Kybernetes: Volume 33 Issue 8

Biometric systems

Presents reports and surveys of selective research and development in systems and cybernetics. They include: biometric systems; artificial intelligence; innovations; cybernetics…

Internet newsletters and spam

The centenary of Gregory Bateson is noted, with reference to a mailing list and relevant Web sites. Various means of combating spam are reviewed.

Cognitive and neuropsychological basis for quantum mechanics: Part I. Quantum‐particles as Kantian ideas

It was suggested by Fidelman that Kantian ideas, namely, actual Infinity, the cosmos, a reason for the cosmos and consciousness, involve a cognitive conflict. This cognitive…

Incorporating data mining and computer graphics for modeling of neural networks

Provides a background on the concepts and development of data mining and data warehousing that need to be known by students and educators. Then discusses the applications of data…

Contribution to the identification of linear compartmental systems

This paper studies the existence and uniqueness of parameters identification in linear compartmental systems using successive resolutions of linear algebraic systems. These…

Solving a class of linear partial differential equations with Dirichlet‐boundary conditions by the Adomian method

Considers the Adomian decomposition method to be a powerful technique that can solve efficiently a large class of linear and nonlinear differential equations. Describes a general…

Postmodernism and fuzzy systems

Affinities and shared ideas may be found at the foundations of both fuzzy set theory and the western philosophical movement commonly referred to as Postmodernism. The interest in…

Research topics in pictorial databases

Pictures are natural and effective means of communication among people, computers, and robotics. A pictorial database is a collection of sharable pictorial data encoded in various…

A change of radix

The use of ten as a radix for everyday numbering seems to be a suitable compromise. Non‐decimal numbers have applications in error detection and in computing. In the latter, it is…

Immunocomputing: Principles and Applications

Logic for Learning: Learning Comprehensible Theories from Structured Data

Perl Programming for Biologists

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction

Molecular Computing

Systems Thinking – Creative Holism for Managers

Modeling Neural Development

Announcements

C. West Churchman – 1913-2004

Literati Awards for Kybernetes 2004

The Great Adventure – Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution

Conference reminders

Centenary of Gregory Bateson

Conference reports