Kybernetes: Volume 23 Issue 1

Formalism, Language and Information Science

F.H. George

Cybernetics and artificial intelligence are viewed primarily as being a major part of information science which is considered as we would any other scientific discipline. It is…

Systolic Array Design for Low‐level Image Processing

S.A. Amin, D.J. Evans

Systolic array designs of parallel algorithms for low‐level digital image processing, and in particular the gradient operator, are described. Indicates how, to achieve high…

Human Emotion Estimation through Facial Expressions

Edward T. Lee

Facial primitives such as eyebrows, eyes and mouth are used for the computer estimation of emotion. Describes how a pictorial knowledge‐base and pictorial knowledge‐tree are…

The System Analyst and Designer’s Vade‐Mecum, or Applicable Systematics in a Nutshell

Charles Musès

Offers the results of experience and reflection to systems analysts. Provides a list which includes: conception, component‐connection diagram, component‐connection table, and…

Maximum Entropy Modelling of Mixture Distributions

Dimitris N. Politis

Shannon’s entropy is usually defined separately for discrete, and for (absolutely) continuous random variables. However, many random variables encountered in practice have mixed…