Kybernetes: Volume 21 Issue 3
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics
Information Processing Model of Knowledge Systems Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists, Kaan Egilmez and Steven H. Kim, writing in Applied Artificial…
Cybernetic Filters and Management Information Systems
J.D.R. de RaadtExamines two types of cybernetic filters which can be incorporated in a management information system (MIS). The design of these filters is dependent on the type of uncertainties…
A Systems Study:: The Comparisons of “Whole” and “Parts”
Yi LinUndertakes a systems study, in the language of mathematics, of the concepts of “whole” and “part”. The concepts of linked systems, product systems, Cartesian product systems and…
A Systems Study and the Fallacy of Perseus
Thomas MullenConsiders a systems model of changes in industrial structure, employment and income levels. A country subsidizes imported resources to augment its existing resource base and to…
Communications: Mathematics and Language
D.B. JamesQuestions briefly why there are two languages — ordinary language and mathematical statements Asserts that language is a subset of mathematics.
Principia Cybernetica Project (PCP)
Outlines the philosophy of the Principia Cybernetica Project — a movement towards the transdisciplinary unification of the domain of systems theory and cybernetics.