Kybernetes: Volume 22 Issue 3

Tribute to the Life and Work of Rook McCulloch

Alex Andrew

Rook McCulloch, the wife of the late Warren McCulloch, died on 4 June 1991, at the McCulloch Farm in Whippoorwill Road, Old Lyme, Connecticut. She was 92, and devoted much effort…

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include: Cybernetics and Education, Automation and Cybernetics, Fuzzy…

Self‐organization and Intermittency in Social Systems: Towards a Science of Complexity

Antonio Garciá‐Olivares

The concept of self‐organization proposed by Von Foerster and developed recently by I. Prigogine and the “synergetics” of H. Haken state a framework that promises to be fruitful…

Ideal‐Real Links: A Study of the Act‐Fact Interface

Paris Arnopoulos

Presents a systematic approach contributing to a better understanding of global problems and their solutions. The approach is based on a new theory of sociophysics which attempts…

Boolean Representation of Fuzzy Sets

Costas Drossos, George Markakis

Characterizes the well known set‐representation of fuzzy sets (Négotia‐Ralescu), as a P(X)‐valued Boolean, Dedekind cut, and at the same time generalizes it to general Boolean…

Models of Matching of Fuzzy Sets

Antonio Di Nola, Witold Pedrycz, Salvatore Sessa

Develops a general framework for processes of matching fuzzy quantities. Indicates how different hierarchy levels of matching indices are constructed from a relational way of…

Communications: The Distress Signal as a System Function

Lars Skyttner

An important segment of the life‐saving functions of higher organisms consists of a distress‐signalling complex. Presents a hypothesis concerning the generic existence of these…

Forum: Management Cybernetics: An Information Systems Approach to Pan‐cultural Business Communication

One aspect of American inadequacy in developing new international markets is the weakness in American personal communication with other cultures. If we cannot communicate…