Kybernetes: Volume 8 Issue 3

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

AUTOMATION Westinghouse Electric continues its research project into automated assembly lines. The Company has been awarded $1.4 million by the U.S. National Science Foundation to…

RISK MINIMIZATION BY LINEAR FEEDBACK

S. STÖPPLER

This paper offers an introduction to dynamic economic planning under uncertainty, i.e. the use of econometric models together with mathematical optimization methods for the…

APPLICATIONS OF ULTRASTABILITY

M.R. WALLACE

Ross Ashby's concept of ultrastability in a cybernetic system is shown to have certain mathematical properties of considerable importance for workers in operational research and…

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE USE OF STATE‐SPACE REPRESENTATIONS FOR MULTIVARIABLE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND THE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES

H. MYOKEN

This paper offers various state‐space representations in the context of applications of the system control theory to dynamic economic systems and examines interrelationships…

COALITION ANALYSIS WITH FUZZY SETS

B. SPILLMAN, J. BEZDEK, R. SPILLMAN

After noting several limiting features and procedural disadvantages of typical game theoretic studies of coalition formation, a new measurement procedure based on fuzzy set theory…

NOTES ON REGULATION AND CONTROL

A.Y. AULIN‐AHMAVAARA

After some critical notes on the long‐term regulation, requisite structure and requisite constitution as discussed by D. Sahal (Kybernetes 7, No. 1, 19–24, 1978), it is pointed…

A PLAN FORMATION SYSTEM FOR ASSEMBLY ROBOTS

G. GUIDA, P. RIVERA

This paper is devoted to a manipulation theory for industrial robots. The proposed knowledge representation model is based on a simple algebraic formalism and is shown to be…

WHEREOF ONE CANNOT SPEAK: An Informal Outline for an Effective Theory of Art

M.J. ROSENBERG

A working art machine would embody an effective theory of art. What capacities would it need? It is suggested that authorship entails transmitting order and creative authorship…