Kybernetes: Volume 38 Issue 1/2

The 20th anniversary tribute to Professor Rose: Cybernetics, technological barriers and education

The purpose of this paper is to discuss Dr Rose's paper which presented his views of the cybernetic revolution; education and the environmental barrier; and the purpose of…

The early years: some comments on the origins and concepts of cybernetics

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role and importance of the ideas of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics in the context of the information revolution.

The problem of technological barriers

The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into the thinking of the 1960s and at a time when subsequent advances and developments could not easily have been predicated with…

Reminiscences and reflections

The purpose of this paper is to present a personal view of Professor John Rose. The organisational skill of the late Professor John Rose is illustrated by reminiscences, and his…

Jacob “John” Rose – a tribute

The purpose of this paper is to recall the influential role of Professor John Rose in stimulating development of sustainable cybernetic frameworks designed to contend with the…

Fuzzy systems and cybernetics

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate thought and discourse toward postmodernism and its less known roots.

John Rose and the early years of sociocybernetics

The purpose of this paper is to sketch the most valuable contribution of Dr Rose to the development of social cybernetics over the period 1975‐1995.

Performance management, the nature of regulation and the CyberSyn project

The purpose of this paper is to clarify both regulatory processes in enterprises and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their improvement.

Complex versus complicated: the how of coping with complexity

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and explain how distinct approaches to coping with complexity vary in their effectiveness. The different strategies are evaluated as to…

Business cybernetics – provocation number two

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a more holistic definition and basic guidelines for implementation of specific cybernetics dealing with business systems (BSs) from the…

Dictatorships, democracies and the people

The paper aims to consider system and control ideas which are useful in analysing problems in human science.

Economic yoyos and some mysteries about child labor

The purpose of this paper is to establish a theoretical foundation for seemingly contradictory empirical findings about child labor and the families and the children's well‐being.

The cybernetics of inertial propulsion

The purpose of this paper is to provide a study of inertial propulsion.

A systemic approach to innovation: the interactive innovation model

The purpose of this paper is to describe the role of innovation for firm competitiveness from a systemic point of view, and to review recent literature about the interactive…

Cybernetical physics Part I: “Feynman's paradox” and its implications

Feynman's claim that a positron is an electron moving backwards in time implies a paradox. The purpose of this paper (Part I of II) is to prevent the contradiction in physics due…

Cybernetical physics Part II: the EPR paradox and its implications

The purpose of this paper is to explain the Einstein, Podolski and Rosen (EPR) paradox applying the multidimensionality of time and the perpendicularity of the temporal axes.

Aspects of a cluster research strategy: systemics applied to the study of clusters

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the question: how can we study clusters from a systemic perspective?

Pansystems traffics, logistics and knowledge rediscovery

The purpose of this paper is to develop pansystems‐styled traffics, logistics and knowledge rediscovery. The core logoi are the generalized resources//F* and their…

Pansystems decision making on tables

Tables are widely used to store information. It belongs to table decision making to choose the pivotal fields or partition fields into conditions and decisions to discover their…

Pansystems ecology, management and knowledge rediscovery

The purpose of this paper is to state the pansystems ecology, management and related principles and methods of knowledge rediscovery. Related contents include: generalized life…

The financial crisis

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a message from Professor Stuart Umpleby to the CYBCOM discussion group.

An Unfinished Revolution? Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory/BCL, 1958‐1976

Comments on a Review – Ranulph Glanville

14th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) Wroclaw, Poland, 9-12 September 2009

AISB Symposium on the Turing Test

Special announcements

Special double issue – memoriam: Professor John Rose

In memoriam – Professor Rose

Outstanding Paper Award

Business Metadata: Capturing Enterprise Knowledge

A Practical Guide to SysML: The Systems Modeling Language

UK Cybernetics Society 40th Anniversary Annual Conference

Announcements

Tributes to Professor John Rose 6 February 1917 – 3 August 2007

The personality of Professor John Rose, famous scientist

Acta Numerica – Volume 16

Encyclopedia of Algorithms