neurofuzzy Approach