Kybernetes: Volume 9 Issue 4

Strapline:

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

ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS OF INFORMATION, DECISION AND CONTROL, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LARGE‐SCALE POLICY AND PLANNING

HAJIME MYOKEN

This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy and planning of large‐scale dynamic systems are approached from the cybernetic principle, as can be viewed in the interplay of…

A SYSTEM‐THEORETICAL APPROACH TO DATABASE SYSTEMS

A.M. TJOA, R.R. WAGNER

The various aspects of database systems are formalized. An information base is described as a projection of the real world which follows certain semantical constraints. The…

THE DECOMPOSITION OF TOLERANCE AUTOMATA

A. MUIR, M.W. WARNER

Tolerance automata are defined and a decomposition theory for such entities is sought. It is shown that two major procedures of the classical algebraic theory produce difficulties…

ECOLOGICAL RATIONALITY BEYOND CYBERNETICS

BARRINGTON NEVITT

Whereas analogical relations characterized preliterate rationality, logical connections mark literate reasoning. As we enter post‐literate cultures via instant electric media…

WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

J. BENEŠ

Major past achievements of Cybernetics are: the theory of servomechanisms and the information theoretical approach in molecular biology. Aspects of energy are treated in…

WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

R.H. ANDERTON

Cybernetics, the attempt to recreate mental phenomena in terms of physical action, is considered in three stages corresponding to the three decades since 1948. The first decade…

WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

A.M. ANDREW

The meaning and connotations of cybernetics are reviewed with the conclusion that complex adaptive systems are the central theme. Formal and informal approaches are contrasted and…

WHITHER CYBERNETICS— PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS

H.‐G. LAUENROTH

The object of research of cybernetics is represented in the concrete field of modelling processes and systems of control and information in economics; it is described in graphic…

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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