Kybernetes: Volume 35 Issue 1/2

Transcending organisational autism in the UN system response to HIV/AIDS in Africa

To encourage the ongoing transformation of the UN system by conceptualising leadership challenges within a cybernetics/systems paradigm.

Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management

To examine the paradoxes of optimisation in public service management.

A cybernetic re‐evaluation of socio‐economic development programs

To explore the usefulness of the cybernetic approach to support development programs by offering a theoretical framework that helps us to re‐understand development and measuring…

Improving national accounts

To present empirical and theoretical evidence that our national accounts are improper for model applications. To propose a design for a micro foundation of the basic economic data…

Identity: the paradoxical nature of organizational closure

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of organizational closure as developed by Stafford Beer in his viable systems model, defined as System 5.

Momentum and control: a dynamic of democracy

The purpose of this paper is to show how the application of cybernetic principles to governance and democracy shows dangerous gaps in control due to a lack of appreciation of…

Governance of economic transitions: a case study of Ukraine

Ukraine has had to change in ten years from a strong centrally controlled communist economy to a market economy. It has not been successful. The purpose of this paper is to…

A cybernetic diagnosis of Sri Lanka's 2002‐2003 peace negotiations

This paper identifies meta‐level considerations long ignored in Sri Lanka's peace negotiations.

Identity: articulating cybernetics and sociology

To establish the concept of identity as the bridging concept of cybernetics and sociology.

An ABC of British higher education

This paper marks the centenary year of W. Ross Ashby (1903‐1972), one of the founders of the interdisciplinary subject of cybernetics. Its purpose is to Ashby's cybernetics to…

Towards productive and sustainable forms of interaction in governance

A central question of governance in our time is how actors in complex, diverse and dynamic contexts can be harmonized, respecting the needs and limitations of their contexts. New…

A systems approach to analysing sub‐state conflicts

The purpose of this paper is to provide a more holistic approach to analysing the impact of all the behaviour of a conflict's participants its overall dynamics, using the example…

HIV/AIDS: a threat to the viability of the societies it attacks

To provide a new understanding of the AIDS epidemic and its implications in order to improve the responses from governments and the development community.

Contemporary systems and cybernetics: Innovative applications

The purpose of this paper is to introduce innovative systems that are currently being developed worldwide. They include reviews of Artificial life machines; Poker‐playing “bots”;…

Cybernetics and systems on the web

The purpose of this paper is to describe grids, an important development of internet‐like communication, with references to internet sources of additional information. The aim is…

Dark Hero of the Information Age: in Search of Norbert Wiener the Father of Cybernetics

International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

Analysis and Decision Making in Uncertain Systems

From Being to Doing: the Origins of the Biology of Cognition

Message to the 13th Congress of WOSC delivered by Professor R. Vallée from Dr Alex Andrew, Director-General of WOSC

Cybernetics and public administration: special issue

Conference reports

15th International Conference on Systems Science, Wroclaw University of Technology 7-10 September 2004 – WOSC president’s address

The early days

Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers

Open Process Frameworks - Patterns for the Adaptive e-Enterprise

Handbook of Learning and Approximate Dynamic Programming

Announcements

The Eleventh IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

13th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC Congress Report by the President, Professor R. Vallée

The Second International Workshop on Analysis and Numerical Approximation of Singular Problems

Brief address to the 13th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems (July, 2005)

Cybernetics and public administration

Mathematical Education of Engineers V

Address presented by Professor B.H. Rudall, Vice-President WOSC/Director of the Norbert Wiener Institute and Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes

Awards for Excellence

UK Cybernetics Society 30th Annual Conference Developments in Cybernetics

Sixth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems

Learning with Locker: an appreciation

Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic

From P2P to Web Services and Grids - Peers in a Client/server World

Optimisation Globale: Théorie Des Courbes α-denses

28th International Conference on Software Engineering

The 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Summaries of addresses presented at the opening ceremony of the 13th WOSC Congress 2005

35th Annual Conference – 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2006)