Kybernetes: Volume 13 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

Dr Robert Axelrod of the University of Michigan (USA) has organised a competition for computer programs to simulate trading under given conditions. The created situation is one…

CONVERSATION THEORY

J.M. OGBORN, L. JOHNSON

A conversation is the minimum architecture which Pask claims that an entity must have for it to be able to think and learn autonomously. An understanding of this architecture is…

BEYOND GESTALT

WOLF PEARLMAN

Cybernetics has been defined, as ‘the art of effective action’. Yet architecture in developing countries tends to emulate the configurations familiar to the industrialized world…

MULTIPLE‐OBJECTIVE SATISFICING DECISION PROBLEMS

SHINZO TAKATSU

For decision‐makers, the cognitive limit is one of the most critical factors which determine the quality of decisions, when they do not have enough information about their…

COMBINATORY SPACES—AN APPROACH TO PATTERN ANALYSIS

V. DROZEN

In a static memory a crude representation of a field of stimuli can be based on the evaluation of the total occurrence of single stimuli, their pairs, triples, etc., respectively…

PHYSICAL RECORD CLUSTERING IN DATABASES

DAVID A BELL

The NP‐complete problem of optimally placing tuples on a hierarchy of secondary storage devices is considered using a heuristic approach. From load specification details captured…

HEURISTIC APPROACH TO CHINESE‐CHARACTER SEARCH

W.T. WU

The paper deals with a heuristic approach to a Chinese‐writing character search. Due to the small masks of the Chinese words being used in the approach, the database of the masks…

ON THE BEST WAY OF DESIGNATING OBJECTS IN SENTENCE GENERATION

H. FARRENY, H. PRADE

This paper deals with a problem encountered in natural language generation which seems to have been largely ignored in the literature, that of generating non‐ambiguous (i.e…

Conference News

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CYBERNETICS (1982) This meeting, the theme of which was cybernetics and education, was held in Columbus (USA) from 18 to 21 October…