Kybernetes: Volume 34 Issue 9/10
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents - Special Issue: Cybernetic Intelligence
Guest Editors: Mourad Oussalah
Second‐order cybernetics and enactive perception
J.M. Bishop, J.S. NasutoTo present an account of cognition integrating second‐order cybernetics (SOC) together with enactive perception and dynamic systems theory.
Semantic category theory cognition and conceptual reference
John G. St QuintonIdentifying the fundamental characteristics of meaning and deriving an automated meaning‐analysis procedure for machine intelligence.
Bipolar logic and probabilistic interpretation
Mourad OussalahThe paper aims to answer the question “can the bipolar Negative‐Neutral‐Positive logic be extended and motivated in some probabilistic framework?”
Cooperative clans
Nathan GriffithsTo provide a mechanism for agents to form, maintain, and reason within medium‐term coalitions, called clans, based upon the notions of trust and motivation.
Future reasoning machines: mind and body
Brian R. Duffy, Gregory M.P. O'Hare, John F. Bradley, Alan N. Martin, Bianca SchoenIn investing energy in developing reasoning machines of the future, one must abstract away from the specific solutions to specific problems and ask what are the fundamental…
Machine vision methods for autonomous micro‐robotic systems
B.P. Amavasai, F. Caparrelli, A. Selvan, M. Boissenin, J.R. Travis, S. MeikleTo develop customised machine vision methods for closed‐loop micro‐robotic control systems. The micro‐robots have applications in areas that require micro‐manipulation and…
Optimisation enhancement using self‐organising fuzzy control
Ann Tighe, Finlay S. Smith, Gerard LyonsTo show the successful use of self‐organising fuzzy control in enhancing dynamic optimisation, a controller is used to direct the type of optimisation appropriate in each new…
Intelligent agents and distributed models for cooperative task support
R. Patel, R.J. Mitchell, K. WarwickTo describe some research done, as part of an EPSRC funded project, to assist engineers working together on collaborative tasks.
Landscape classification and problem specific reasoning for genetic algorithms
F. Mac Giolla Bhríde, T.M. McGinnity, L.J. McDaidThis paper addresses issues dealing with genetic algorithm (GA) convergence and the implications of the No Free Lunch Theorem which states that no single algorithm outperforms all…
Business cybernetics: a provocative suggestion
Vojko Potocan, Matjaz Mulej, Stefan KajzerThere is a field needing both cybernetics and systems theory: business as one way to viability – “business cybernetics” might have to emerge. The purpose of this paper is to…
Dynamic portfolio management under competing representations
Ralf ÖstermarkTo solve the multi‐period portfolio management problem under transactions costs.
Enterprise resource planning competence centres: a case study
Annika Granebring, Péter RévayTo describe the establishment of a Swedish enterprise resource planning (ERP) competence centre (CC), with assistance from Finnish colleagues and modelled on their CC.
Time and systems
Robert ValléeTo give a mathematical expression of what could be called the internal time of a dynamical system, a time which is different from the external or reference time.
Systemic philosophy and the philosophy of social science: Part II: the systemic position
Jon‐Arild Johannessen, Johan OlaisenTo discuss systemic thinking in relation to the naturalistic position in the philosophy of social science. To develop the theme in two parts: Part I: systemic thinking and the…
Image labelling in real conditions
Juan Manuel García Chamizo, Andrés Fuster Guilló, Jorge Azorín LópezAccording to the problems of visual perception, we propose a model for the processing of vision in adverse situations of illumination, scale, etc. In this paper, a model for image…
Aspects of a theory of systemic construction
Nicolae BulzTo consider aspects of a theory of systemic construction by discussing two concepts which will assist in our understanding of the surrounding world which it is considered is made…
To performance evaluation of distributed parallel algorithms
Juraj Hanuliak, Ivan HanuliakTo address the problems of high performance computing by using the networks of workstations (NOW) and to discuss the complex performance evaluation of centralised and distributed…
Contemporary systems and cybernetics: New initiatives in the development of neuron chips and in biomimetics
Brian H. RudallReviews current initiatives in the development of neuron/silicon chips and in biomimetics.
Cybernetics and systems on the web: hoax paper, nanotechnology
A.M. AndrewThe aim is to review developments on the internet, especially those of general cybernetic interest.
