Kybernetes: Volume 25 Issue 5

A theory of social systems: family and ecology as examples

Masudul Alam Choudhury

Uses the theory of knowledge‐based interactions to explain the idea of systems as extensive organismic interrelationships. Shows such extensive interactions to be possible only in…

Automation and cybernetics: control of a flexible one‐link manipulator

V.O. Gamarra‐Rosado, G. Fernández, J.C. Grieco, M. Armada, N. Aliane

States that control is of the essence in cybernetics. Summarizes the dynamic equations for a flexible one‐link manipulator moving in the horizontal plane. Employs the finite…

A celebration of higher dimensional systems and a man who notably explored them

C. Musès

Reviews the unique career of arguably the foremost higher dimensional geometer of the century, H.S.M. Coxeter. Discusses a book which encompasses this span of creativity �…

Linear algorithm to find the largest intriangles of a planar convex polygon

Arun K. Pujari, A. Nataraj

Presents a linear time algorithm to find the maximum area triangle enclosed in a planar convex region. The algorithm is based on inspecting a selected set of chords in a…

Cybernetics and creativity: the metaphor of Brownian motions

Z. Chen

Discusses the recent research interest in the relationship between cybernetics and creativity. Uses Brownian motion to review the metaphorical value of cybernetics. Points out…