Kybernetes: Volume 5 Issue 4

THE ARCHITECTURE OF REQUISITE VARIETY:: An Empirical Application of Managerial Cybernetics to the Organization of Socio‐Economic Enterprises and their Information‐for‐Control Systems (Part 2)

E.A. LOWE, A.M. TINKER

In the first part of this article the authors constructed an empirical model of the management control problem using cybernetics and general systems theory to “order” a variety of…

INFORMATION AND PATTERN

D.A. BELL

A concept of very general human interest is that of pattern which may not be amenable to the communication engineer's measure of “information”. The ideas of structure and…

A NOTE ON CAUSALITY AND MODELS

D. MILNER

An argument is given that a purely deductive logic is not capable of modelling the process of perception, since perception relies on some method of inference of the (causal…

A PLANNING SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT APPLIED TO ROUTE SELECTION

JAMES E. DOOLEY, ROSS T. NEWKIRK

The authors describe a computer‐based planning system which can be used to find continuous near‐linear routes for utilities subject to numerous constraints. A major difficulty…

ANTICIPATING FATE: BEYOND FEEDBACK TO FEEDFORWARD BY PROCESS PATTERN RECOGNITION

BARRINGTON NEVITT

Having substituted abstract Nature for actual existence, we vainly strive to reduce percepts to concepts and the simultaneous harmonies of living to the sequential logic of…

ON DARWINIAN AND NON‐DARWINIAN EVOLUTION

GEORGE C. THEODORIDIS, ERNST O. ATTINGER

Quantitative consideration of the operation and evolution of the information‐processing system that constitutes the terrestrial biosphere indicates that non‐Darwinian evolutionary…

STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF SYNAPSES AND CALCULATION OF CONDITIONS OF POTENTIAL PROPAGATION

A. KOTOVA, I. ASRAROV, Yu. ANTOMONOV

The system of integrated equations was simplified for the stationary conditions of ion movement velocity. Several values of the synapse diameters have been chosen for the…

THE RATE DISTORTION THEORY AND PROBABILITY MODELS

NICOLAOS S. TZANNES

The Rate Distortion Theory is a branch of the Information Theory applicable to the case when the entropy of the source exceeds the capacity of the Channel. A rate distortion…