Kybernetes: Volume 7 Issue 1

Contemporary Cybernetics

Applications of Microprocessors. Microprocessors are now playing an increasingly important role in Cybernetics. At the Micro‐processor Workshop at the University of Liverpool…

RECURSIVE STRUCTURALIZATION IN ALGORITHM CYBERNETICS

BUSH JONES

An approach to the cybernetic design of a wide class of algorithms is presented. The approach allows the implicit elimination of symbolic forms for an algorithm, while the search…

ON STRATEGIES OF CYBERNETIC MODEL‐BUILDING

H. NURMI

Starting from the ordinary (i.e., not model‐theoretic) model concept, the basic notions of the model‐reality relationship are discussed. In particular, the functional and…

PRINCIPLES OF REGULATION AND CONTROL

DEVENDRA SAHAL

Certain general principles of regulation and control are developed and substantiated by means of evidence from a variety of fields. First, success in regulation is a function of…

HOSPITAL CASE RECORDS—EIGHT YEARS ON

J.H. MITCHELL

The unsatisfactory state of medical case records in British hospitals and major problems of content, design and handling are described. Significant improvements in the present…

CONTROLLABILITY AND OBSERVABILITY IN THE OPTIMAL CONTROL OF LINEAR ECONOMETRIC MODELS

HAJIME MYOKEN

This paper is concerned with the state‐space approach to optimal control problems of dynamic econometric systems. We show how the state‐space approach can be integrated into the…

A FREQUENCY RESPONSE NEURON MODEL: INTERACTIVE IMPLEMENTATION AND FURTHER SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS

A.R. COVINGTON, J.R. SAMPSON, R.G. PEDDICORD

This paper reports further development and applications of a computational model permitting analysis of frequency response characteristics of simulated neurons. The original…

ANALYTICAL THEORY OF SENSORI‐MOTOR SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT

ROBERT R. TRAILL

This paper develops more specific details on how natural mental‐function might evolve within a wholly‐material brain system, depending entirely on “self‐organization” operating…