Kybernetes: Volume 22 Issue 2

Norbert Wiener Centenary Award Ceremony

The Norbert Wiener Centenary Award for excellence was presented to Dr Felix Geyer of SISCO, The Netherlands Universities' Institute for Co‐ordination of Research in Social…

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

Selected reports and surveys of current research and developments in systems and cybernetics are given. They include: Science in the UK, Management Cybernetics, Neural Nets…

The Cybernetic Ontology of Action

Valentin F. Turchin

Popularly, metaphysics is considered to be the antonym for physics. Argues that this attitude is a hangover from outdated forms of empiricism and positivism. In the light of…

Observable Structure Functions

J. Montero

Considers the concept of structure function in reliability theory. Complete lattices are considered in order to model the space of performance levels for both system and…

Future Vision: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Organizational Success

Gary D. Buckner, Vivek Shah

In management cybernetics, artificial intelligence is altering the ways in which computers are usable as problem‐solving tools. The talent of humans at thus smartly creating and…

Communications: The Decomposition of Relational Schemas Based on Pansystems Methodology

Wu Chen

Puts forward a new method for decomposing relational schemas by using semi‐equivalence relations based on pansystems methodology. A necessary and sufficient condition is obtained…

Approaches to the Job‐classification Problem in the Use of Beer's Predictive Model

A.G. Adeagbo‐Sheikh

The Use of Beer's Predictive Model in classifying incoming jobs into achievement groups is basically a pattern recognition problem. Pattern recognition, in modern technology, is a…