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