Kybernetes: Volume 2 Issue 1

A GENERAL THEORY FOR AUTOMATIC DIAGNOSIS

H.S. HEAPS

The problem of automatic diagnosis by use of a computer is expressed as an optimization problem in which parameters are chosen to minimize the diagnosis errors in reference to a…

DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL‐TIME ADAPTIVE CONTROL TECHNIQUE

B.H. SWANICK, D.J. SANDOZ

An adaptive technique is described which relies upon identifying the transition and driving matrices of a linear dynamic system. By identifying these matrices a sub‐optimal…

NEUROBIONICS: PROBLEMS AND RESULTS

K.A. IVANOV‐MUROMSKY, V.Yu. MEITUS, S.Ja. ZASLAVSKY, Yu.V. PARAMONOV

Basic problems of the new branch of bionics—neurobionics—are discussed in a comprehensive form. Classes of problems are treated which bear a relation to the study of neurons and…

ANALYSIS OF A GENERAL LOGICAL DISCOURSE FOR MAN‐MACHINE INTERACTION—PART II

ELDO C. KOENIG, JAMES V. SCHULTZ

Part I, presented in the preceding issue of Kybernetes, concluded with the analysis for establishing the normal sequences for the principal statements of a general logical…

A RESONANCE MODEL OF LOGIC

MELVYN ROY WALLACE

In this paper we construct a representation of 2‐valued logic, not in terms of sets as in Boolean algebra, but in terms of ordinary numerical algebra. When applied as a physical…

CYBERNETICS TODAY AND TOMORROW:: The Place of Hypernumbers

C. MUSÈS

This article deals with the need of more sophisticated techniques to handle the cybernetics involved in psychosocial processes. The basic influence of destructive positive human…

MEASURING THE STRENGTH OF INTERVARIABLE RELATIONS

ROGER C. CONANT

The measures of information theory, suitably modified, can be used as measures of the strength of intervariable relations. This paper defines the normalized transmission between…