Kybernetes: Volume 36 Issue 3/4

The RISCOM model: dialogues and requisite organisation

Raul Espejo

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the issue of transparency in policy‐making processes.

Optimal structures for social systems

Markus Schwaninger

This paper seeks to propose an innovative approach to the assessment of the effectiveness of organizational structures.

Requisite holism – precondition of reliable business information

Matjaz Mulej, Vojko Potocan

This paper aims to suggest a new way toward reliability of contents of business information, on which quality of business critically depends. Contribution considers two problems…

Beyond hierarchy: a complexity management perspective

A. Espinosa, R. Harnden, J. Walker

This paper aims to contribute to current research on complexity management by re‐visiting Beer's paradigm on control and self‐organization and explaining its usefulness to support…

Technology learning systems as non‐trivial machines

Clas‐Otto Wene

Considering the technology learning system as a non‐trivial machine, this paper seeks to take a first step to ground experience and learning curves in cybernetic theory.

Rethinking research management in Colombia

Roberto Zarama, Alfonso Reyes, Eduardo Aldana, Jorge Villalobos, Juan C. Bohorquez, Juan P. Calderón, Alonso Botero, Nelson L. Lammoglia, José L. Villaveces, Luis Pinzón, Ricardo Bonilla, Andrés Mejía, José Bermeo, Isaac Dyner, Neil F. Johnson, Juan A. Valdivia

This paper seeks to present a proposal to change the form in which knowledge is produced in Colombia.

From sociohistory to psychohistory

M.I. Yolles

This study seeks to postulate a theory of psychohistory as a “think‐piece”. It develops from some earlier theoretical work on sociohistory that can model cultures that are…

Fostering innovation by unlearning tacit knowledge

Miroslav Rebernik, Karin Širec

The aim of this paper is to investigate the problems of managing tacit knowledge and the importance of unlearning it. As the main problem of managing tacit knowledge lies in the…

From management science to sociology: Cybernetics, finalization and the possibility of a social science

Paul A. Stokes

This paper seeks to argue that sociology is in need of reconstruction on a theoretical and conceptual foundation of cybernetics, specifically, managerial cybernetics and to show…

Stafford Beer's contribution to management science – renewal and development

Denis Adams, Doug Haynes

This paper sets out to draw on the insights of “Stafford Beer, the whole man” as portrayed within the Stafford Beer Archive at Liverpool John Moores University.

Smart systems and environments

Brian H. Rudall, C.J.H. Mann

This paper aims to review current research and developments with particular reference to smart systems and environments.

Global warming and nuclear power

Alex M. Andrew

This paper seeks to give a review of reasons for believing that the problem of global warming is more urgent than widely assumed, largely following the lead of a recent book by…

A systemic theory of orbits in ecological networks

M. Lloret‐Climent, P.F. Esteve‐Calvo

This paper seeks to analyze ecological networks from a different viewpoint, using the concepts of orbits, coverage, invariant sets, etc.

AXSYS: an intelligent system for e‐learning

Frank Rickett

The paper seeks to explore the issues surrounding the deployment of expert systems technologies in a contemporary online educational environment.

Systemic yoyo model and applications in Newton's, Kepler's laws, and others

Yi Lin

This paper aims to show that systemic methods and thinking can be used to develop useful tools to address problems open in traditional science, such as Newtonian physics…

Boosting human‐level AI with videogames: Mad University

Francisco Gallego, Faraón Llorens, Mar Pujol, Ramón Rizo

The main intention of this paper is to state the benefits of using online videogames as a research environment, where AI algorithms are improved by means of learning from…

Hyperbox classifiers for arrhythmia classification

Giovanni Bortolan, Witold Pedrycz

This paper sets out to design hyperbox classifiers of high interpretation capabilities. They are based on a collection of hyperboxes – generic and highly interpretable geometric…

Knowledge Structures for Communications in Human‐Computer Systems: General Automata‐based

W.R. Howard

Adaptive Business Intelligence

W.R. Howard

The Essential Turing

D.M. Hutton

A Philosophy of Information

D.M. Hutton

Performance-Based Earned Value

C.J.H. Mann

Creativity & Cognition 2007

The 12th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

XVI International Conference on Systems Science

Management science: current researches and developments – part I

Prof. Dr Werner Schuhmann

Peer-to-Peer Computing: Building Supercomputers with Web Technologies

C.J.H. Mann

Software Management Tutorial

C.J.H. Mann

Announcements

Provisional arrangements International Institute of General Systems Studies (IIGSS) 5th International Conference of IIGSS Wuhan, China

Call for participation

Management science: current researches and developments – part I

Brian H. Rudall

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