Kybernetes: Volume 8 Issue 1

Strapline:

The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences
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Table of contents

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

A LASER METHOD FOR DATA STORAGE Dr. George Castro and his colleagues of the Physical Science Department of IBM's San Jose Laboratory have patented a laser method of recording…

CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?

D. DUTTA MAJUMDER

The historical perspective of the emergence of cybernetics as the science of control, communication and computation in machines and living tissues, and integrated and complex…

CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?

M. ZELENY

After considering some ideas propounded in the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, the author discusses the concepts of “cybernetyka,” “tektology” and…

CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?: (INFORMATION AND THE UNITY OF GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY AND CYBERNETICS)

JAMES STEVE COUNELIS

Man has the propensity to seek, design, impose and maintain unities. These unities are at the interstice where man and his environment intersect. These unities are information…

CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?

D. STANLEY‐JONES

Cybernetics is unique in that it is the only calculus that is applicable to both material and immaterial systems. Provided only that two elements of a system can be linked by…

CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS—A UNITARY SCIENCE?

A.J. MAYNE

Some basic concepts of general systems theory are outlined. Some fundamental ideas of “unified concept philosophy” are presented, as a proposed new conceptual framework and…

ON THE UNITY BETWEEN CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY

T. GERGELY

This paper first sketches the most important properties of cybernetics and general system theory and their connections. In order to determine their relationship we then describe…

THE MODEL OF AN EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRIC FIELD OF A NEURON

I. DVOŘÁK

A mathematical model of the extracellular electric field of an active neuron is proposed under a set of simplifying assumptions. The basic assumption is that the electric field is…

RESOLUTION DES EQUATIONS D'UN MODELE DE LA RESPIRATION

Y. CHERRUAULT, A. GUILLEZ

Reprenant les equations d'un modèle d'échanges gazeux alvéolo‐capillaires établi par J. Brocas et Y. Cherruault, les auteurs montrent que l'on peut résoudre ces équations, trouver…

FUZZY SETS AT U.C.L.A.

J.A. GOGUEN, E.S. SHAKET

This paper is a brief summary of work on fuzzy sets being conducted at UCLA, with an emphasis on work from Goguen's Fuzzy Robot Users Group. There is a brief summary of earlier…

THE CHOICE OF POLICIES IN SOCIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS BY SYSTEM DYNAMICS: PRESENTATION OF A REAL CASE

J.A. DOMINGUEZ MACHUCA

Our paper is intended to show that System Dynamics can be a priceless tool for realizing long‐term models which will help to choose the appropriate policies in socioeconomic…

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ISSN:

0368-492X

Online date, start – end:

1972

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof. Dr. Gandolfo Dominici