Kybernetes: Volume 5 Issue 3

CYBERNETIC ANALYSIS OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF URBAN SYSTEMS

P.N. RASTOGI

This paper presents very briefly a general model of the dynamics of urban systems. The behaviour of urban systems is characterized by varying magnitudes of in‐migration…

THEORY OF GRAPHS: APPLICATIONS TO AUTOMATON SYSTEMS

EVAN F. KOENIG

A special class of graph, the “systems net,” is defined The set of all systems nets is broken down into equivalence classes, which are shown to be partially ordered by a…

THE ARCHITECTURE OF REQUISITE VARIETY:: An Empirical Application of Managerial Cybernetics to the Organization of Socio‐Economic Enterprises and their Information‐for‐Control Systems (Part 1)

E.A. LOWE, A.M. TINKER

Cybernetics and general systems theory have fundamentally affected the character of the major theoretical structures employed in social science in recent years. However, in…

MAPPING AND RECOGNITION OF EVENTS IN ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY

V. DROZEN

In the first part, the author sums up general features of his model of holographic associative memory, consisting of a short‐time component and the associative layer, bearer of…

PROCESSES AND THEIR INTERACTIONS

MICHAEL J. FLYNN, S. RAO KOSARAJU

Coordination of processes may be explicit through logical control signals (asynchronous) or implicit through the use of a specified time base (synchronous). In addition, these…

APPLIED CYBERNETICS: ITS ROLE IN MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS

A. GHOSAL

The paper presents modelling techniques for various situations in management decision problems, when a problem is considered as a cybernetic system. The following aspects of…

PERCEPTION OF ANGLE SIZE IN NEURON STRUCTURES

K. AGABABYAN

A multilayer neuron structure which enables one to evaluate the size of a perceived angle is considered. The proposed neuron structure permits one to distinguish intersecting…

THE “COMPARATOR” FUNCTION IN THE REGULATION OF MENTAL LIFE

P.R. BIZE

A canonical regulation device consists of three operators, the principal one of which is the comparator. The paper considers the comparator in neuro‐psychology and its role…

SIMPLE EVALUATION FUNCTION

G. ZIELIŃSKI

The quality of chess programs is based on tree searching; this limits computer chess development. Modern improvements are possible mainly by applying new concepts in a heuristic…