Kybernetes, Volume 35

Volume 35, Numbers 1/2, 2006

Special Issue: Cybernetics and public administration

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  John G. I. Clarke:
  Transcending organisational autism in the UN system response to HIV/AIDS in Africa. 10-24
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  D. Dewhurst:
  Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management. 25-29
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  A. Espinosa:
  A cybernetic re-evaluation of socio-economic development programs. 30-44
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  Karl-Gustav Hansson:
  Improving national accounts. 45-64
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  Luc Hoebeke:
  Identity: the paradoxical nature of organizational closure. 65-75
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  Allenna Leonard:
  Momentum and control: a dynamic of democracy. 76-89
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  Andrey Sergeyev, Alfredo Moscardini:
  Governance of economic transitions: a case study of Ukraine. 90-107
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  Leonie Solomons, Alfredo Moscardini:
  A cybernetic diagnosis of Sri Lanka's 2002-2003 peace negotiations. 108-123
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  Paul A. Stokes:
  Identity: articulating cybernetics and sociology. 124-147
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  Rod Thomas:
  An ABC of British higher education. 148-163
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  Ralf-Eckhard Türke:
  Towards productive and sustainable forms of interaction in governance. 164-181
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  Steve Wright:
  A systems approach to analysing sub-state conflicts. 182-194
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  Marcela Villarreal:
  HIV/AIDS: a threat to the viability of the societies it attacks. 195-208
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  Brian H. Rudall:
  Contemporary systems and cybernetics: Innovative applications. 209-216
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Cybernetics and systems on the web. 217-219

Volume 35, Numbers 3/4, 2006

Special Issue: Festschrift for Felix Geyer

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  Vessela Misheva:
  The cold war within a sociological systems perspective. 286-307
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  Bernard Scott:
  Reflexivity revisited: the sociocybernetics of belief, meaning, truth and power. 308-316
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  Lauren Langman:
  Thank you Felix Geyer. 317-322
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  Bernd R. Hornung:
  Happiness and the pursuit of happiness: A sociocybernetic approach. 323-346
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  Richard Jung:
  Thinking about experience and action. 347-359
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  Eva Buchinger:
  The sociological concept of autopoiesis: Biological and philosophical basics and governance relevance. 360-374
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  Kenneth D. Bailey:
  Sociocybernetics and social entropy theory. 375-384
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  Cor van Dijkum, Johannes J. F. Schroots:
  The challenge of the past for the future of the social sciences. 385-402
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  Søren Brier:
  The necessity of trans-scientific frameworks for doing interdisciplinary research: Developed from a conference paper for paradigms lost and paradigms gained: negotiating interdisciplinarity in the twenty-first century, Calgary, May 2001. 403-425
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  Johannes van der Zouwen:
  Sociocybernetics and testability: a bridge too far? 426-432
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  Gerard de Zeeuw:
  A forgotten message? von Bertalanffy's puzzle. 433-440
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  Jozica Knez-Riedl, Matjaz Mulej, Robert G. Dyck:
  Corporate social responsibility from the viewpoint of systems thinking. 441-460
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  Richard E. Lee:
  Social knowledge for a world in transition: Sociocybernetics and the contemporary transformation of the structures of knowledge. 461-470
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  Czeslaw Mesjasz:
  Complex systems studies and the concepts of security. 471-488
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  John Wood:
  Is Kevin Warwick a dandy?: Observation, self-control and the evolution of perception-steering mechanisms. 489-496
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  Arne Kjellman:
  The crisis of contemporary science. 497-521
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  Devorah Kalekin-Fishman:
  Studying alienation: toward a better society? 522-530
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  Loet Leydesdorff:
  The biological metaphor of a second-order observer and the sociological discourse. 531-546
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  Michaël Deinema, Loet Leydesdorff:
  The two faces of American power: Military and political communication during the Cuban missile crisis. 547-566
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  Juan Miguel Aguado:
  The vicarious self: Media and individual experience in the context of societal complexity reduction. 567-582
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Cybernetics and systems on the web: Jerry Wiesner and MIT. 583-585

Volume 35, Number 5, 2006

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  Brian H. Rudall, C. J. H. Mann:
  Advances in the development of semantic e-business. 613-615
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  Kevin Curran, Michelle Casey:
  Expressing emotion in electronic mail. 616-631
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  Nijaz Bajgoric:
  Information systems for e-business continuance: a systems approach. 632-652
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  Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos, Nikolaos K. Dimitriou:
  A cybernetic framework for viable virtual enterprises: The use of VSM and PSM systemic methodologies. 653-667
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  Janet K. Durgin, Joseph S. Sherif:
  Effects of unsolicited e-mail on the virtual business world. 668-679
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  Mario Iván Tarride:
  A method for systems definition. 680-687
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  Francisco Maciá Pérez, Juan Manuel García Chamizo:
  Mobile agent system framework suitable for scalable networks. 688-699
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  Uri Fidelman:
  The electrostatic force and the annihilation of particles and antiparticles: A cybernetical approach. 700-712
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  Elena Landaburu, Leandro Pardo:
  Weighted (h, φ)-divergences in goodness-of-fit with composite null hypotheses. 713-725
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  Abdelouahab Kadem:
  Study of the connexity of the set of affine controllable systems. 726-734
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  Miguel Lloret-Climent:
  A connection between derivates and processes. 735-742
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  Francisco Gallego Lupiáñez:
  On intuitionistic fuzzy topological spaces. 743-747
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Two mathematical notes - new homogenised Simpson's rules and a riffle shuffle conjecture. 748-752
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  Khosrow Maleknejad, H. Mesgarani:
  New methods for solving of nonlinear weakly singular integral equations. 753-760

Volume 35, Number 6, 2006

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  Brian H. Rudall, C. J. H. Mann:
  Cybernetics and the trends in robotics developments 2004-2008. 775-782
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  UK cybernetics society, medical cybernetics, cave art. 783-785
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  Louise Wennberg, Patrik Brandt, Péter Révay:
  Information security - an application of a systems approach. 786-796
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  Yasser Hassan, Eiichiro Tazaki:
  Emergence decision using hybrid rough sets/cellular automata. 797-813
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  Ajith Abraham, Sonja Petrovic-Lazarevic, Ken Coghill:
  EvoPOL: a framework for optimising social regulation policies. 814-824
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  Patricia Compañ, Rosana Satorre, Ramón Rizo:
  A cybernetic multiresolution system for disparity estimation in stereo vision. 825-836
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  Josep Lluis Usó-Domènech, Francisco Vives-Macià, Jorge Mateu:
  Regular grammars of L(MT): a language for ecological systems modelling (I) - part I. 837-850
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  Petia Sice, Ian French:
  A holistic frame-of-reference for modelling social systems. 851-864
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  Alvis Cheuk M. Fong, Siu Cheung Hui:
  A virtual electronic trading system for business-to-business e-commerce. 865-879
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  Anders Malmsjö:
  A sketch of a methodology for designing supportive information systems. 880-898
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  Sifeng Liu, Yi Lin:
  On measures of information content of grey numbers. 899-904
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  S. Manseur, Yves Cherruault:
  Optimal control of cancer chemotherapy model using the coupled Adomian/Alienor methods. 905-914
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  Chiara Certomà:
  Ecology, environmentalism and system theory. 915-921