Kybernetes: Volume 11 Issue 2

Contemporary Cybernetics

An announcement by Marconi Communications Systems Ltd. (U.K.) about a contract it has concluded with British Telecom for a Fibre‐Optic Video System provides an interesting comment…

CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS ANALYSED BY CONTROL AND SYSTEMS THEORY: (Part A. The Theory of Interdependence)

V.H. BRIX

At the Silver Anniversary meeting of the General Systems Research Society in 1979 several speakers showed acute disappointment at the lack of progress within recent years in the…

CYBERNETICS AND SOCIETY

C.V. NEGOITA

The problem of human systems is a difficult and fascinating one. The author believes that in future cybernetics will play an important part in helping to unravel this problem. The…

FUZZY PATTERN MATCHING

M. CAYROL, H. FARRENY, H. PRADE

Pattern‐directed inference systems (P.D.I.S.) are among the most largely used tools in A.I. to‐day in order to represent and exploit knowledge. Generally, P.D.I.S.'s use…

NUMERICAL RESOLUTION OF A RESPIRATION MODEL

J. BROCAS, Y. CHERRUAULT, A. GUILLEZ, C. FROMAGEOT

We demonstrate an efficient numerical method for the solution of partial differential equations arising from a model suggested by BROCAS and CHERRUAULT and completed by CHERRUAULT…

SKETCH FOR A DYNAMIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE

J.S. NICOLIS

One important issue that modern communication theory does not deal with is the physical substratum of information. We advance here the thesis that information is generated by the…

COMPLEXITY AS AN ELEMENTARY FACTOR IN CYBERNETIC BIOPHYSICS

Charles Bogdanski

Biophysics is considered as the physics of ultra‐complex systems. “Complexity” is defined on the levels of architecture, structure and form. The paper studies degrees of…