Kybernetes: Volume 8 Issue 2

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

AUTOMATION IN THE STEEL INDUSTRY The results of the rapid expansion in the fields of Process Control and Automation since the 1960's are now being seen in industrial applications…

CYBERNETIC MODELLING THROUGH HIERARCHICAL MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL

C. CARLSSON

A cybernetic model is one which greatly reduces the variety of the world situation that should be represented by the model, but the variety is reduced in a way which will allow at…

CYBERNETIC FORMULA DETERMINATION AND VERIFICATION

BUSH JONES, W.G. WALLER

The systematic determination and verification of formulas is considered in this paper. The approach is independent of theoretical considerations in a particular discipline, and…

A SMALL STORE PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION ESTIMATOR FOR INCOMPLETE DATA CLASSIFICATION

JOSEF KITTLER

In the paper the problem of designing a pattern recognition system for processing incomplete pattern vectors is considered. An efficient method of integrating the small core…

A SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL MICROSCOPIC CHARACTERISTICS OF NEURONS

P.P. NELSON

In order to obtain a universal description of neurons, we review the main experimental data in regard to gates, ionic channels and post‐synaptic pores. Some theoretical…

OBJECTIVE ELECTROCEREBRAL CORRELATES OF EXPECTANCY AND GUESSING IN NORMAL SUBJECTS

W. GREY WALTER

INTRODUCTION The history of computer applications to the problems of Neuro‐Cybernetics is a chequered one. Certainly, some problems that would have taken literally months—even to…

FLEETING MOMENTS

C.T. HELVEY

These three little essays were written with a degree of licentia poeticae, and I hope they do not offend those few, mentioned herein, who are still with us. The purpose for…

A BRANCH‐AND‐BOUND ALGORITHM FOR THE MULTISTAGE CONTROL OF A FUZZY SYSTEM IN A FUZZY ENVIRONMENT

J. KACPRZYK

In this paper, the problem of determining a maximizing decision in the multistage control of a fuzzy system in a fuzzy environment is considered. In the fuzzy system under…

SOFTWARE FEATURES FOR INTELLIGENT INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS

P. CORTI, G. GINI, M. GINI

The automation of complex handling and assembly operations can be achieved by the introduction of industrial robots, computer‐controlled and equipped with simple tactic sensors. A…