Kybernetes: Volume 28 Issue 6/7

Aspects of identity, cohesion, citizenship and performance in recursive organisations

Develops the idea of complexity and its implications for our understanding of organisations and society. One such implication is the constitution of autonomous units within…

The viable system model and the Viplan software

The software Viplan learning system is an aid to learn about Beer’s viable system model (VSM) and its application. This is done with the support of the Viplan method. The five…

Pansystems cybernetics: Framework, methodology and development

The framework, methodology and development of pansystems cybernetics are introduced. Related contents include: the postmodernizational systems thought, the epitome of pansystems…

Neural transmission‐errors, cerebral arousability and hemisphericity: Some relations with intelligence and personality

Suggests that the arousability theory of intelligence and personality of Robinson (1996) lacks two important factors: the influence of neural transmission errors and of…

A neural network for modeling the process of transcriptional control in eukaryotic cells

A neural network approach is proposed for modeling the process of transcriptional initiation control in eukaryotic cells. Although all of the steps involved in expressing a…

Estimating system response to a regime shift: some evidence on international asset pricing

In this paper we try to assess how a weighted shares index and corresponding futures index respond to a change in the short‐term interest rate. Three methods are applied in…

From the anthropic principles towards the global strategy

In this work, which is purely argumentative, the author has made an attempt to apply a system approach to explain a phenomenon of biological structures in the universe. The…

A philosophico‐mathematical theorem on unity of knowledge

The ontological‐epistemological relevance of Divine Unity at the core of socio‐scientific world‐systems is developed in analytical terms and is contrasted with the scientific…

Autopoiesis and Aristotle: Rethinking organisation as form

This paper takes as a datum that autopoiesis theory broadly conceived as a scientific doctrine can legitimately be viewed as a modern day rediscovery of Aristotle. This is argued…

A sociocybernetic approach to information systems development

A principal problem of information systems (IS) development today is how to integrate the work activity and social context of users into the IS which is being designed. This paper…

Sustainability, democracy, and sociocybernetics

An examination of critique on early systems and cybernetics approaches leads to specific tasks for second order cybernetics, particularly with respect to the role and…

Knowledge management, autopoiesis and apoptosis

Discusses the need for knowledge management and its required composite. Presents three areas of knowledge management that are regarded as of essential understanding. Considers a…

Research communications: A simulation model of the “contract change” process

Presents a simulation model of the “Contract change process” for an aerospace manufacturing firm. The model was developed to simulate the activities from the time when a…

Algorithms for generating generalized gray codes

Gray code is a code with the property that there is one and only one bit‐change between any two neighboring numbers. An algorithm for generating gray codes is presented. It turns…

A systems approach designed to explain a phenomenon of biological structures in the universe

Introduces a research strategy designed to provide explanations for a phenomenon of biological structures in the universe. Indicates that the work is related to cosmic…

Editorial

Raul Espejo