Kybernetes: Volume 7 Issue 2

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. Rudall

COMPARISON OF COMPUTERS One of the real problems of the day for the research worker, who wishes to acquire a new computing facility, is the problem of the evaluation and testing…

CONNECTIVITY AND THE BRAIN

DEREK F. STUBBS

An estimate is made of the connectivity of a mammalian neuron, i.e., the number of other neurons to or from which an average neuron directly connects. The value derived is about…

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS: KNOWLEDGE ASSOCIATION AND RELATED DEDUCTIVE PROCESSES

ELDO C. KOENIG

Important to the performance of intelligent systems is the ability of its members to deduce conclusions as responses from premisses received as knowledge during different time…

QUASILINEAR ADAPTION IN NON‐LINEAR MODEL CONTROL

C. McCORKELL, B.H. SWANICK

A linear‐model‐based adaptive control system is developed. Alternative identification techniques are combined with a suboptimal controller. Iterative and recursive algorithms are…

CYBERNETIC STUDY OF SOCIETAL SYSTEMS (Part 2): The Course of Indian Society 1970–80

P.N. RASTOGI

The second part of this paper reports the results of application of the theory and methodology to the analysis of Indian society in the current decade. It explains the nature of…

DEVELOPING APARTMENT MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS AS URBAN OPERATIONS

A. RAOUF, O.V. KETTUNEN

There are about 600 million accommodation units in the world. The maintenance of the accommodation is essentially similar in every country. Research work in accommodation…

A SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION FOR WORLD CULTURE

S.C. DODD, B. WEBB

All cultures have models of the universe. These models explain the structure of the world, the proper structure of society, the important events in life and the relationship of…

DISCRETE‐DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OF ONSET AND PROPAGATION OF MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS (PSP)

YU. ANTOMONOV, A. KOTOVA

The equations take into account structural and geometrical parameters (sizes and a configuration of the synapse, geometrical properties of the neuron membrane, local changes of…

A JUSTIFICATION FOR INFORMATION FUNCTION AS A MEASURE OF DETECTIVE PERFORMANCE

M.C. CHENG

Willmer has suggested earlier to use the information function or a combination of information functions as an alternative measure for the detective performance to replace the…