Kybernetes: Volume 36 Issue 2
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Next generation grids for science and industry
Brian H. Rudall, C.J.H. MannThis paper aims to review current progress towards the development of the next generation grids for science and industry with particular reference to European endeavours. Reviews…
The systemic approach to the encouragement of innovativeness through employee diversity management
Sonja Treven, Matjaž MulejThe purpose of this paper is to present the problem of employee diversity management (EDM) as a complex problem; the dialectical system's approach to EDM; the impact of EDM on…
Elements of a cybernetic epistemology: The four modes of coexistence of goal‐orientated systems
Helmut NechanskyThis paper analyzes how two (or more) controllers can interact with just one controlled system. This is a basic situation in biology and sociology, but was practically never…
Ant colony based hybrid optimization for data clustering
Amarendra Nath Sinha, Nibedita Das, Gadadhar SahooA new algorithm based on ant colony optimization (ACO) for data clustering has been developed.
Systems science, information systems theory, and informational macrodynamics: review
Vladimir S. LernerScience of systems requires a specific and constructive mathematical model and language, which describe jointly such systemic categories as adaptation, self‐organization…
A systems study of lotus's leaf area
M. Barufaldi, Y. Villacampa, P. Sastre‐Vázquez, F. VerdúA systematic study of a lotus's leaf area is described through the genetic improvement of Lotus glaber, an induced tetraploid population known as, Leonel, was obtained. Initial…
Solution of the three‐dimensional transport equation using the spectral methods
Abdelouahab KademThe paper presents a method for solving the 3D steady state, linear transport equation in bounded domain.
An anti‐spam scheme
Alex M. AndrewTo describe a means of discouraging unsolicited e‐mails or “spam”.
Integer optimization by α‐dense curves
G. Mora, Y. CherruaultTo use α‐dense curves for solving an optimization problem with constraints involving integer variables.
On some fuzzy maps
Francisco Gallego LupiáñezTo define some new kinds of fuzzy maps related with c‐zero dimensionality fuzzy, and various notions of fuzzy connectedness (due to Fatteh and Bassan, and Ajmal and Kohli…
