Kybernetes: Volume 31 Issue 9/10

Creative idea generation via interpretative approach to analogical reasoning

To add the flavor of creativity to analogical reasoning, an intermediate space has been proposed to be included between source and target, so that the inputs in the source can be…

CLCR optimal input design for IS and IU plants

The paper deals with the optimal reference signal excitation for closed‐loop‐control‐relevant (CLCR) identification for inverse stable (IS) and inverse unstable (IU) processes…

Universe as a self‐observable, self‐ethical, life‐embedding mathematical system

The non‐well‐founded properties of the empty set provide existence to abstract topological spaces, in which intersections of subspaces with non‐equal dimensions give topologically…

A synergetics approach to disruptive innovation

Emery and Trist were the first to design an influential taxonomy of four social fields to accommodate the perceived emergence of a new type of business environment, the type 4…

Uncertain variables and their applications for control systems

The definitions and basic properties of so called uncertain variables are presented. The uncertain variables are described by certainty distributions given by an expert and…

Control synthesis of a class of DEDS

A new control synthesis method suitable for a special kind of discrete event dynamic systems (DEDS) is presented in this paper. The systems to be controlled are modelled by a…

Incentives: mechanisms for the consistency of the Colombian educational system

This paper focuses on a project to develop a methodology for diagnosing and designing incentives to improve the Colombian basic education system's performance. We describe the…

Modelling, prototyping, and verifying concurrent and distributed applications using object‐oriented Petri nets

This paper presents several research issues associated with the PNtalk language that is based on a certain kind of object‐oriented Petri nets (OOPNs) and intended mainly for…

Fuzzy algorithms of problem solving

Labyrinth test psychophysiological experiment is elaborated to analyze possible mechanism of the probabilistic prognosis forming and realizing in the condition of essential…

Towards autonomous application interfaces

A global change resulting from a convergence between communication technologies – namely Internet, and other devices technologies – namely robotics, mobile communication, and…

Can the system idea help promote critical thinking and intellectual autonomy in pedagogy?

Some problems have been pointed out in the literature, regarding how the various critical approaches to pedagogy have failed to properly promote autonomy of thinking and to…

A systemic look at educational development programs: two perspectives on a recent Colombian experience

There has been considerable agreement among researchers and practitioners, working on development issues, that unless we improve the education infrastructure in less‐developed…

The bridge to humanity’s future: text of a multimedia address

Human life on Earth is threatened by the growth of world human consumption which quadruples every 35 years. Major environmental imbalances may soon severely deplete our planetary…

What is “engineering systems thinking”?

As technological systems grow larger, more complex, and interdisciplinary, electronics and hi‐tech industries face a growing demand for engineers with a capacity for “engineering…

The “Roundtable” for school learning and planning groups: planting a seed for systemic renewal

Current public education, overwhelmed by piece‐meal reform efforts, is in need of systemic renewal. An investigation of key literature – systems methods, instructional design, and…

Epidemiologic modelling of HIV and CD4 cellular/molecular population dynamics

Computational models can facilitate the understanding of complex biomedical systems such as in HIV/AIDS. Untangling the dynamics between HIV and CD4+ cellular populations and…

Application of systems analysis in modelling the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), widely known as “mad cow disease”, has virtually crippled the British livestock industry. Even though, no cases of BSE have been reported…

Tools for creation of multimodels

The process of creating complex models often requires different modelling methods and tools to be integrated. This paper provides a concise description of an object‐oriented…

Optimal control and approximation of variational inequalities

The paper deals with the problems of numerical approximation of the variational inequalities solution which occur in the optimal control problems. The Ky Fan‐Sion theorem of the…

Thorough numerical entropy analysis of some substitutive sequences by lumping

In this work we perform a detailed entropy analysis of some substitutive sequences using the technique of lumping. The basic novelty of the entropy analysis by lumping is that…

Mathematical bios

In this paper we report on a mathematical pattern that we call bios, and its generation by recursions of bipolar feedback. Bios is a newly found form of organization, that…

On the reachable robustness limits for time delay control systems

The paper presents a new decomposition method to handle optimal control design for two‐degree of freedom time delay control systems. In this approach exact relationships between…

“Physics” approach to general systems theory

A number of empirical statements intended to capture features of “systems” considered to be pervasive, is given. A symbolism based on processed natural language is outlined. The…

A systems approach to self‐organization in the dreaming brain

This systems model of dreaming consciousness examines the self‐organizing properties of the sleeping brain, offering a step towards reconciling brain‐based and content‐based…

Asymptotic models and methods in complex systems dynamics (General approach)

The paper is concerned with the different aspects of mathematical modelling and analysis in dynamics of complex non‐linear systems, that are generated by applied problems of…

Relonics: balascopy‐based systems‐specific technology

Relonics is a systems‐specific technology based on a complete scientific theory of control, regulation and coordination in super‐complex systems which allows generation of a new…

The cruel blow to the biomedical paradigm not based on systems sciences and cybernetics

Systems‐Specific Technology can detect, identify, evaluate and represent previously unknown patterns of multi‐dimensional networks which underline clinically significant metabolic…

Categorical prediction of acute chest pain outcome by relonics

Relonics, for the first time, identifies previously unknown multi‐dimensional patterns of biochemical meta‐networks which can serve as specific and sensitive systemic markers for…

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