Kybernetes: Volume 22 Issue 5

Contemporary Systems and Cybernetics

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include: Automation and Cybernetics, New Developments in Systems, Software…

Signposts to Critical Systems Thinking and Practice: An Invited Article

M.C. Jackson

Outlines the emergence of critical systems thinking and practice and the reasons why such a development in the systems approach was necessary. Considers the limitations of…

The Case Study: Its Systemic Metatheory and the Social/Behavioural Sciences

James Steve Counelis

Briefly maps the intellectual terrain of a generic system of enquiry — the metatheory of case study research. Draws a distinction between a generic research design and a…

Some Results Related to the Concepts of Products

Yi Lin

Presents results concerning products, Cartesian products and direct products of general systems. The results are divided into three categories, according to input‐output property…

Generation of Diagnostic Rules via Inductive Machine Learning

Krzysztof J. Cios, Ning Liu, Lucy S. Goodenday

A learning algorithm called CLILP2 (Cover Learning Using Integer Linear Programming) is applied to medical data to generate rules to recognize patients with coronary artery…

Communications: Addendum to “The Unfolded Shape of the Brain”

D. Brennig James

The brain can more accurately be described as two organs than one.