Kybernetes: Volume 38 Issue 6

Global research and development: some new initiatives

This paper aims to review current research and developments with particular reference to some global initiatives.

Requisite variety: more on Gaia

The purpose of this paper is to mention a set of suggestions for analysing the current financial crisis, but with reservations about the usefulness of one based on Ashby's…

The role of sociocybernetics in understanding world futures

The purpose of this paper is to set out some ideas about how sociocybernetics can contribute to understanding possible world futures. A central concept in cybernetics is…

Soft systems and research

This paper is written in response to the question “What developments are taking place in systems?” as a contribution to the November 2006 Cybernetics Conference. The paper is…

Migrating personality theories Part 1: creating agentic trait psychology?

Pluralities of personality schemas reside across different Maruyama universes suggesting incommensurability and isolation. Schemas may migrate across Maruyama universes given…

Web mining technologies for customer and marketing surveys

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the usefulness and results of applying web mining as extensions of data mining.

Using multi‐criteria decision aid to rank and select co‐branding partners: From a brand personality perspective

The purpose of this paper is to utilize the big five models of brand personality concept to explore potential co‐branding partners by employing the multi‐attribute utility theory…

Concurrent processing of mixed‐integer non‐linear programming problems

To discuss a new parallel algorithmic platform (minlp_machine) for complex mixed‐integer non‐linear programming (MINLP) problems.

Self‐referencing as socio‐scientific methodology in contrasting paradigms

The purpose of this paper is to critique Gödel's and Tarski's axiomatic approach in their theorems of incompleteness of the arithmetical system.

On various neutrosophic topologies

Recently, F. Smarandache generalized the Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and other kinds of sets to neutrosophic sets (NSs) and also defined various notions of…

Extracting order from chaos

The purpose of this paper is to advance research that portrays chaos in number theory. Classical and quantum physics, and lately pure mathematics and system that exhibit deductive…

Pansystems‐based fuzzy systems relations and clustering

Melting universality, quantification and relative computability into a meta‐synthesis, pansystems theory develops an investigation on W‐fuzziness and 0*‐fuzziness connected with…

Characterizing Cantorian sets by entropy‐like quantities

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the recognizability of Cantorian stochastic automata by generalized entropy‐like qualities.

HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Insights into Game Theory: An Alternative Mathematical Experience

Thinking on the Web: Berners‐Lee, Godel and Turing

Dynamic Linear Models with R

Announcements

5th National & International Conference

Professor Academician Manea Manescu – Bucharest, Romania

The History of Mathematics

Emerald Literati Network Awards for excellence 2009

Clinical Prediction Models: A Practical Approach to Development, Validation and Updating

Call for participation

38th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2009)

15th Congress of WOSC

Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies