Kybernetes: Volume 11 Issue 3

Contemporary Cybernetics

A recent report by Patrick G. Skelly of the ACM Standards Committee outlines some of the reasons why the ACM has asked that the Programming Language Ada specification is not given…

CURRENT SOCIAL PROBLEMS ANALYSED BY CONTROL AND SYSTEMS THEORY: (Part B. Bureaucracy and Politics)

V.H. BRIX

A cybernetic model of the interaction between two systems deals in more detail with the concept of interdependence of the first paper. Applications of the model are then reviewed…

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HIERARCHY

C. SCHOLZ

Hierarchy is a concept which has been in use in General System Theory since Bertalanffy. Even though isolated principles of hierarchy exist, an integrated concept of hierarchy is…

A PROCEDURE FOR MEASURING THE MINIMUM INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR IDENTIFICATION OF A WORD IN CONTEXT

GEORGE C. THEODORIDIS, ZAHRL G. SCHOENY

A simple procedure is used to determine the minimum amount of information required in order to identify a word when contextual information is provided in the form of a sentence…

THE PROBABILISTIC—INFORMATIONAL CONCEPT OF AN OPACITY FUNCTIONAL: NEW PROOF OF ITS MAIN PROPERTIES

M. MUGUR‐SCHÄCHTER, N. HADJISAVVAS

A new compact proof is given for the main properties of a previously defined and studied probabilistic—informational concept, the functional of opacity of a statistics with…

EVALUATING THE COMPATABILITY OF SIMULATION MODEL OUTPUT AND OBSERVED DATA

J.M. THOMAS, L.L. EBERHARDT, W.C. HANSON

With the increasing popularity of computer simulation models as tools for environmental management and assessment, there is often a need to consider how well the output from such…

DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT OF PROMPTNESS AND COHERENCE OF A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE: THE DATABASE ENTROPY APPROACH

K.T. FUNG

A framework based on the database entropy concept developed for characterizing the learning process of a database is applied to the dynamic measurement of the promptness and…

ASSOCIATING CURRENT KNOWLEDGE WITH THAT OF PAST EXPERIENCE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE ABOUT AUTOMATA

ELDO C. KOENIG

Important to the performance of interactive systems is the ability of its members to associate current knowledge with knowledge of past experience. Knowledge association discussed…