Editorial

Citation

Oussalah, M. (2005), "Editorial", Kybernetes, Vol. 34 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2005.06734iaa.002

Editorial

This special issue of Kybernetes journal presents extended and revised versions of some papers presented in the workshop of IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics UK and Ireland Chapter, which held in Reading in September 2003. For information about IEEE, SMC, UK&RI Chapter and its activities please visit our web sites: www.ieee.org and www.ieee.org.uk/smc.html.

The workshop focused on cybernetics intelligence, which includes, among others:

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  computational intelligence and its paradigms;

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  self-organizing systems;

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  adaptive systems;

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  learning mechanisms in control systems;

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  intelligent decision-making systems;

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  second-order cybernetics;

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  hybrid intelligent systems; and

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  current challenges and future paradigms.

The aspect of the second-order cybernetics that interacts with enactive perception and dynamic system theory has been investigated by Bishop and Nasuto. St Quinton has focused on linguistic machine intelligence and proposed four semantic categories that allow us to overcome ambiguity and confusion that arise in natural spoken language. From the modelling perspective, Oussalah has investigated the notion of bipolar reasoning and bipolar logic from probabilistic perspective and new results that ensure coherence between cognitive-map based interpretation and bipolar logic have been pointed out. The concept of clan and cooperative clan have been put forward by Griffiths in order to force agents to have some cooperative behaviour in a multiagent structure.

Two papers have been devoted to the field of intelligent robotics. Duffy and his colleagues explore the idea of one-mind-many-bodies metaphor as in the agent Chameleon work. While Amavasai and his colleagues describe the new findings regarding EU project on micro-robotics.

In the applications field, Tighe and her colleagues described a self-organizing fuzzy control applied to vehicle routine problems. The performances of the optimization algorithm have been pointed out. Patel, Mitchell and Warwick described a design and implementation of a multi-agent based network for the support of collaborative switching tasks.

Finally, Mac Giolla Bhríde, McGinnity and McDaid have investigated a genetic algorithm based approach, which incorporates a rule-based reasoning system that acts as a supervisory module to genetic algorithm.

We take this opportunity to acknowledge the efforts of all colleagues and sponsors who contributed to the conference, and members of the organising committee. We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of the reviewers who contributed to the conference. A special thanks to Professor B.H. Rudall – the Editor-in-Chief of Kybernetes journal – for accepting and encouraging this special issue. Finally, we would like to thank all the authors who contributed to this special issue and the reviewers for their thoughtful and insightful comments.

M. OussalahOn behalf of IEEE SMC UK & Ireland Chapter Executives,University of Birmingham, UK