Kybernetes: Volume 9 Issue 4
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The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciencesTable of contents
ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS OF INFORMATION, DECISION AND CONTROL, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LARGE‐SCALE POLICY AND PLANNING
HAJIME MYOKENThis paper investigates how macroeconomic policy and planning of large‐scale dynamic systems are approached from the cybernetic principle, as can be viewed in the interplay of…
A SYSTEM‐THEORETICAL APPROACH TO DATABASE SYSTEMS
A.M. TJOA, R.R. WAGNERThe various aspects of database systems are formalized. An information base is described as a projection of the real world which follows certain semantical constraints. The…
THE DECOMPOSITION OF TOLERANCE AUTOMATA
A. MUIR, M.W. WARNERTolerance automata are defined and a decomposition theory for such entities is sought. It is shown that two major procedures of the classical algebraic theory produce difficulties…
ECOLOGICAL RATIONALITY BEYOND CYBERNETICS
BARRINGTON NEVITTWhereas analogical relations characterized preliterate rationality, logical connections mark literate reasoning. As we enter post‐literate cultures via instant electric media…
WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
J. BENEŠMajor past achievements of Cybernetics are: the theory of servomechanisms and the information theoretical approach in molecular biology. Aspects of energy are treated in…
WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
R.H. ANDERTONCybernetics, the attempt to recreate mental phenomena in terms of physical action, is considered in three stages corresponding to the three decades since 1948. The first decade…
WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
A.M. ANDREWThe meaning and connotations of cybernetics are reviewed with the conclusion that complex adaptive systems are the central theme. Formal and informal approaches are contrasted and…
WHITHER CYBERNETICS— PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
H.‐G. LAUENROTHThe object of research of cybernetics is represented in the concrete field of modelling processes and systems of control and information in economics; it is described in graphic…
