Kybernetes: Volume 27 Issue 2

Contemporary systems and cybernetics

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics including: Information society, Innovations, Human resources, Information…

Internet commentary

Comments on the Internet, giving details of new facilities and provisions that are of specific interest to systemists and cyberneticians.

Optimal environmental policy under imperfect information

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of information structure in the design of the structure and parameters of an optimal regulatory mechanism. In particular, the…

Some complementary concepts of communication theory

To enhance the generality and usefulness of classic communication theory, some complementary concepts and ideas have been introduced and commented against the background of…

Food for trees: Man’s place in the tapestry of life on earth

This paper presents an argument relating to the relative importance of human life on earth. In Popperian fashion, a number of falsifiable conjectures are made and, using systemic…

Expert systems: An integral part of knowledge management

Knowledge management is one of the hottest topics in organizations today. Much of what is being proposed and accomplished is not novel by any means. Techniques, tools, concepts…

Communications and forum: Abstract neural automata ‐ further considerations

The purpose of this paper is to consider the following three kinds of cases: first, where a network of stochastic automata consists of a neuron of several types; second, where not…

The universal algorithm

Proposes that problems can only be solved by trial and error, since the second law of thermodynamics forbids any other means and that the embodiment of this process is a mechanism…

Popularisation of cybernetic concepts: the timely necessity of achieving reality and peace

People are living in the age of an information explosion. They are led to a crisis of confusion when they attempt to select required information needed to achieve their long…

Software without Frontiers: : A Multi‐platform, Multi‐cultural, Multi‐nation Approach (series in Software Engineering Practice)

Logical Basis of Common Sense

Second‐order Methods for Neural Networks: : Fast and Reliable Training Methods for Multi‐Layer Perceptrons (Perspectives in Neural Computing Series)

Patalogia Informationala (Informational Pathology) ‐ (in Romanian with a 12‐page summary and chapter summaries in English)

Mathematics of Dependable Systems II

EITC 97 - 'Convergence: creating the future' (European IT Conference and Exhibition, 24-26 November 1997, Brussels Congress Centre)

Rafael Rodríguez Delgado: 1912-1997

Announcements

WOSC - noticeboard

19th International Conference - BEM/19, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy, 9-11 September 1997

Special Announcements

First International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, CASYS '97, Liege, 11-15 August 1997