Kybernetes: Volume 9 Issue 1
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
Contemporary Cybernetics
BIO‐MEDICAL RESEARCH An interactive computer program has been developed by William T. Sawyer of the University of North Carolina (U.S.A.) and Andrew L. Finn of Duke University…
COMPUTER SIMULATION OF HUMAN THOUGHT‐ITS PERSPECTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS
A. SZYMANSKIPerspectives and constraints of computer simulation of human thought depend on the concept of human thinking. For computer simulation purposes thinking is defined as the process…
THE EXTENDED SYSTEM DYNAMICS METHOD AND ITS TOOLS
H. KRALLMANNThe integration of System Dynamics with LP‐ and Input‐Output models is realized by means of simple examples. Aspects of programming techniques as well as the conceptual meaning of…
THE PROCESS OF DYNAMIC INTERFERENCE IN MEMORY ORGANIZATION
E.P. JUGELIThis paper presents the results of experimental research of short‐ and long‐term memory interaction. The long‐term memory is considered to be an active depository of human…
AUTOMATIC SOLUTION OF SORITES
M. ALFONSECAA classical theory of syllogisms is shown that reduces to three‐set theoretical inference rules, which have been used as the basis to produce a sorites (chain argument) solving…
NEUTRALIZING PREJUDICED EVALUATION
D.S. STODOLSKYPrejudice is a critical problem in education. A linear aggregation rule for use on an automatic mediator is shown to neutralize discrimination, motivate fair evaluation and…
FROM ABSOLUTE TO PROBABLE AND FUZZY IN DECISION‐MAKING
JOHN P. VAN GIGCH, L.L. PIPINOGeneral Systems Theory postulates the existence of many general theories that serve to describe isomorphisms across systems. The theory of Fuzzy Sets can be considered as one…
THE BEHAVIOR OF TONIC NEURONS AS PREDICTED BY THE RASHEVSKY‐HILL MODEL
A.B. ENGELA phasic‐like behavior for tonic neurons is predicted by the classical Rashevsky‐Hill Model. The definition of a tonic neuron arises naturally in a clear mathematical way from…
ON CERTAIN MODELS OF RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROBLEMS
J. WE¸GLARZThis paper presents a general model of resource allocation problems based on the concept of the system of the complex of operations type. Using the terminology of this model two…
CYBERNETICS AND GENERAL SYSTEMS— A UNITARY SCIENCE?: (Cybernetics as a base for integrated science teaching)
JOSEPH P. McCOOLThis paper suggests that cybernetics and general systems theory, as a unity science, serve as a unifying language and method in science teaching. As they stand today, our school…
