Kybernetes: Volume 5 Issue 1
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
A COMPUTERIZED APPROACH FOR ASSIGNING WORKER SKILLS TO TASK REQUIREMENTS
A. RAOUF, W. MANNEYCasual inexcused absenteeism is considered to be one of the major contributing factors for increased operating costs for companies which have work flowing through a group of…
TOWARD A SYSTEMS THEORY OF UNEQUAL EXCHANGE, UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT AND DEPENDENCY RELATIONSHIPS
THOMAS BAUMGARTNER, WALTER BUCKLEY, TOM R. BURNSThis paper proposes a systems framework for the analysis of economic exchange and development. Exchange is examined in the context of a social system in which actors have…
A FORMULATION OF FUZZY DECISION PROBLEMS AND ITS APPLICATION TO AN INVESTMENT PROBLEM
HIDEO TANAKA, TETSUJI OKUDA, KIYOJI ASAIAlthough the decision‐making problem at the lower level is generally well‐defined, the decision‐making problem at the higher level would not contain the detail. Much of…
COMPETITION IN NATURE AND THE LOGNORMAL MODEL
JOHN C. PAPAGEORGIOUThe different applications of the lognormal model in describing the distribution of various populations from both the biophysical and socioeconomic spheres are reviewed. A…
ARCHIVES FOR THE SYSTEMIC SCIENTIST
DANIELLE MIHRAM, G. ARTHUR MIHRAMAccepting the proposition that computerized models are capable of addressing the complex, systemic problems which confound us, one is led to enquire whether an “International…
ABSTRACT PROGRAMMING
DEWI BRENNIG JAMESAbstract programming attempts to extract the principles underlying problem solving and therefore approximate more nearly to a unified behaviour theory. A distinction is made…
COMPUTATION GRAPHS
MICHAEL A. BAUERThe notion of a computation graph is introduced. A computation graph is a rooted, directed graph whose nodes are labelled by statements (instructions) to be executed. The…
