Kybernetes: Volume 10 Issue 4

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

ADA DEVELOPMENTS The ADA programming language project, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Defence, will have far reaching effects on both the programming and the design…

VIA MEDIA WITH MARSHALL McLUHAN

BARRINGTON NEVITT

Marshall McLuhan devoted much of his life to exploring hitherto ignored psychological and social effects of technological innovation, the giant omission of Western civilization…

CONCEPTUAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE ELECTRONIC CONTROL OF LEARNING

J.G. SANTESMASES, J.M. GIRON SIERRA, J. MIRA MIRA

This paper reports on the basis of an analysis of the systems developed in our laboratory the conceptual and technological evolution of automatic control of learning behaviour in…

CONCEPTION TOPOGRAPHY

LAWRENCE J. MAZLACK

It is often argued that anything observable may be simulated on a computer. Using this as a basis, workers in artificial intelligence (AI) often go forward to maintain that…

EXISTENCE OF SATISFICING SOLUTIONS

T. MATSUDA, S. TAKATSU

As pointed out by Simon, the “satisficing” decision criterion is one of the most fundamental principles which describe human behaviors. Its mathematical representation i.e., a…

PARAMETERS IDENTIFICATION IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Y. CHERRUAULT, A. GUILLEZ

Many bio‐medical models leads to differential systems. Some coefficients (exchange parameters,…) must be identified from partial observation on the system's solution. We suggest…

CRITERIA AND LINEAR ORDERINGS OF FUZZY SETS

A. DI NOLA, A.G.S. VENTRE

Our aim is to define a linear ordering of the set of all fuzzy sets in the universal set X, i.e. the set of the whole descriptions on X by means of suitable criteria. Thus it will…