Kybernetes: Volume 20 Issue 1

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

An essential feature article “Introduction: The Nature of Living Systems”, published by James Grier Miller and Jessie L. Miller in Behavioral Science, Vol. 35 No. 3, 1990, pp…

Norbert Wiener (1894–1964): A Discussion and Review of a Biography by Pesi R. Masani

Alex Andrew

A discussion and review of the important biography by Pesi R. Mansani of Norbert Wiener, with comment on the pre‐cybernetic era, Wiener's origins, his post‐doctoral studies…

Fuzzy Matrix Games Considering the Criteria of the Players

Lourdes Campos, Antonio Gonzalez

A new method to solve zero‐sum two‐person games with imprecise values in their matrices of pay‐offs is suggested. The natural lack of precision generated by the use of fuzzy…

A Cybernetic Approach to Information Systems and Organisational Learning

J.D.R. de Raadt

The viability of a social system is dependent upon its ability to generate information and learn. This requires an appropriate arrangement of its information systems…

On Additive Systems

Yi Lin

Systems with the so‐called “additive” property are studied. This kind of system is an abstract in the language of systems theory of some useful structures in mathematics, such as…

Communications Understanding Ourselves and Others: A Systems View

Brian H. Kleiner

A structural approach to human personality, which helps to unify the key concepts of the major theories of personality with particular reference to Freudian and Jungian…