Kybernetes: Volume 2 Issue 3

ECG/LAB: A MERGER OF TWO SYSTEMS ON A MINI‐MIDI COMPUTER COMPLEX

PERRY A. SCHEINOK, PAUL SHRAGER

Two major computerized systems, ECG and Clinical Chemistry, have been meshed on an 1BM‐1800/System/7 tandem combination. The System/7 computer serves as (1) an analog‐to‐digital…

ON THE ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS CONTAINING NON‐QUANTIFIABLE ELEMENTS

D.W. KATZNER

There are many important issues arising in the non‐physical sciences which require the investigation of phenomena not, at present, capable of measurement. This paper develops…

SELF‐REPRODUCTION AND CHAIN REACTIONS

J. HUMPHRIES

In this paper a distinction is drawn between self‐reproduction and chain reactions that demonstrates that while the two processes are similar in some respects there is an…

ON THE NOTION OF RELEVANCE IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

C.V. NEGOITA

The paper presents a new point of view about the “relevance” concept. The logic of information retrieval is analysed (two‐valued, many‐valued and infinite‐valued logic) and the…

ON THE QUANTITATIVE FORMULATION OF THE HUMAN REWARD FUNCTION: Part II. Applications

GEORGE C. THEODORIDIS

The mathematical expression of the reward function introduced in Paper I is used in evaluating the dependence of reward on the variety of available experiences, as well as in…

RESTORATION OF DATA UNDER CONDITIONS OF INCOMPLETE SAMPLES

V.I. VASILYEV, V.K. GALITSKY, N.N. TODUA

In studying adaptive or self‐organizing cybernetic systems problems arise of choosing an adequate model of the object and truth estimation of some initial data. In mathematical…

HEURISTIC PERSONALITY MODELS

N.M. AMOSOV, V.M. BELOV, D.N. GALENKO, V.S. OLSHANIKOV

There exist a number of urgent problems in psychotherapy, social psychology and sociology which can be solved by means of special methods that would enable one to predict the…