Kybernetes: Volume 18 Issue 2

Obituary — John Hugh Mitchell

Dr J. H. Mitchell, who was a member of the Editorial Board of this journal since its foundation in 1972, died at his home in Paisley, Scotland, on the morning of 7 August 1988, at…

Contemporary Cybernetics

Whilst at the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, US, Michael Lebowitz, currently at the Analytical Proprietary Trading Unit of Morgan Stanley and Company, New…

Worker Performance in a Combined Manual and Decision Task under Different Work‐loads

Abdul Raouf, Iji Ogawa, Kozi Morooka

Industrial control tasks can also be called Combined Manual and Decision Tasks (CMDT). It is in the performance of such tasks that the human operator is likely to play an…

Convergence of Adomian's Method

Yves Cherruault

Adomian has developed a numerical technique using special kinds of polynomials for solving non‐linear functional equations. General conditions and a new formulation are proposed…

Visualisation of Financial Planning Models: The Case of an MCDM Model in Commercial Banking

Ralf Östermark, Eero Kasanen

The approach described is based on conceptual analysis and practical experience on large‐scale financial planning models. In the authors' view, improved ergonomics in modelling…

A VLSI Systolic Implementation of a String Pattern Matcher — Part I

D.J. Evans, S. Ghanemi

In Part I of this article, surveys of the architectural concepts involved in designing special‐purpose VLSI computing structures are given. This leads to a discussion of systolic…

Communications: On Open Systems Planning: System Centring

Within the context of open systems planning this communication explores the centres of human individuals. The implications of failing to be properly centred are discussed, and a…