Kybernetes: Volume 35 Issue 7/8

Interdependence of systems theories – potential innovation supporting innovation

To show that systems theory (ST) has surfaced as innovation of worldview and thinking, aimed at holism. After ST's subordination to narrow specialists using it inside traditional…

Design for viable organizations: The diagnostic power of the viable system model

This paper attempts to underpin the theoretical claim of the viable system model to specify the necessary and sufficient preconditions of organizations for viability.

An evolutionary view of innovation

The early appearance of a form of innovation is accounted for as a feature of the evolutionary origins of intelligence. This is part of a view of intelligence in which the…

What do transition organizations lack to be innovative?

Innovativeness is probably the most effective way for organizations in the transition economies to improve their competitiveness. The purpose of this research is to find those…

Manager's requisite holism between personal and organisational values

To provide a link between psychology and management in order to promote a requisitely holistic thinking about human values. Managers need co‐workers rather than employees. Hence…

Cooperation and opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing

The aim of this paper is to investigate possible opportunistic behaviour in transformational outsourcing relationship and to indicate possibilities how to avoid it.

Using systems dynamics for human resources management in information systems security

To enable quantitative and qualitative modelling of information systems security management that takes into account technology and human factor.

The economic‐cultural context of the EU economies

To analyse the European Union (EU) economies in the economic‐cultural context using a combination of soft variables and hard economic indicators in different time periods.

Fractal planning for integral economic development

To conceptualize a new approach to economic development that fully embraces its fractal complexity, providing a basis for sustained socioeconomic welfare within cultures that…

Systems approach to complex systems modelling with special regards to tourism

The importance of context dependent modelling of complex systems, depending on the observer's point of view will be discussed. Thus, context is synonymous for the content of a…

Systemic decision analysis approaches: Requisite tools for developing creative ideas into innovations

To complete the general multi‐criteria decision‐analysis process and extend it to the process of requisitely holistic generating ideas and developing them into innovations. Also…

Systemic approach for innovative education process

The main objective was to establish which are the most important phases within the invention‐innovation processes in Slovenian vocational education and training. We focused on the…

A complex adaptive systems approach to efficiency and innovation

The primary objective of this paper is to discuss whether complexity science can help overcome management's dilemma of how to balance efficiency and innovation.

Systemic approach to innovations – standards vs software

In this paper we tried to apply some system theory in the complex problems of intellectual property management by presenting some relevant current issues regarding standards and…

Communication and information technologies to enable viable organizations

This paper attempts to show how the new communication and information technologies and the internet in particular can help in the design of viable organizations.

Innovative influence

To describe experience of introducing contemporary West management methods in Russian University's management courses and in practice of West‐Siberian rail road management.

Innovative organisation approach to sustainable tourism development in rural areas

To work out an innovative organisation model for tourism destinations in rural areas.

Intellectics and inventics

The main aim of the paper is to show the necessary convergence of two promising but under‐explored research fields, intellectics and inventics, into a new one, that of…

The dialectical network thinking – a new systems theory concerned with management

To show that holism, which has been the original aim of the systems theory as a worldview of holism rather than reductionism, is best attained by application of those versions of…

Marketing of public and private affairs – a link

To present the public and business systems, their characteristics, structure of link, and to propose tools of improvement.

Modelling regional economic development

The central task is to define the ties, existing between economic dimensions, which can be expressed in specific relations that require special attention during projecting to…

Informational topology and globalisation process

To explain the objectivity of the globalisation process by using the mathematical theory of topological structures.

Moral invention in meaning‐constituting systems

To present the concept of moral invention as discussed by philosopher Paul Ricoeur and to examine how the selections operated by systems described by Niklas Luhmann as…

Uncertain variables as a tool for analysis and decision making in uncertain knowledge‐based systems

To present new results concerning the applications of the uncertain variables to analysis and decision problems in a class of uncertain knowledge‐based systems described by a…

Inverse transfer and epistemo‐praxiology

To present the concept of inverse transfer of the internal structures of a dynamical system to the perception it has of its environment and itself.

Coverage, invariability and orbits by structural functions

Based on some of the results and definitions provided in the paper “system linkage: structural functions and hierarchies” and adding new definitions that are in keeping with the…

The quantum turn in cybernetics

The aim is to identify and demonstrate the paradigmatic changes that quantum information science engenders in observing and the cybernetics thereof. The new paradigm obviates…

On index system and mathematical model for evaluation of scientific and technical strength

A appraises the scientific and technical strength of a region. In order to make the appraisal scientifically, we need an index system and a evaluation model.

Multi‐attribute grey incidence decision model for interval number

Based on the characteristics of interval number, the distance of interval number is defined. And based on the grey incidence degree theory, the degree of interval number incidence…

Study on venture problem of potential optimal pure strategy solution for grey interval number matrix game

A study is made of the payoff matrix which is made up of grey interval number because of asymmetry information, player's finite knowledge and bounded rationality and all sorts of…

Topics in ASC discussion: Cybernetics and systems on the web

Selections from topics discussed on the CybCom list over a particularly active period in early 2006 are reviewed. These include the relevance of autopoiesis to sociology, courses…

Uncertainty and Information: Foundations of Generalized Information Theory

Probalistic Robotics

Business Success through Service Excellence

Electronic Brains – Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age

Implementing Data Mining Algorithms in Microsoft SQL Server

Agile Software Construction

Holistic Darwinism

Introduction

Profile of the Guest Editor – MatjazÏ Mulej

Announcements

Call for participation: 3rd International conference on mobile ad hoc and sensor systems

IEEE Visualization 2006 VIS 2006, October 29-November 3, 2006, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Preface

Kybernetes Research Awards for papers presented at the 13th WOSC Congress and the 6th ISA RC51 Conference, July 2005

Death of Professor Zdzislaw Bubnicki

Mathematics in the science of complex systems

International Conference on Global Software Engineering ICGSE'06