Kybernetes: Volume 5 Issue 1

A COMPUTERIZED APPROACH FOR ASSIGNING WORKER SKILLS TO TASK REQUIREMENTS

A. RAOUF, W. MANNEY

Casual inexcused absenteeism is considered to be one of the major contributing factors for increased operating costs for companies which have work flowing through a group of…

TOWARD A SYSTEMS THEORY OF UNEQUAL EXCHANGE, UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIPS

THOMAS BAUMGARTNER, WALTER BUCKLEY, TOM R. BURNS

This paper proposes a systems framework for the analysis of economic exchange and development. Exchange is examined in the context of a social system in which actors have…

A FORMULATION OF FUZZY DECISION PROBLEMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO AN INVESTMENT PROBLEM

HIDEO TANAKA, TETSUJI OKUDA, KIYOJI ASAI

Although the decision‐making problem at the lower level is generally well‐defined, the decision‐making problem at the higher level would not contain the detail. Much of…

COMPETITION IN NATURE AND THE LOGNORMAL MODEL

JOHN C. PAPAGEORGIOU

The different applications of the lognormal model in describing the distribution of various populations from both the biophysical and socioeconomic spheres are reviewed. A…

ARCHIVES FOR THE SYSTEMIC SCIENTIST

DANIELLE MIHRAM, G. ARTHUR MIHRAM

Accepting the proposition that computerized models are capable of addressing the complex, systemic problems which confound us, one is led to enquire whether an “International…

ABSTRACT PROGRAMMING

DEWI BRENNIG JAMES

Abstract programming attempts to extract the principles underlying problem solving and therefore approximate more nearly to a unified behaviour theory. A distinction is made…

COMPUTATION GRAPHS

MICHAEL A. BAUER

The notion of a computation graph is introduced. A computation graph is a rooted, directed graph whose nodes are labelled by statements (instructions) to be executed. The…