Kybernetes: Volume 43 Issue 1
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
A cost-effectiveness assessment model using grey correlation analysis for power transformer selection based on life cycle cost
Yiyi Zhang, Ruijin Liao, Lijun Yang, Xiaopin Deng, Huanchao Cheng, Cheng LvStatistics show that selecting the best investment program based on both cost and effectiveness can avoid financial losses. However, investment evaluation of a power transformer…
Using system dynamics to evaluate renewable electricity development in Malaysia
Salman Ahmad, Razman bin Mat TaharThe purpose of this paper is to provide an assessment of Malaysia's renewable capacity target. Malaysia relies heavily on fossil fuels for electricity generation. To diversify the…
Line planning in emergencies for railway networks
Xuelei Meng, Bingmou Cui, Limin Jia– The purpose of this paper is to generate line plan in emergencies for railway networks to complete the passenger transportation.
A comparative study of RIFCM with other related algorithms from their suitability in analysis of satellite images using other supporting techniques
Swarnalatha Purushotham, Balakrishna TripathyThe purpose of this paper is to provide a way to analyze satellite images using various clustering algorithms and refined bitplane methods with other supporting techniques to…
Computing machinery and creativity: lessons learned from the Turing test
Daniel Peter Berrar, Alfons Schuster– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relevance and the appropriateness of Turing-style tests for computational creativity.
Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 1 – agency, personality and mindscapes
Maurice Yolles, Gerhard FinkThis paper aims to develop a new socio-cognitive theory of the normative personality of a plural agency like, for instance, an organisation or a political system. This cybernetic…
Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 2 – cultural traits and enantiomers
Maurice Yolles, Gerhard FinkBased on the cybernetic agency theory of part 1, the paper creates a parallel theory to Maruyama's Mindscape theory called mindset theory, relying on the three-trait…
Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 3 – pathologies and corruption
Maurice Yolles, Gerhard FinkContext and cultural condition given, cybernetic agency theory enables the anticipation of patterns of behaviour. However, this only occurs under “normal” conditions. Abnormal…
The interspecies educator's cybernetic world
Ramsey Affifi– The purpose of this paper is to interconnect pedagogy and biology via second-order cybernetics.
