Kybernetes: Volume 38 Issue 6
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Global research and development: some new initiatives
B.H. Rudall, C.J.H. MannThis paper aims to review current research and developments with particular reference to some global initiatives.
Requisite variety: more on Gaia
Alex M. AndrewThe purpose of this paper is to mention a set of suggestions for analysing the current financial crisis, but with reservations about the usefulness of one based on Ashby's…
The role of sociocybernetics in understanding world futures
Bernard ScottThe purpose of this paper is to set out some ideas about how sociocybernetics can contribute to understanding possible world futures. A central concept in cybernetics is…
Soft systems and research
Frank StowellThis paper is written in response to the question “What developments are taking place in systems?” as a contribution to the November 2006 Cybernetics Conference. The paper is…
Migrating personality theories Part 1: creating agentic trait psychology?
Maurice YollesPluralities of personality schemas reside across different Maruyama universes suggesting incommensurability and isolation. Schemas may migrate across Maruyama universes given…
Web mining technologies for customer and marketing surveys
Richard S. Segall, Qingyu ZhangThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the usefulness and results of applying web mining as extensions of data mining.
Using multi‐criteria decision aid to rank and select co‐branding partners: From a brand personality perspective
Wei‐Lun ChangThe purpose of this paper is to utilize the big five models of brand personality concept to explore potential co‐branding partners by employing the multi‐attribute utility theory…
Concurrent processing of mixed‐integer non‐linear programming problems
Ralf ÖstermarkTo discuss a new parallel algorithmic platform (minlp_machine) for complex mixed‐integer non‐linear programming (MINLP) problems.
Self‐referencing as socio‐scientific methodology in contrasting paradigms
Masudul Alam Choudhury, S.I. ZamanThe purpose of this paper is to critique Gödel's and Tarski's axiomatic approach in their theorems of incompleteness of the arithmetical system.
On various neutrosophic topologies
Francisco Gallego LupiáñezRecently, F. Smarandache generalized the Atanassov's intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) and other kinds of sets to neutrosophic sets (NSs) and also defined various notions of…
Extracting order from chaos
Joseph Sherif, Ram SinghaniaThe purpose of this paper is to advance research that portrays chaos in number theory. Classical and quantum physics, and lately pure mathematics and system that exhibit deductive…
Pansystems‐based fuzzy systems relations and clustering
Minglan ShengMelting universality, quantification and relative computability into a meta‐synthesis, pansystems theory develops an investigation on W‐fuzziness and 0*‐fuzziness connected with…
Characterizing Cantorian sets by entropy‐like quantities
Konstantinos KaramanosThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the recognizability of Cantorian stochastic automata by generalized entropy‐like qualities.
