Kybernetes: Volume 1 Issue 3

THEORY OF RELATIVELY CLOSED SYSTEMS WITH ELEMENTS EXHIBITING LINEAR BEHAVIOUR—PART II

R.W. GRUBBSTRÖM

In Part I of this article equations have been developed describing the behaviour of general deterministic systems. These lines of thought are followed up below, and are especially…

THE ROLE OF CYBERNETICS IN THE PROGNOSIS OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ROMANIA

MANEA MANESCU

The paper is based on the idea that management of a national economy is a complex cybernetic system. By considering the Romanian economy the author postulates that the relations…

REFLECTIONS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF AUTOMATED ECG INTERPRETATION

P.W. MACFARLANE, T.D.V. LAWRIE

This paper briefly describes the technical aspects of ECG interpretation by computer, and thereafter discusses in detail the considerations involved in introducing the method into…

FOUNDATION FOR A CYBERNETIC MODEL OF PSYCHOBIOLOGY

JACOB ZABARA

The mind‐brain duality has engendered fundamental problems integral to both neurocybernetics and psychobiology. Although Greek thought did not, in general, separate mind from…

MAN‐MACHINE SYMBIOSIS: Fusing systems theory and cybernetics to define the total information requirements of modern organizational activity

FRED R. BAHR

There is a growing need for integrative concepts that can assist in organizing and making information responsive to the data demands of individuals in the contemporary industrial…

THE PHYSICO‐MATHEMATICAL SUBSTRATA OF BIOLOGIC RELATIVITY: Cybernetics of Biologic Systems

JOSEP G. LLAURADO

Primordial pattern is the name given by Grigg to the curve representing the response of many biologic systems to a single stimulus. This curve consists of a fast ascent and a…