Kybernetes: Volume 26 Issue 2

Contemporary systems and cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics, including: Knowledge‐based systems, Collaborative robots, Business cybernetics…

Automatic programming of cellular automata: identification approach

Andrew Adamatzky

To program cellular automata is to define cell neighbourhood and cell‐state transition rules in order to design an automation which exhibits determined patterns in its evolution…

Modelling the growth of American aggregates based on the metalogistic time function

Nicholas D. Diamantides

A relatively simple function derived from Benouilli’s differential equation and given the class name “metalogistic” is shown to be an efficient descriptor of the dynamics of a…

Bionics: psychocybernetics of human memory: Part III: modelling of the human short‐term memory

Simeon J. Mrchev

Presents research on human memory modelling. Gives a description of the memory process (as a whole) in its functional details by means of adding, processing and synthesizing…

Short papers: The resolution of non‐linear integral equations of the first kind using the decompositional method of Adomian

Yves Cherruault, Virginie Seng

Aims to solve Fredholm and Volterra non‐linear integral equations of the first kind. Uses the Adomian method, but since these equations are not under the canonical form u‐Nu = f…

Absolute limit in the development of civilization

Janusz Brozyna

Presents an example of the analysis of civilizing processes with the method of exact sciences to determine what the absolute limit of human civilization development is and what it…

Communications and forum: Medical databases

Edward T. Lee, Y. Judy Lee

Presents four approaches (relational, network, hierarchical, entity‐relationship) to medical database design with illustrative examples. Medical databases appear to be a fertile…

The biocybernetics of BSE and Prion disease

Brennig James

Comments on the current BSE epidemic taking a biocybernetical view. Produces a possible scenario which could explain how protein might replicate, albeit indirectly, using DNA as…

Information from spiritualism, science and its discipline ‐ cybernetics

M.B.S. Char

Discusses the notion that information from spiritualism, science and its discipline, cybernetics, can enable the human race to achieve the experience of total reality and peaceful…