Kybernetes: Volume 38 Issue 9

Next‐generation technology: challenges and applications

The purpose of this paper is to review current research and developments with particular reference to the next‐generation technologies.

Cybernetics and the White House

The purpose of this paper is to review proposals concerned with advice to President Obama from a cybernetics viewpoint, along with critical comments on the new administration by…

Web sites of R. Vallée and Elizabeth R.

The purpose of this paper is to introduce important new web sites, one of them providing data on the WOSC President and the other on the Queen of the UK and her family. Also…

Supplier evaluation model for computer auditing and decision‐making analysis

The purpose of this paper is to present a model and a supporting approach for effective supplier selection decisions.

Migrating personality theories Part 2: towards a theory of the balanced personality?

Some personality schemas are seen to compete with others, but are they really complementary? The purpose of this paper is to show that two trait approaches, Myers‐Briggs Type…

A model for assessing organizational knowledge inventory

The purpose of this paper is to propose a mathematical model that can quantitatively and vividly measure the current capability of enterprises by evaluating their existing…

Success factors and competencies in organisational evolution

The purpose of this paper is to investigate organisational evolution and change forces that influence the adaptation process. Despite significant research interest in this topic…

Toward semantical model of reaction‐diffusion computing

The purpose of this paper is to fill a gap between experimental and abstract‐theoretic models of reaction‐diffusion computing. Chemical reaction‐diffusion computers are amongst…

Human motion design in hierarchical space

The purpose of this paper is to define the process of human motion design in hierarchical space by cybernetic technology using mathematical symbol construction of hierarchical…

XFighter: an intelligent web content filtering system

With the proliferation of objectionable world wide web (WWW or web) materials such as pornography and violence, there is an increasing need for effective web content filtering…

Algorithm for qualitative analysis of a system's dependencies

Based on knowledge of the variables of a link system and their interrelation, the purpose of this paper is to show how it is possible to specify all the objects relating to…

Analytical approximate solution of a SIR epidemic model with constant vaccination strategy by homotopy perturbation method

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an efficient method for solving susceptible‐infected‐removed (SIR) epidemic model. A SIR model that monitors the temporal dynamics of a…

On excitable dynamic systems with delays

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the properties of transparency and excitability of positive linear time‐invariant systems under internal point delays.

Sextic B‐spline collocation method for the modified Burgers' equation

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the numerical solutions of the Burgers' and modified Burgers' equation using sextic B‐spline collocation method.

Monte Carlo simulation for solving Fredholm integral equations

The purpose of this paper is to provide a Monte Carlo variance reduction method based on Control variates to solve Fredholm integral equations of the second kind.

Schneier on Security

Biometric System and Data Analysis: Design, Evaluation, and Data Mining

100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

A Missing Link in Cybernetics: Logic and Continuity

A Pragmatic Guide to Business Process Modelling (2nd ed.)

Information Security Management Principles

Special announcements

Conference brief

Governance: Systemic Foundations and Framework

Software Testing: An ISEB Intermediate Certificate

Business Focused IT and Service Excellence (2nd ed.)

Announcements

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics

2009 Awards for Excellence