Kybernetes: Volume 34 Issue 9/10

Second‐order cybernetics and enactive perception

To present an account of cognition integrating second‐order cybernetics (SOC) together with enactive perception and dynamic systems theory.

Semantic category theory cognition and conceptual reference

Identifying the fundamental characteristics of meaning and deriving an automated meaning‐analysis procedure for machine intelligence.

Bipolar logic and probabilistic interpretation

The paper aims to answer the question “can the bipolar Negative‐Neutral‐Positive logic be extended and motivated in some probabilistic framework?”

Cooperative clans

To provide a mechanism for agents to form, maintain, and reason within medium‐term coalitions, called clans, based upon the notions of trust and motivation.

Future reasoning machines: mind and body

In investing energy in developing reasoning machines of the future, one must abstract away from the specific solutions to specific problems and ask what are the fundamental…

Machine vision methods for autonomous micro‐robotic systems

To develop customised machine vision methods for closed‐loop micro‐robotic control systems. The micro‐robots have applications in areas that require micro‐manipulation and…

Optimisation enhancement using self‐organising fuzzy control

To show the successful use of self‐organising fuzzy control in enhancing dynamic optimisation, a controller is used to direct the type of optimisation appropriate in each new…

Intelligent agents and distributed models for cooperative task support

To describe some research done, as part of an EPSRC funded project, to assist engineers working together on collaborative tasks.

Landscape classification and problem specific reasoning for genetic algorithms

This paper addresses issues dealing with genetic algorithm (GA) convergence and the implications of the No Free Lunch Theorem which states that no single algorithm outperforms all…

Business cybernetics: a provocative suggestion

There is a field needing both cybernetics and systems theory: business as one way to viability – “business cybernetics” might have to emerge. The purpose of this paper is to…

Dynamic portfolio management under competing representations

To solve the multi‐period portfolio management problem under transactions costs.

Enterprise resource planning competence centres: a case study

To describe the establishment of a Swedish enterprise resource planning (ERP) competence centre (CC), with assistance from Finnish colleagues and modelled on their CC.

Time and systems

To give a mathematical expression of what could be called the internal time of a dynamical system, a time which is different from the external or reference time.

Systemic philosophy and the philosophy of social science: Part II: the systemic position

To discuss systemic thinking in relation to the naturalistic position in the philosophy of social science. To develop the theme in two parts: Part I: systemic thinking and the…

Image labelling in real conditions

According to the problems of visual perception, we propose a model for the processing of vision in adverse situations of illumination, scale, etc. In this paper, a model for image…

Aspects of a theory of systemic construction

To consider aspects of a theory of systemic construction by discussing two concepts which will assist in our understanding of the surrounding world which it is considered is made…

To performance evaluation of distributed parallel algorithms

To address the problems of high performance computing by using the networks of workstations (NOW) and to discuss the complex performance evaluation of centralised and distributed…

Contemporary systems and cybernetics: New initiatives in the development of neuron chips and in biomimetics

Reviews current initiatives in the development of neuron/silicon chips and in biomimetics.

Cybernetics and systems on the web: hoax paper, nanotechnology

The aim is to review developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest.

Mathematical Systems Theory I: Modelling, State Space Analysis, Stability and Robustness

Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Art of Java Web Development

IFSR International Congress, Kobe, Japan, 14-17 November 2005

VIS 2005

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

Editorial

Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management

To Talk of Many Things – An Autobiography

From Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition

Announcements

MoDELS/UML 2005

University Professor Dr Alfred Locker, Emeritus, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technical University of Vienna

15th International Conference on Systems Science

Preface

Creating Web-based Laboratories

Bioinformatics Technologies