Kybernetes: Volume 39 Issue 4

New researches and developments

This paper aims to review current research and developments with particular reference to new research and development initiatives.

More on anti‐spam, history of chess, Russ Ackoff

The purpose of this paper is to review a recent electronic publication on the menace of spam and, related to previous work, look at the dangers the internet holds for children. A…

Not just Norbert

Although Norbert Wiener is justifiably granted the epithet “father of cybernetics”, a number of other engineers from a control or telecommunications background also turned to…

Social mechanisms in organizations: awakened from their Sarcophagi

In order to explain a phenomenon/problem, some of the mechanisms which elicit the phenomenon/problem must be clarified, since: “a goal of scientific research is to uncover reality…

Cybernetics of Tao

Taoist thought is not easily penetrable for Westerners, though it has growing importance with the globalisation of Chinese commerce. The purpose of this paper is to explore some…

Elements of a cybernetic epistemology: Adaptive systems that can develop system‐specific behavior

The purpose of this paper is to investigate necessary cybernetic structures that allow complex adaptive systems to develop system‐specific behavior.

Stochastic models for risk control programs of organizations

Risk control programs of modern complex organizations make extensive use of stochastic models. The purpose of this paper is to consider a class of stochastic models in severity…

A method for solving nonlinear differential equations

The purpose of this paper is to present a method for solving nonlinear differential equations with constant and/or variable coefficients and with initial and/or boundary…

On neutrosophic paraconsistent topology

Recently, F. Smarandache generalized the Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets and other kinds of sets to neutrosophic sets (NSs). Also, this author introduced a general…

Statics and dynamics of hierarchy

The purpose of this paper is to describe how ordered pairs representing related objects in static state are used to create hierarchical structures yielding rapidly increasing…

Review of data, text and web mining software

The purpose of this paper is to review and compare selected software for data mining, text mining (TM), and web mining that are not available as free open‐source software.

Parallelization of an ant‐based clustering approach

The purpose of this paper is to propose parallelization of a successful sequential ant‐based clustering algorithm (SABCA) to increase time performance.

First Announcement and Call for Papers

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