Kybernetes, Volume 40

Volume 40, Numbers 1/2, 2011

Special Issue: Selected papers from conferences of the Cybernetics Society

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  Bernard Scott, Simon Shurville:
  What is a symbol? 12-22
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  Janos Korn:
  From the systemic view to systems science. 23-46
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  Aleksandar Zivanovic, Stephen Boyd Davis:
  Elegant motion: The Senster and other cybernetic sculptures by Edward Ihnatowicz. 47-62
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  Helmut Nechansky:
  Cybernetics as the science of decision making. 63-79
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  Lance Nizami:
  Memory model of information transmitted in absolute judgment. 80-109
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  Owen Holland, Phil Husbands:
  The origins of British cybernetics: the Ratio Club. 110-123
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  Michael Kennedy:
  Cybernetics and system dynamics: impacts on public policy. 124-140
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  Jon-Arild Johannessen, Bjørn Olsen:
  Aspects of a cybernetic theory of tacit knowledge and innovation. 141-165
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  Mohd Daud Norzaidi, Siong Choy Chong, Mohamed Intan Salwani, Binshan Lin:
  The indirect effects of intranet functionalities on middle managers' performance: Evidence from the maritime industry. 166-181
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  Wei-Lun Chang, Yu-Ting Hong:
  A mixture model to estimate customer value for e-services. 182-199
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  Grahame Blackwell:
  Elementary sub-atomic particles: the earliest adaptive systems. 200-212
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  Xuemou Wu:
  Pansystems 0**-logoi of philosophy, mathematics, technology, systems and society. 213-250
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  Hector Sabelli, Lazar Kovacevic:
  Economic bios. 251-261
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  Xiaojun Duan, Yi Lin:
  1. Conservation law of information and its application in evaluation and estimation of complex systems. 262-274
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  Davorin Kralj:
  Innovative systemic approach for promoting sustainable innovation for zero construction waste. 275-289
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  Anna Jadlovská, Kamil Hrubina:
  Algorithms of optimal control methods for solving game theory problems. 290-299
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  Jafar Keighobadi, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, Mansour Kabganian:
  An enhanced fuzzy H8 estimator applied to low-cost attitude-heading reference system. 300-326
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Second thoughts on global warming. 327-329

Volume 40, Numbers 3/4, 2011

Special Issue: Progress in organisational cybernetics

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  William F. Christopher:
  A new management for enduring company success. 369-393
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  Fouzi M. Ben-Ali:
  Structural design of a national youth and sports information system using the viable system model. 394-404
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  Dirk Vriens, Jan Achterbergh:
  Cybernetically sound organizational structures I: de Sitter's design theory. 405-424
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  Jan Achterbergh, Dirk Vriens:
  Cybernetically sound organizational structures II: Relating de Sitter's design theory to Beer's viable system model. 425-438
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  O. García de la Cerda, C. Mendoza García:
  Enactive management: application of CLEHES and VIPLAN. 439-453
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  Raul Espejo, Daniel Kuropatwa:
  Appreciating the complexity of organizational processes. 454-476
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  Raul Espejo, Zoraida Mendiwelso Bendek:
  An argument for active citizenship and organisational transparency. 477-493
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  Hans Losscher:
  "Being seen as" and "seeing as". 494-506
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  S. A. Harwood:
  Can a cybernetic lens contribute to the business strategy domain? 507-527
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  Peter Ototsky, Sergey Manenkov:
  Cognitive Centres: technology for designing the future: Methodology and implementation experience. 528-535
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  Angela Espinosa, Pedro Pablo Cardoso, Elsa Arcaute, Kim Christensen:
  Complexity approaches to self-organisation: a case study from an Irish eco-village. 536-558
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  Roland Holten, Christoph Rosenkranz:
  Designing viable social systems: The role of linguistic communication for self-organization. 559-580
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  B. H. Rudall:
  Research and development: current impact and future potential. 581-584
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Earthquake prediction, Wolfram Alpha, neuroimaging. 585-588
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  Shuping Wan:
  Applying triangular fuzzy number for multi-sensor object recognition. 589-599
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  Doru Tsaganea:
  A remark on the arms race spiral. 600-607

Volume 40, Numbers 5/6, 2011

Special Issue: Novel approaches for systems modeling

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  Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink, Daniel Dauber:
  Organisations as emergent normative personalities: part 1, the concepts. 635-669
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  Stane Bozicnik, Matjaz Mulej:
  A new - 4th order cybernetics and sustainable future. 670-684
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  Andrej Bertoncelj, Klemen Kavcic:
  Hierarchy orientation in equity alliances: core capabilities perspective. 685-696
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  Uri Fidelman:
  Creativity: relation to neural transmission errors. 697-702
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  Ralf Östermark:
  Hedging with options and cardinality constraints in multi-period portfolio management systems. 703-718
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  Andrew Adamatzky:
  Excitable Delaunay triangulations. 719-735
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  Allaberen Ashyralyev, Betul Hicdurmaz:
  A note on the fractional Schrödinger differential equations. 736-750
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  Sana Abu-Gurra, Vedat Suat Ertürk, Shaher Momani:
  Application of the modified differential transform method to fractional oscillators. 751-761
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  Idris Dag, Aynur Canivar, Ali Sahin:
  Taylor-Galerkin method for advection-diffusion equation. 762-777
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  Doru Tsaganea:
  Tension reduction by military power equalization: the USA-USSR case. 778-788
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  Dongxing Cao, Yanhui Han, Chunxiang Cui, Kaicheng Qi:
  Guiding conceptual design modeling based on product systems analysis. 790-799
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  Dejun Chen, Zude Zhou, Yingzhe Ma, D. T. Pham:
  Design of agent-based supply chain-oriented virtual enterprise platform. 800-806
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  Weihui Dai, Mingqi Chen, Nan Ye:
  Research on the innovation system of China's software industry based on CAS theory. 807-813
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  Lijie Ding, Yijia Cao, Guangzeng Wang, Meijun Liu:
  Dynamical model and analysis of cascading failures on the complex power grids. 814-823
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  Chuan-bin Duan, Peng Chen:
  Broad-spectrum analysis and pansystems methodology. 824-830
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  Qiaolun Gu, Jianhua Ji, Tiegang Gao:
  Pricing decisions for reverse supply chains. 831-841
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  Guo Cai-fen, Jing Ran-zhe:
  Modeling and controlling work-in-progress in discrete manufacturing systems. 842-847
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  Lixin Tao, Yingfan Guo, Weiwei Du:
  Criteria for omnibearing imbalance of macroeconomic system structures and their strategic optimization. 848-853
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  Huang Shaoluo, Liu Woye, Duxiling:
  Study on contingency evolution of acquisition organization systems based on the game group link method. 854-859
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  Jin Zhu, Xingsheng Gu, Wei Gu:
  Robust optimization approach for short-term scheduling of batch plants under demand uncertainty? 860-870
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  Jin Zhu, Xingsheng Gu, Wei Gu:
  Optimal multiperiod scheduling of multiproduct batch plants under demand uncertainty. 871-882
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  Tai Kuang, Qing-Xin Zhu, Yue Sun:
  Edge detection for highly distorted images suffering Gaussian noise based on improve Canny algorithm. 883-893
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  Huaishu Li, Yanhui Lai, Wu Qiang, Xiang Dong:
  Mathematics model and numerical calculation for stability of synchronous generator rectification systems. 894-904
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  Weiwei Li, Zhuo Wang, Jinglian Huang:
  The e-derivative of Boolean functions and its application in the fault detection and cryptographic system. 905-911
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  Zhitang Li, Yang-ming Ma, Li Wang, Jie Lei, Jie Ma:
  A novel real-time aggregation method on network security events. 912-920
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  Kostas Karamanos, Aristotelis Gkiolmas, Constantine Skordoulis:
  Recent developments in the digital approach of symbolic dynamics. 921-925
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  ASC conference, CYBCOM discussion. 926-929

Volume 40, Number 7/8, 2011

Special Issue: Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics - A MetaDisciplinary Conversation: Papers from the 2010 Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics

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  Ranulph Glanville:
  Introduction: a conference doing the cybernetics of cybernetics. 952-963
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  Gary M. Boyd:
  Why the arts need cybernetics for our long-term viability. 976-983
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  Jonas Braasch:
  A cybernetic model approach for free jazz improvisations. 984-994
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  Ron Eglash:
  Multiple objectivity: an anti-relativist approach to situated knowledge. 995-1003
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  Thomas Fischer:
  When is analog? When is digital? 1004-1014
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  Nat Friedman:
  An introduction to hyperseeing and hypersculptures. 1015-1020
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  Dmitry V. Galkin:
  The hypothesis of interactive evolution. 1021-1029
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  Christiane M. Herr:
  Mutually arising abstract and actual. 1030-1037
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  Michael Hohl:
  From abstract to actual: art and designer-like enquiries into data visualisation. 1038-1044
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  Slavik Jablan, Ljiljana Radovic:
  Do you like paleolithic op-art? 1045-1054
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  Timothy Jachna:
  Building(s), cybernetically. 1055-1065
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  Mark Johnson:
  Music, memory and cognition: a cybernetic approach. 1066-1077
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  Faisal L. Kadri:
  The design and validation of an artificial personality. 1078-1089
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  Graziele Lautenschlaeger, Anja Pratschke:
  Don't give up! Media art as an endless conversational process. 1090-1101
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  Lance Nizami:
  Norwich's Entropy Theory: how not to go from abstract to actual. 1102-1118
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  Sylvia M. Rabeler:
  A spatial color-sound model for mixed reality. 1119-1128
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  Gernot Riether:
  Towards digitally integrated urban places. 1129-1136
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  Alec Robertson, Delai Men:
  Future "designing" and the Chinese notions of "Li". 1137-1148
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  Robert Scott:
  Heinz von Foerster's heuristics course: A factor in the development of second-order cybernetics in the United States. 1149-1158
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  Ben Sweeting:
  Conversing with drawings and buildings: from abstract to actual in architecture. 1159-1165
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  Vahid Vahdat Zad:
  Geometric reconstruction of Amir-Chakhmagh Square through backward-perspective. 1166-1178
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  Doug Van Nort:
  Human: machine: human: Gesture, Sound and Embodiment. 1179-1188
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  Claudia Westermann:
  Resonances of the unknown. 1189-1195
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  Joanna Wlaszyn:
  Re-thinking metaphor, experience and aesthetic awareness. 1196-1206
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Climate change again, MIT plans, exoskeleton, WikiLeaks. 1207-1209

Volume 40, Number 9/10, 2011

Special Issue: Forty years of Kybernetes

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  Alex M. Andrew:
  A little known origin of cybernetics and some implications. 1235-1242
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  Bernard Scott:
  Toward a cybernetic psychology. 1247-1257
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  Zdenka Zenko, Matjaz Mulej:
  Diffusion of innovative behaviour with social responsibility. 1258-1272
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  Raul Espejo:
  Seeing a case study through a cybernetic epistemological lens. 1273-1296
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Daisyworld and physiological rein control. 1297-1304
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  Abdul-Majid Wazwaz, Randolph Rach:
  Comparison of the Adomian decomposition method and the variational iteration method for solving the Lane-Emden equations of the first and second kinds. 1305-1318
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  Grahame Blackwell:
  Cosmic system dynamics: a cyberneticist's perspective on gravitation. 1319-1330
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  Gabriel Burstein, Constantin Virgil Negoita:
  Foundations of a postmodern cybernetics based on Kabbalah. 1331-1353
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  Yi Lin, Sifeng Liu:
  Small and large projects: their dynamics and which ones to take. 1354-1372
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  Andrew Adamatzky, Pedro P. B. de Oliveira:
  Brazilian highways from slime mold's point of view. 1373-1394
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  Jon-Arild Johannessen, Bjørn Olsen:
  What creates innovation in a globalized knowledge economy? A cybernetic point of view. 1395-1421
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  Bhushan Kapoor, Pramod Pandya, Joseph S. Sherif:
  Cryptography: A security pillar of privacy, integrity and authenticity of data communication. 1422-1439
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  Milan Jurse, Matjaz Mulej:
  The complexities of business school alignment with the emerging globalisation of business education. 1440-1458
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  Minghu Ha, Jiqiang Chen, Witold Pedrycz, Lu Sun:
  Bounds on the rate of convergence of learning processes based on random sets and set-valued probability. 1459-1485
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  Wenjun Wang, Yi Lin, Jubo Zhu:
  Interest models and applications in analyzing the rise and decline of Qing dynasty. 1486-1502
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  Andrej Skraba, Miroljub Kljajic, Peter Papler, Davorin Kofjac, Mitja Obed:
  Determination of recruitment and transition strategies. 1503-1522
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  Alena I. Aleksenko, Evgeny Lakshtanov:
  Examples of admissible simplification of mathematical theories. 1523-1529
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  Tsu-Ming Yeh:
  Constructing a production exception handling system for the semiconductor manufacturing process. 1530-1542
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  B. H. Rudall:
  Changing technology. 1543-1546
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  Alex M. Andrew:
  Rare elements and ecology. 1547-1549