Kybernetes: Volume 6 Issue 1

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTICS—A SURVEY OF PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENTS

L.C. DRISCOLL

A central problem of industrial robotics today is the development of systems for real‐world automatic assembly operations. Research groups in the US, UK, and Japan are currently…

A DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH TO PURPOSEFUL SYSTEMS AND INTELLIGENCE

DEREK J. RICHARDS

In order to survive, the actions of a purposeful system must be governed in such a way that its more prepotent needs are satisfied. A purposeful system's actions are largely…

FEEDBACK MODELS OF MONOPOLISTIC BUSINESS POLICIES: (Part 1: Price policy approaches)

J. BAETGE, W. BALLWIESER, G. BOLENZ, R. HÖMBERG, P. WULLERS

This is the first of two parts of a paper in which we shall develop microeconomic price models of monopolistic competition using methods and tools of feedback theory. The models…

SYSTEMS APPROACH TO SOCIO‐ECONOMIC PLANNING

RADMILA STOJANOVIĆ

Society is considered as a large system and, therefore, the inevitable planning of its development as a whole must be such that the focus is on the interaction: nature — man �…

ON HEALTH INDICATORS AND THEIR MARGIN OF ERROR

GEORGE C. THEODORIDIS, ERNST O. ATTINGER

Possible approaches to the formulation of health indicators and the uncertainties that should be associated with such indicators are discussed. As an illustration, two health…

THE RELEVANCE OF THE LOGIC THEORY MACHINE TO MODELLING OF EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS

D. SAHAL

Based on the postulates underlying the Logic Theory Machine, an attempt is made to develop a stochastic model of the process of problem solving in non‐laboratory situations. To…

A LEARNING MACHINE WHICH LEARNS, REMEMBERS AND REPRODUCES SEQUENCES WITHOUT THE USE OF DELAYS

J.J. WALKER, J.F. YOUNG

In the past, there have been several attempts to produce a machine which is able to learn sequences. The early attempts of Uttley and Taylor involved sequence recognition, and are…