Kybernetes: Volume 25 Issue 4

Long‐term solar activity: a glimpse at its pre‐telescopic history

Nicholas D. Diamantides

Aims at the structuring of an analytical tool that traces the time course of geophysical phenomena, regional or global, and compares it to that of long‐term solar conditions �…

A golden ANN‐iversary

Alex M. Andrew

Recalls that the first proposal for artificial neural nets was more than half a century ago. Subsequent developments are reviewed, with particular attention to the interface…

New developments in agonistic antagonistic systems science: variable parameters, partial derivatives, medical applications

Elie Bernard‐Weil, F. Mikol

Agonistic antagonistic system theory and praxis were born in the medical field, but may be defined now from an epistemological and biomathematical point of view. Describes new…

Virtual communities in cyberspace

Felix Geyer

Reintroduces alienation theory and research. Considers alienation in a cybernetic sense as a generic term for different types of information processing problems in individuals…

System theory and the roots of democracy

C. Musès

Considers the relationship between system theory and the roots of democracy. Discusses democracy in the context of the societal system and examines the need for awareness of the…

A multiprocessor interior point algorithm

Ralf Östermark, Martin Saarinen

Presents a new powerful multiple‐criteria decision‐making (MCDM) framework with an approach that combines recent results from several related areas. The De Novo programming and…

The specification of the human brain

D. Brennig James

Reviews some of the current thinking on the specification of the human brain. Presents a study of its functions but sees the number of hypotheses explaining the phenomena as…

An example of an interaction model between two species

M. Ndour, K. Abbaoui, H. Ammar, Y. Cherruault

Describes the use of the decomposition method for solving the differential system governing the interaction between two species, based on the Lotka‐Volterra model. The Alienor…

Fuzzy logic in the formulation of decision functions from linguistic specifications

Ronald R. Yager

Focuses on the applications of fuzzy set theory as a tool for the construction of multi‐criteria decision functions from specifications expressed in natural language. Starting…

Context‐free parallel grammars and their applications to generating context‐sensitive languages

Edward T. Lee

Describes intuitively the fact that four types of formal languages can be generated by four types of grammars or can be recognized by four types of automata. Gives the…