Kybernetes: Volume 20 Issue 5

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

The story of Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is one that is well known to cyberneticians and systems scientists. His contribution to, and impact on, modern computing is recognised not…

Cybernetic Approaches to Computer Communications Networks

Amitava Ghosal, Raja Ghosal

Computer networks are very complex and somewhat unpredictable systems in dynamic operations. Cybernetic modelling, incorporating stochastic, fuzzy variables, wherever appropriate…

Statistical Models of Text in Continuous Speech Recognition

Ye‐Sho Chen

A major difficulty in continuous speech recognition research is the lack of effective and objective evaluation of the statistical models of text. Herbert Simon's view for…

Communications Norbert Wiener Biography — Some Revisions to the Review

Alex M. Andrew

Professor Masani has pointed out that my review of his biography of Norbert Weiner (Kybernetes, Vol. 20 No. 1, 1991, pp. 11–16) contains a number of statements that are erroneous…

A Chance‐constraint Programming Approach to the Capital Pricing Model

Ralf Östermark

A probabilistic setting is utilised in order to explain capital asset pricing, and an alternative expression for the beta‐risk premium of the Standard Capital Asset‐Pricing Model…