Kybernetes: Volume 11 Issue 1
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Contemporary Cybernetics
B.H. RUDALLComputer‐Aided Design (CAD) is now no longer a novelty. It has been used successfully in many major projects in the United Kingdom and in many parts of the world. The use, for…
CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
A.M. ANDREWThe aims of cybernetics and of system research are shown to embody a strong bias towards biological studies. Cybernetics subsumes the ideas of “experimental epistemology”, a study…
CYBERNETIC AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
GER LOUUncertainty as a whole in our knowledge about reality is stressed. Redundancy as the factor to counterbalance the impact of uncertainty as a whole, is discussed and recognized in…
CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEM CONCEPTS IN THE NATURAL SCIENCES
V.K. BYKHOVSKYSUMMARY An attempt is made to reveal the prospects for an interaction between cybernetics and the natural sciences on the basis of molecular cybernetics, a synthetic discipline…
STATE GOALS GROUPS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
A.G. KEFALAS, A.W. SMITHThe Seventies have experienced a proliferation of citizen, city, state, national and international groups aiming at designing alternative futures for a better society. With few…
INFORMATION OBTAINED BY MEANS OF AN OBSERVATION PROCESS SUBJECT TO RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS
COLETTE PADETIn this paper, we propose to analyse the incidence of the limitations inherent to a process of observation τ on the entropy of a statistical continuous set of events observed by…
COST AUTOMATA, OPTIMALITY AND TOLERANCE
M.W. WARNERA simple adaption of Dijkstra's algorithm for finding a minimum weight path on a weighted directed graph serves to solve the optimal control problem posed by Arbib for tolerance…
A THERMODYNAMIC MODEL FOR THE TRANSPORT AND EXCHANGE OF BODIES DISSOLVED IN BLOOD
A. GUILLEZThis paper presents here a simulation model, the circulatory system being modelled on a heat installation. This installation is a heating system based on a distribution of…
