Kybernetes: Volume 26 Issue 8

Contemporary systems and cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

Gives reports and surveys of selected current research and developments in systems and cybernetics. They include artificial intelligence, management cybernetics, social inclusion…

Internet commentary

Alex M. Andrew

Reviews current Internet developments and reviews new services and systems. Considers and presents in particular facilities for users working in systems and cybernetics.

General living systems theory: a basis of dynamic simulation

Lars Skyttner

Dynamic simulation as a tool to solve large scale complex problems has long been considered both highly abstract and elusive, especially by the users of the result. Proposes a new…

Recursive least squares modelling: empirical evidence from the Finnish and Japanese markets

Rune Höglund, Ralf Östermark

Previous evidence suggests that the relationship between different stock markets is unstable over time. In particular, the Finnish and Japanese financial economies are…

An experiment in knowledge discovery using data dependencies

F. McErlean, D.A. Bell

The management of uncertainty has received much attention recently in the fields of database and artificial intelligence. Several methods of evidential reasoning have been…

The decomposition method applied to a diffusion model

M. N’Dour, Y. Cherruault

Uses the decomposition method for solving a diffusion equation. The partial differential equation is reduced to a differential system. Uses a new relationship for calculating…

A likely cybernetic perennial: studies in cognitive systems theory

C. Musès

Reviews the work of Robert Vallée and considers in particular his latest contribution, Cognition et Système.

Communications and forum: Daisyworld and Darwin

Alex M. Andrew

Examines the challenge of the Daisyworld idea and relates it to Darwinian contentions. Looks at recursion processes and the emergence of sex in relation to the idea. Refers to new…