Kybernetes: Volume 5 Issue 2

RECENT PROGRESS TOWARDS A THEORY OF TELEOGENIC SYSTEMS

A. LOCKER, N.A. COULTER

From the point of view of goals to be pursued, three kinds of system can be distinguished: (1) the teleonomic (or goal determined) system, which acts according to fixed goals, (2…

ACQUISITION OF KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT TRANSCENDENTAL ASSISTANCE: AN EXTENDED PIAGETIAN APPROACH

ROBERT R. TRAILL

Piaget's basic objective is seen as an attempt to explain how the individual and his evolutionary forbears can collectively gain practical mental‐models of the “real…

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS AND TARGET FUNCTION

CHRIS P. TSOKOS, A.N.V. RAO

1 INTRODUCTION Consider the stochastic control system of the form

ARRAYS FOR PROGRAMMING CHESS

G. ZIELIŃSKI

A computer program depends strongly on data structures processed by it. For time optimization it is often sufficient to change only the data structures. There are 5 parts to a…

SEMANTICS OF LISP AND THE ONTOLOGY OF FUNCTIONS

AMITABHA GHOSE

The formalization of recursive definition of functions in the programming language LISP is studied with respect to its ontological assumptions. It is shown that whereas the theory…

MULTIECHELON INVENTORY CONTROL SYSTEM WITH “DENSE” BRANCHES

G.B. RUBALSKY, I.A. USHAKOV

The paper considers a stochastic inventory control system consisting of a central store (CS) and several lower stores (LS). The demand at each of the lower stores forms a…

FUZZY‐FUZZY AUTOMATA

M. MIZUMOTO, K. TANAKA

Based on the concept of fuzzy sets of type 2 (or fuzzy‐fuzzy sets) defined by L. A. Zadeh, fuzzy‐fuzzy automata ate newly formulated and some properties of these automata are…

DISCRIMINANT DIAGNOSTICS WITH INCOMPLETE SYMPTOMATICS

V. YU. URBAKH

Diagnostics by means of the linear discriminant function X = ∑pi=1bixi requires a knowledge of all the p symptoms that are arguments of this function. However, some responses are…