Kybernetes: Volume 20 Issue 3

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

VDU Working Still Creates Health Problems There seems to be little agreement about the effects on health of working at Visual Display Units (VDUs). There has been a great deal of…

ALFS: An Inductive Learning Algorithm

Krzysztof J. Cios, Ian Moraes

ALFS is an inductive learning algorithm that employs feature selection to learn concepts from examples. Features which best represent and differentiate a subset from other subsets…

Modelling Continuous and Intermittent Cranking Motions

Abdul Raouf, Hirofumi Imanishi, Kozi Morooka

Various aspects of operator performance during cranking are affected by the variability in crank size, resistance, location and position. Adequate prediction models incorporating…

Elements of Morphogenesis and Pattern Recognition Methods in the Process of Engineering Creation

F.W. Przystupa

In the creation process, treated holistically, the stages of chaotic inspiration, ideas classification, selection and decision may be traced. Known models of engineering…

Communications: Towards a General Theory of Pattern Recognition

Brennig James

Aristole's concept of knowledge is introduced and a general theory of pattern in space derived and discussed in its many dimensional forms. The ideas developed are presented as…

A Mathematical Proof of the Definition of the Science of Science

Yi Lin, Yonghao Ma

A new approach of general systems theory is used to study the feasibility of the definition of the theory so‐called the science of science. General scientific theory is studied as…

Some Observations on Cybernetics

Masnikoša Vukasin, Ušćumlić Momčilo

In this communication the interpretation of cybernetics in relation to Wiener's definition is discussed. Two problems are considered: the first is connected with the structure…