Kybernetes: Volume 22 Issue 4

Linking Network Organization to Holographic Design: Future Industrial Organization

Jon‐Arild Johannessen, Arnulf Hauan

Discusses possible future approaches to questions of industrial organization. Suggests a meta‐model of an organization producing goods which combines the information requirements…

A New Approach to the Complexity of General Systems via Entropy and Quantum Entropy of Non‐probabilistic Data

Guy Jumarie

The complexity of a general system is identified with its temperature and, analogously with Boltzmann's probability density in thermodynamics, this temperature is related to the…

The Unfolded Shape of the Brain

Brennig James

Examines the problems of determining the unfolded shape of the entire human cerebral cortex. Discusses the isometric and isogonal cortex and measurement methods. Maintains that…

Identification of Multiple‐input Transfer‐function Noise Models: A Regression Approach — Part I: Theory

Ralf Östermark, Rune Höglund

Evaluates an identification strategy, based on ridge regression, for mutliple‐input models. The corresponding computer algorithm was implemented on a VAX–8800 computer at the…

Fuzzy Symmetric Functions with Don't‐care Conditions and Applications

Edward T. Lee

Defines and investigates fuzzy symmetric functions with don't‐care conditions and most‐unsymmetric functions. Represents and illustrates by examples algorithms for finding the…

New Aspects of Ecotoxicology through a Systemic Approach

Bonawentura Kochel

Shows how the essential ecotoxicological question of constructing a quantitative model of the interactions between environmental stress factors, and their synergistic effects…

On Continuous AI and Meta‐knowledge

Z. Chen

Points out how the philosophy of cybernetics may be helpful for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Starts with the notion of continuous AI and discusses its relationship…

Informational Observation Theory: An Extension to Two Discrete Sets of Events

Colette Padet

Gives an analysis of the consequences of the limitations inherent in observation processes PA and PB on the joint, marginal and conditional entropies of two discrete sets of…