Cybernetics and Systems Research '92
The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:
VOLUME 1
Preface
General Systems Methodology
Principles of Systems and Cybernetics: An Evolutionary Perspective
Constructive Systems Theory: Process and Model
Probability–Possibility Conversions: An Empirical Study
A New Information Theoretic Framework for a General Theory of Complexity
Towards a Law of Optimum Variety
Is the Representation of Uncertainty the Main Issue?
Is Multiple Knowledge Beneficial?
Conceptualization of General Systems Structures Through Computer Techniques
The Coordination in Large–Scale Control Systems: Ordering a Chaos
Causality Detection
Using a Data–Oriented Approach to Decide on Similarity of Objects During Domain Analysis
Social – Technical – Neural – Networks (A Mathematical Morphology)
The “Epsilon–Distribution” or the Antithesis of Dirac's Delta
A Cybernetic View of Cellular Catalytic Processes
Immune Network and Adaptive Control
Mathematical Systems Theory
Decomposition of a System Described by a Logical Model
Analysing Time Aspects of Dynamic Systems
Causality and Non–Determinism
Sensitivity Analysis of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Petri Nets and Disturbance Decoupling of Discrete–Event Dynamic Systems
Asynchronous Automata: Differential Equations, the Technical Condition of Good Running and the Stability
Wilhelm Cauer – An Early Founder of System Synthesis
Charles Proteus Steinmetz and the Complex Number System
State Feedback Regulation of a Class of Uncertain Time Delay Systems under Sliding Mode
Filtering in Stochastic Systems Described by Volterra Integral Equations
Functional Transforms in Multidimensional Systems Theory
Output Feedback Control of Uncertain Time Delay Systems
Premature Sampling – An Analogy to the Pole Assignment for the Saturating Minimum Time Systems
Simulation of Large Scale Stochastic Systems
Two–Layer Control of Interconnected Systems with Time Delays and a Condition for Asymptotic Stability of the Overall System
A Trajectory–Related Geometric Insight on State Feedback Derived from Ackermann's Formula
A Note on the Parallel Multi–Agent Planning Systems
Decisions under Risk in Case of Risk–Averse Decision–Maker
Application of the Genetic Algorithm to a Simplified Form of the Phase Problem
Computer Aided Process Interpretation
Interpretable Process Models for Software Development and Administration
Optimisation Cycle: a Concept for Optimal Software Development
A Meta Model to Support Modelling and Execution of Processes
Power Systems Diagnosis and Restoration: A Knowledge Based Approach
Fuzzy Sets, Approximate Reasoning and Knowledge–based Systems
On Some Metascientific Aspects of Fuzzy Set Theory
On the Fuzzy Logic and the Fuzzy Modal Logic
Towards New Approach to Continuous Fuzzy Logic
One Fundamental Formula of Fuzzy Logical Algebra
Fuzzy Connectives and Quantum Models
Fuzzy Informational Approach to Quantum Mechanics
The Extension of Fuzzy T–conorm Measures
Some Properties of Alpha–Cuts of Fuzzy Predicates
Fuzzy Relations on a Set of Objects Evaluated in Different Scales
Lattice Structure on L–Fuzzy Modules
Fuzzy Number–Valued Fuzzy Integral of Fuzzy Number–Valued Function with Respect to Fuzzy Number–Valued Fuzzy Measure on Fuzzy Set
Fuzzy Observables and the Ergodic Theory
On Levi–Like Theorem, Borel–Cantelli Lemma and Lusin Theorem to Fuzzy Measure and Fuzzy Integral
Feasibility and Pareto Optimality for Multiobjective Nonlinear Programming Problems with Fuzzy Decision Variables and Fuzzy Parameters
A Fuzzy Approach to One Multiobjective Decision Making Problem
Some Extensions of Optimization with Interdependent Multiple Criteria
A Solution Concept Based on Fuzzy Decisions in n–person Cooperative Games
Distribution of Uncertainty and Decision Making
Application of the Fuzzy Set Theory for Optimal Choice of a Contractor for a Project Realization
Interactive Project Selection Based on Fuzzy Group Choice
On Construction of Fuzzy Membership Functions in Group Decision Making under the IDSS Environment
Semantically Dependent Fuzzy Set Operations and Inference Relations
Stability in GDSS under Fuzzy Production Rules
A Method of Calculating the Membership Degrees for Symptoms in Diagnostic Decisions
An Implementation of Fuzzy Control Algorithms in FLISP
Attempts at Comparing Expert Systems with Uncertainty
Contextual Technology for Supporting Decision Making
Why Belief Functions are Effective? Consideration of Examples
Beliefs and Probability in Bacchus' l.p. Logic: A 3–Valued Logic Solution to Apparent Counter–Intuition
PERFEXT: Possibilistic Evidential Reasoning Fuzzy EXperT
Projections for Knowledge Based Systems
Designing and Systems
Designing Social Systems in a Changing World: A Search for Evidence of “Goodness of Fit”
A System Behind the Ancient Greek Design
Methodological Perspectives on Human Systems, Design, and Learning for a More Global Ethic
The Perils in Systems Design and Implementation
Philosophy and/or Psychology of Discovery – a Reinterpretation
On Models and Retroductive Inference
The Logic of Inventors' Thinking
On Figural Conceptualization in Architectural Design
Empirical Sense of Practical Attitude
Using the Systems Approach in the Classroom: Open Teaching/Learning
Structural Invariants in the Problems of Designing and Quality Assurance of Systems
Computer–Aided Software Engineering Tools: Do Structured Methodologies Limit Their Potential?
An Interactive System for Support of Generating and Making Decisions in Design
Building Value Measures Based on Quality of Occasion and Image
Humanity, Architecture and Conceptualization
The Second Disorder: The Amsterdam School
A Succinct Summary of Novel Theories
Metaphorical Structure of the Self
The ‘In’ and the ‘Out’: An Evolutionary Approach
Non–Literal Aspects of Language and Knowledge Structuring
On the Nature of Design
Biocybernetics and Mathematical Biology
Toward a Learning Boolean Net: Some Cybernetic Rules
Cybernetic Learning of Task Sequences
The Structure of Rods: A Case of Natural Engineering
Modelling of Retinal Comet–Like After Images
Mathematical Aspects of Neuronal Oscillatory Systems
Modelling of Pacemaker Oscillations in Thalamocortical Neurones
Response Characteristics of the BVP Oscillator to Periodic Input Pulse Trains
Some Neuronal Models with Oscillatory Input
On Two Neuronal Diffusion Models
Towards “Realistic” Models of Neural Networks: Exactly Solvable Cable Model for Dendritic Neurons
A Regulative Network Model of Immune Response
A Physical Picture of Umezawa's Quantum Brain Dynamics
The Image Function and Some Visual Illusions
Modelling Black Grouse Populations in Northern Italy
FORSTKN – A Simulation Model of the Combined Effect of SO2 – and N–Immission Load on Pine Forest Ecosystems Using the Simulation System SONCHES
Instantaneous Return Process and Neuronal Firings
On the Non–Exit Problem for Some Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Statistical Inference About Multidimensional Lognormal Diffusion Process with Multivariate Exogenous Factors and Applications
On the Construction of Transition Densities for Multidimensional Diffusion Processes
Intelligent System for Image Analysis in Biophysical Research
Knowledge–Based Modelling of Biophysical Experiments
Machine Modelling of deBroile's Wave of Particle
A Global Model of Human Mentality
VOLUME 2
Cybernetics in Medicine
Model–Based Determination of Renal Clearance from Temporal Venous Plasma Profiles of Markers
A Computer Neuronal Model
Heart Rate Variability as a Potential Predictor of Cardiac Death: A Comparison of Spectral and Non–Spectral Parameters
Computer Assisted Medical Decision Making
Simulation of Radioligand Binding–Assays
Medical Data Processing in a Large University Hospital: Implementing a Distributed Information System
Sample Size Determination in Clinical Trials for Estimation of Minimum Survival Times
Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems
Macro–Economics: Applications within an Econometric Control System
Decision Suport System for Negotiations on Financing of the Public Divisible Good
Are Changes in Public Sector Prices Destabilising? Some Results from Experiments in Optimal Control
Macroeconomic Effects of Austrian Budgetary Policies: Simulation Experiments with a Small Econometric Model
Managing the Organizational Aspect of Societal Development
Modelling of Human Institutions by Networks of Automatons with Relations
A Dialog Presentation of Census Results by Means of the Probabilistic Expert System PES
Model of Adaptive, Historical and Multidimensional Social Learning
Stochastic Control of Macroeconomic Models with Measurement Error
Systems, Management and Organization
Toward a Theory of Organizational Change: The Chaos Hypothesis
Innovation … Chaos?
Organizational Levels, Behavioral Systems Levels, and Holomanagement: An Integrated Systems Approach to Management
Organizational Structure: Defining Process Management
Reaching out for Heterarchy (A Study of the Reorganizing of a Norwegian Shipyard)
Stories and Scientific Enquiry
Competence and the Observational Language
On the Concept of Organizational Flexibility
Governance: Using Complexity, Dynamics and Variety
Actors and Externally Legitimated Social Systems
Evaluating the Management Cybernetics Modelling of Organizations
Towards a Strategy of Scenario Development for Negotiating Futures
Electronic Data Interchange as a Mean for Enhancing Competitiveness of Firms
Managing Electronic Data Interchange
Research Opportunities in the Electronic Data Interchange Area
Does EDI Contribute to Innovation Potential of Business Systems?
Local Response Versus Global Impact (LR–GI) Assessment Using Decision Tree Diagrams
An Interactive Approach for Investment Decision Making
Information and Control Complex of a Distributed System
Cybernetics of National Development
Systems Metaphors, Systems Analogies and Present Changes in International Relations
Three Years of Confirmation of a Finding: Bigenerational Cycles of the Transitions from the Pre–Industrial to a Modern Society
Perestroika and Databases
Nationalism as Ideology, Nationalism as Emotion, and the Pitfalls of National Development
Reframing the Political Systems in Eastern Europe: New Systemic Demands on the Operation of Democracy
Modelling National Budgets: A Cybernetic and Axiological Approach
A System Dynamics Model for the Late German Democratic Republic
What Is to Be Done? Learning Democracy While Improving Organizations
Towards a General Theory of Rule Determined Human Systems
Communication and Computers
Trouble Communication Model in a Software Development Project
Graphical User Interfaces for Object–Oriented Database Systems
A Design Method for Small Real–Time Distributed Systems
Discussion of EDIFACT Subsets for Small and Medium–Sized Enterprises
An Analysis of Transaction Behaviour in Large IMS Environment
Development of a Non–Synthetic Database Benchmark
Network Reliability and Inner–Four–Cycle Graphs
External Sort by Block Rearrangement
Connectionism and Cognitive Processing
Conflict Detection in Asynchronous Winner–Take–All Structures
Weightless Neurons and Categorisation Modelling
Semantic Transitions in a Hierarchical Memory Network
Type Generalisations on Distributed Representations
Non–Conceptual Content and Parallel Distributed Processing: A Match Made in Cognitive Science Heaven?
Aspects of Rules and Connectionism
Sub–Symbolic Inference: Inferring Verb Meaning
Mental Models in Connectionist Networks
Connectionism and the Issue of Compositionality and Systematicity
The Causal Role of the Constituents of Superpositional Representations
EMG/EEG Pattern Recognition by Neural Networks
Simulation of Navigation of Mobile Robots with Non–Centralized Neuromorphic Control
Weightless and Threshold–Controlled Neurocomputing
Neural Networks Learning with Genetic Algorithms
Intelligent Autonomous Systems
Vision Based Intelligent Control of Autonomous Vehicles
Coarsely Grained Multiprocessor Image Processing System Coupled with a Transputer Network
Reasoning about Motion and Scene Structure for Visual Navigation
Representation of Large–Scale Spatial Environments
Adaptive Visual Control of an Autonomous Vehicle
AutonoMouse: Learning to Survive in an Unknown Environment
A Modified Potential Field Method for Mobile Robot Path Planning
An Architecture for an Intelligent Autonomous Production Environment
Workcell Task Planning and Control
Application of a Certain AI Technique to Trajectory Planning of Robot's Manipulator
Fuzzy Logic in Control Systems
Robust Manipulator Control Based on Passivity Formalism
Messages as Qualitative Fields
Using System Specification Formalisms for Intelligent Autonomous System Modelling and Simulation
Artificial Intelligence
A Subsumption Architecture for Generative Symbol Systems
A Deontic Logic System Based on the Extended Kripke Structure
A Logical Formalism for Dynamic Systems
Failure Analysis in Constructive Matching Methodology: A Step Towards Autonomous Program Synthesizing Systems
Incremental Algebraic Concept Learning
Intensional Definition of Roughly Represented Concepts
Theoretical (Mathematical or Symbolic) Ontology as a Foundation of Encyclopedic Intelligent Systems
Body–Based Learning Using Percept Agents
A Cognitive Paradigm for Understanding Patterns in Presence of Multiple Sources of Knowledge
Knowledge and Data Concepts in AI
Lessons of the Pattern View of Knowledge
The True Reasons for the Incredible Functioning of Expert Systems
Augmented Goal Achievement in Process Control Systems
Architecture of an Expert System for Quality Assurance in Individual Production of Complex Mechanical Products
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
The Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence Systems
Medium Term Impacts of Natural Language Systems
An Evaluation Approach to Deploy Medical Diagnostic Expert System
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Avoidance of War
Author Index
Subject Index
