Kybernetes: Volume 8 Issue 4

NORBERT WIENER AWARDS: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION (THIRD SERIES—1979)

NORBERT WIENER AWARDS The International Journal of Cybernetics and General Systems, Kybernetes, has established an annual award consisting of three prizes: (U.S. S500, S300, S200…

Contemporary Cybernetics

B.H. RUDALL

APPLICATIONS OF MICROPROCESSORS TO INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES Controlling an industrial process using a large central main frame machine, or even an hierarchy of such machines, is…

THE LAW OF REQUISITE HIERARCHY

A.Y. AULIN‐AHMAVAARA

A cybernetic theory of hierarchical social systems is given, starting from an extension of Ashby's general theory of regulation and control to amplifying regulation. Regulation…

THREE ASPECTS OF INFORMATIONAL PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

O.G. CHORAYAN

Methods are presented for the quantitative calculation of the amount of statistical, semantic and pragmatic information in the summary information flow in communication systems…

THE CHROMOSOMES AS FEEDBACK SYSTEMS IN EVOLUTION

C.D. DARLINGTON

All organisms carry their hereditary and evolutionary properties in the genetic code of their genotype. Changes arise in this genotype in unlimited variety and every change has…

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING WITH FUZZY CONSTRAINTS AND A PREFERENCE ON THE OBJECTIVE

R.R. YAGER

We investigated a fuzzy programming problem in which the constraints are a fuzzy subset over the alternatives and the objective is in the form of a linear ordering. A fuzzy subset…

PARALLEL COMPUTING AND THE SOLUTION OF Ax = b

M.H. MICKLE, W.G. VOGT

Classical numerical techniques are used to incorporate parallel processing in a fast method for solving simultaneous linear equations, Ax = b. The results show a tradeoff of…

Establishing Valid Arguments by Computer and Storing their Meanings: a Premiss of form A of Aristotelian Logic

ELDO C. KOENIG

Important to the performance of interactive systems is the ability of its members to establish valid arguments. The type of arguments discussed here contains a premiss of form A…

PROGRAMMING AN INDUSTRIAL ROBOT IN ITALIAN

M. BERNORIO, M. BERTONI, A. DABBENE, M. SOMALVICO

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some considerations about the problem of Natural Language Understanding with respect to the particular semantic domain of Robotics. The…

EXPERIMENTS IN MINI‐MAX DECISION‐MAKING PROBLEMS

G.S. PASHKOVSKI

The process of decision‐making in a situation of uncertainty is examined; it is assumed that it is possible to obtain additional information with the help of some additional…