Kybernetes: Volume 4 Issue 3

COMPLEXITY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

HANS W. GOTTINGER

Complexity is worth studying as a subject for its own sake. We intend to investigate complexity in the context of a fairly broad class of dynamical systems (known as sequential…

EXISTENCE THEORY FOR STOCHASTIC OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS

W.G. NICHOLS, CHRIS P. TSOKOS

The aim of the present paper is to present certain existence theorems for stochastic control systems whose state variables, χ(t;ω), are continuous functions from the set R+ = {t;t…

HELPING EACH OTHER TO HELP THE HELPLESS:: An Essay in Self‐Organizationt Part I

R.W. REVANS

This essay, published in two parts, describes coordination in the British domiciliary services for the mentally handicapped, as seen by families helped and by field workers…

AUTOMATED ALGORITHM FINDING

BUSH JONES

The use of a computer to automatically generate original algorithms is discussed in this paper. The problems in the construction of a computer algorithm finder are discussed. An…

COINCIDENCE MAPPINGS: A GAME‐THEORETIC VIEW

M.A. KAAZ

Game‐theoretic studies1,2 have been extended and complemented by a coincidence theorem based on and closely related to the Lefschetz fixed‐point theory. It is shown (Theorem 4…

REPRESENTATION THEOREMS FOR FUZZY CONCEPTS

C.V. NEGOITA, D.A. RALESCU

In this paper representation theorems are given for L‐sets. In a particular case, by choosing a suitable L, fuzzy sets and flou sets are obtained and the connection of these…

THE PROPERTIES OF AN INTELLIGENT MACHINE

D.F. STUBBS

The hardware technology for an intelligent machine is available. We see no contraindication to the construction of the software of such a machine. This paper reviews and lists the…