Kybernetes: Volume 41 Issue 3/4

Design and diagnosis for viable organizations in practice: university urban planning

The purpose of this paper is to present an example of the application of a framework, based on Beer's organizational cybernetics and viable system model, that allowed the top…

Organizational learning and the effective management of complexity

The purpose of this paper is to show, through a case study, the relationship between organizational learning and the need to improve the organization's management of complexity.

Seeing organisations: epistemological considerations

The purpose of this paper is to offer an incursion into the complexity of organisations. This paper distinguishes a collective in its surroundings, an organisation in its medium…

Governance and inclusive democracy

The purpose of this paper is to offer a research agenda to improve on representative, participatory and deliberative forms of democracy. It argues for an inclusive democracy built…

Making change happen: recollections of a systems professional

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the potential of making the systems approach fertile for the future of our world(s).

A systemic approach to the philosophy of history

The purpose of this paper is to present a systemic philosophy of history, which, to the author's knowledge, is new in the study of history. As such this is an innovation into the…

Adaptive self‐organization vs static optimization: A qualitative comparison in traffic light coordination

The purpose of this paper is to compare qualitatively two methods for coordinating traffic lights: a static optimization “green wave” method and an adaptive self‐organizing method.

A dynamic traffic allocation model of voice over internet protocol and public switched telephone network

Corporations with multiple national and international sites rely on telecommunication services such as public switched telephone network (PSTN) to deal with their customers and…

Integrating group Delphi, analytic hierarchy process and dynamic fuzzy cognitive maps for a climate warning scenario

The purpose of this paper is to present the common use of Delphi method, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and dynamic fuzzy cognitive maps (DFCM) for development of future…

Adaptation of fuzzy cognitive maps by migration algorithms

Conventional rule‐based systems are insufficient for description of complex dynamic systems requiring nontrivial decision procedures. Fuzzy cognitive maps seem to be convenient to…

Elements of a cybernetic epistemology: Pattern recognition, learning and the base of individual psychology

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how pattern recognition can contribute to the behavioral options of a goal‐oriented system.

Using orthonormal wavelet basis in Petrov‐Galerkin method for solving Fredholm integral equations of the second kind

The purpose of this paper is to explain the choice of Alpert multi‐wavelet as basis functions to discrete Fredholm integral equation of the second kind by using Petrov‐Galerkin…

Convergence of sinc approximation for Fredholm integral equation with degenerate kernel

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a numerical method for solving Fredholm integral equations of the first kind with degenerate kernels and convergence of this numerical…

The elements of parametrical regulation theory for computable general equilibrium models

The purpose of this paper is to present some results of the development of parametrical regulation theory elements for computable general equilibrium models (CGE models), taking…

An efficient method for solving system of Volterra integral equations

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a numerical method for solving system of Volterra integral equations.

Improved calculation method of shortest path with cellular automata model

Shortest path problem has always been a hot topic in the study of graph theory, because of its wide application field, extending from operational research to the disciplines of…

Unconventional computing

The purpose of this paper is to review computational techniques that differ from the familiar “von Neumann” or “Turing” model. The review is prompted by an issue of ERCIM News in…

Exploring Discrete Dynamics

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