Kybernetes: Volume 31 Issue 7/8

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/03684920010333080. When citing the…

The unique reach of cybernetics in our fin‐de‐sie`cle

The greatest mistakes and delusions of human history have come about through logically drawing conclusion from an omissive set of premises. Cybernetics, being the science of the…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/03684929410054889. When citing the…

Unfinished business

Two leading contributors to cybernetics have recently died. This communication records matters that arose in correspondence with each of them. Professor Pesi Masani was much…

The march of self‐reference

Focuses on the issue of increasing environmental and societal complexity, and its effects on the individual, especially visible in the increase of self‐reference (the…

Postmodernism, cybernetics and fuzzy set theory

This paper is an attempt to stimulate thought and discourse towards postmodernism and its less known roots. It addresses the relationship between postmodernism and the development…

Would dynamic systems involving human factors be necessarily of fractal nature?

It is shown that if one assumes, as a consequence of biological cycles and cultural background, that human systems are subject to random time different from the standard physical…

Virtual clothing in hybrid cellular automata

An interactive clothing system is one of the basic components of virtual reality. The clothing is implemented via design of two‐dimensional garment panels and putting the panels…

Entropic properties of international systems

In this article the mathematical formula of entropy is used to evaluate the degree of anarchy specific to multipolar, bipolar, and balance of power international political…

Aspects of a systemic philosophy of knowledge: from social facts to data, information and knowledge

Considers from a cybernetic point of view, a number of philosophical problems raised by the design and utilization of information systems and knowledge management. Discusses the…

Using Bézier curves in approximate reasoning

The possibilities of using Bézier curves as a concrete tool in the development of the inference engine of a decision support system allowing approximate reasoning are explored. We…

Approximation of multiple integrals by length of α‐dense curves

The authors have developed a new method for approximating multiple integrals. This new method is based on Alienor method which use α‐dense curves. Double and triple integrals have…

Fifth European Systems Science Congress

Eleventh International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements

Literati awards - 2002

World organisation of systems and cybernetics

Special issue dedicated to the life of Dr Charles Musès

AISB '02 Convention

Selected papers contributed to Kybernetes by Charles Muses

On Charles Muses

Call for papers Saint - 2003

Reports from the 12th international WOSC congress and the 4th IIGSS workshop, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, USA, March 24-26, 2002

A personal view of the joint WOSC and IIGSS conference at Pittsburgh

Dr Charles Musès – in memoriam 1919-2000

Bibliography of his work

Editor's note on the Musès/Masani dialogue

Internet commentary