Kybernetes: Volume 12 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

The Western Digital Corporation of California (USA) has claimed it is the only company that can deliver “the hardware and software you need to begin programming in ADA today”. In…

DYNAMIC SIMULATION OF THE GAME OF CHICKEN

JOHN S. NICOLIS, JOHN MILIAS‐ARGITIS, D. CARABALIS

The evolution of the conflict of “blackmail” between two individuals is dealt with—both for symmetric and asymmetric contests. State—space diagrams are presented illustrating the…

USER‐COMPUTING SYSTEM INTERACTION IN A TIME‐SHARING NETWORK

S. SITHARAMA IYENGAR, PAUL O'NEILL, AVIS O'NEILL

The last decade has witnessed a growing concern among computer scientists to understand the complex interactions between humans and computer hardware. The work described in this…

PARTITION OF SYSTEMS' BEHAVIORS

SHINZO TAKATSU

The general problem to be considered in this paper is as follows: Given a general system defined by m attributes, find a meaningful partition of systems’ behaviors. Using an order…

MODELING METHOD OF QUEUEING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTIONS

THEODORE G. AVGERIS

The problem of modeling the performance distributions of queueing systems, on the basis of partial knowledge of the service time distribution, is examined from an information…

FORMULATING DATA DISTRIBUTION AND SEARCH PROBLEMS AS ENTROPY MAXIMIZATION PROBLEMS

K.T. FUNG

The relationship between the search problem and entropy identified by Pierce is used to show that the entropy maximization technique can also be applied to the data distribution…

A MODEL FOR CHANGING THE MINDS OF CYBERNETICIANS

BRUCE ENGLAND

Second‐order cybernetics, as developed by Foerster, has shown that the perceived environment is our invention. Cyberneticians also need to realize that this invented environment…

INFORMATION AND NOISE IN THE NEURONAL CIRCUITRY

P.P. NELSON

The informative capacity of a neuronal line is limited by the bandwidth and the noise of the cell mechanisms. We specify the nature of these phenomena and we estimate their…

ON THE ENTROPY OF FUZZY EVENTS

RUDOLF KRUSE

Entropy measures of fuzzy events of a set X with a (not necessary finite) positive measure µ defined on a σ‐algebra of subsets of X are studied. Using fuzzy measures and fuzzy…

A SIMPLE METHOD FOR OPTIMIZATION

Y. CHERRUAULT, A. GUILLEZ

Many biological systems give rise to optimization problems (for instance, when we have to identify the model or control of the system). Here, we propose a very simple method to…