Kybernetes: Volume 14 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

Recent seminars in Munich, London and Rome, which were sponsored by the International Defense Electronics Association (IDEA), comprehensively cover the state of the art in Expert…

EXPERIENCE WITH A DATA ANALYSIS METHOD:: DART

D.A. BELL, T. MONTGOMERY

A new approach to meeting information requirements of Computer Application Systems has emerged recently, that of Distributed Database. To cope with the new issues raised by the…

COMPARATIVE PROPERTIES OF SEVERAL ENTROPIES IN INFORMATIONAL OBSERVATION THEORY

COLETTE PADET

In our previous papers, we proposed an analysis of the relations between information theory and observation theory. Referring to the parameters of the observation and using…

LACK OF RESPONSE TO A DRUG: A SYSTEM THEORY APPROACH

E. BERNARD‐WEIL

It seems necessary to consider the functioning of biological systems on the basis of agonistic and antagonistic actions of a couple of elements. Here, the adrenal postpituitary…

BANG‐BANG CONTROL OF A SECOND ORDER NONLINEAR UNSTABLE PLANT WITH FOURTH ORDER NONLINEARITY

K. BALACHANDRAN

In this paper the design of a controller for a relay controlled second order nonlinear unstable plant with fourth order nonlinearity is considered. The task of the controller is…

SOME PANSYSTEMS MODELS OF GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM IN ECONOMICS

CHEN BEIFANG, WU XUEMOU

Equilibrium is an important problem in mathematical economics. The paper deals with the problem by establishing pansystems models of equilibrium and introducing ε‐equilibrium…

FUZZY SYSTEMS IN KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

CV NEGOITA

The purpose of this paper is to outline a theoretical approach to approximate reasoning. The author shares the view that the emergence of an algebraic approach is vital for the…

Conference News

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS After London, Oxford, Bucharest, Amsterdam and Mexico, the triennal congress of the World Organisation of General Systems…