Kybernetes: Volume 35 Issue 6

Cybernetics and the trends in robotics developments 2004‐2008

Aims to review current trends in the development of robotics 2004‐2008, from a cybernetic viewpoint, and provide; data from the UNECE/IFR World Robotics Survey.

UK cybernetics society, medical cybernetics, cave art

The paper aims to review the website of the UK Cybernetics Society, with appreciation of its function in disseminating news, including its mention of the death of the…

Information security – an application of a systems approach

The paper aims to describe and discuss the establishment of customer care centres in Sweden with particular concerns about information security.

Emergence decision using hybrid rough sets/cellular automata

The aim is identifying and analyzing some well‐defined types of emergence where the paper uses ideas from machine learning and artificial intelligence to provide the model of…

EvoPOL: a framework for optimising social regulation policies

This paper aims to propose a novel computational framework called EvoPOL (EVOlving POLicies) to support governmental policy analysis in restricting recruitment of smokers. EvoPOL…

A cybernetic multiresolution system for disparity estimation in stereo vision

The aim is to obtain a dense and reliable disparity map from a stereoscopic pair under any luminosity condition. From the disparity map it is possible to obtain some information…

Regular grammars of L(MT): a language for ecological systems modelling (I) – part I

All models have in common that they encode experience and always involve signs, signals, syntax, semantics and an ability to decode and derive meaning from what is encoded…

A holistic frame‐of‐reference for modelling social systems

To outline a philosophical system of inquiry that may be used as a frame‐of‐reference for modelling social systems.

A virtual electronic trading system for business‐to‐business e‐commerce

Until recently, only large companies could afford to develop and maintain computer systems to automate their trading processes. These ad hoc solutions are expensive and preclude…

A sketch of a methodology for designing supportive information systems

The purpose of this work is to make a distinction between supportive and operative information systems. The overall aim is to find and argue for a methodology approach which is…

On measures of information content of grey numbers

To explore a more effective method to study the information content of grey numbers.

Optimal control of cancer chemotherapy model using the coupled Adomian/Alienor methods

This paper deals with the use of the combined Adomian/Alienor methods for solving the problem of optimal cancer chemotherapy model.

Ecology, environmentalism and system theory

To consider the links between ecology, environmentalism and system theory.

3rd International conference on mobile ad hoc and sensor systems

Awards for Kybernetes contributors

Technical reports: temporal databases in depth

Announcements

Mathematical modelling in sport

New appointments to the Editorial Advisory Board

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)