Kybernetes: Volume 19 Issue 6

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

Lasers and Optical Fibres in Robotics A recent article on “Lasers and Optical Fibres in Robotics” by Elzbieta Marszalec and Janusz Marszalec of the Technical Research Centre of…

Presentation of the Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal: 8th International Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, New York, June 1990

The outstanding event of the 8th International Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics was the presentation of the Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal to…

Perturbed Living Organisms: A Cybernetic Approach Founded on Photon Emission Stochastic Processes

Bonawentura Kochel

A new approach to living organisms with irreversibly perturbed homeostatis, based on the integrated moving average IMA (0,1,1) and autoregressive‐integrated moving average ARIMA…

On Pattern Analysis in the Non‐Convex Case

Antonio Cuevas

The problem of estimating a k‐dimensional body from a random sample of points is discussed and a natural estimate, first proposed by Grenander, is considered. Two consistency…

Minimum Mutual Information in Image Restoration

Joseph P. Noonan, James R. Marcus

The mathematical and theoretical development required for using the minimum mutual information technique in image restoration is presented. Results from an implementation of the…

Retuning the Global Theatre

Barrington Nevitt

The nature of communication between machines and people is contrasted and the power of words, concepts, and models as metaphors, both to help and to hinder thinking, is discussed…

Communications: A Model for Accurate Cardiac Volumetry: Experimental Results on the Normal Heart

Alejandro B. Engel, Silvio J. Bezerra, Siguemituzo Arie

The mathematical model and computer algorithm reported in a previous issue of this journal have been tested on 21 normal heart moulds by comparing the true volume value, measured…