Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems

Symposium on "Social Systems".- A Theoretical Analysis of Higher states of Consciousness and Meditation.- Modelling and Simulation of Macro-Social Systems for Cybernetic Purposes.- The Potential in Simulation of Macro-Social Processes or How to be a Useful Builder of Simulation Models.- Simulation-Reality: A Feedback Loop.- Simulation of Large-Scale Systems by Aggregation.- Symposium on "Computer Privacy".- To be Effective, Privacy Needs Security!.- Computer Privacy-Regulatory Aspects.- Computers and the Law of Privacy: The American Experience.- Privacy in the Future Information Society.- Symposium on "Robots".- Robotics and Society.- The Future of Robotics.- Telechirics.- Industrial Robot Today-Structure and Application.- Section 1-Artificial Intelligence.- A Note on the Construction of Hadamard Matrices.- Automatic Solution of Syllogisms and Sorites.- Role of Elongatedness in Digital Figure Compression.- On a Learning System.- Machine Intelligence and a Constructive Epistemology.- Designing C. A. I. on Some Ideas of Artificial Intelligence.- The Model's Dimensions: A Form for Argument.- Theory of Model Dimensions to Relational Databases.- Representation of the Environment in a Complex Heterogeneous Stationary Random Medium.- Interactive Mobile Automata: Deterministic Models.- Elements of a Cybernetic Theory of Purposiveness.- The Mechanics Problem Solver: A Problem and Goal-Driven Inferencing System.- Using Transducer Tremor to Refine Gray Level Images.- Artificial Intelligence Structure Based on Associative Space.- An AI Archetype.- Using Natural Language in a CAI System: The Knowledge Base.- A Model for Knowledge Acquisition Systems with Problem Solver.- Communication Predicates: A Complete Strategy for Resolution-Based Theorems-Provers: An Evaluation of an Implementation.- Optimal Information Reduction Systems Require Multi-Layer-Structures.- Automatic Error Detection in Natural Language Words.- Cybernetics and Conceptual Analysis.- Negative Goals and Forbidden States.- Efficient Measurement Selection in Invariant Pattern Recognition.- Mental Set Revisited in the Formal Manner.- On the Problem of Representation.- Section 2-Cybernetics of Economic Systems and Management.- Cybernetic Approach to the Management of Economic Systems.- Evolution of an Input-Output Leontief Matrix.- The Correspondence System as a Method of Interdependence Measurement in Comparative Development Analyses.- Applied Entropic Concepts for Establishing the Organisational Level in Machines Building Enterprises.- The National Economy, as a Material Stock and Flow System.- Asymptotical Investigation of the Virtual Waiting Time for Priority Queues in a Busy Store.- Systematic and Goal-Oriented Targets for Systems Planning.- Limits to Modeling and Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems in an Economy: Towards Another Operations Research.- Development and Implementation of a Hierarchical Computer Aided Company Planning System.- Cybernetics of Technology and Economic Growth.- Managing a Steady-State Firm. A Cybernetic Framework.- Controlled Problem Solving in Management.- System Simulation and Cybernetics Affirm Potential of Low Cost Solar Power.- Algorithmic Systems with Hierarchical Structure for Control of Economic Processes.- The Environmental Effects of Economical Growth-A Two-Level Mathematical Model.- The Choice of Policies in Socioeconomic Systems by System Dynamics (Presentation of a Real Case).- "Resistance" Towards Change and Its Effect on Decision-Making.- Economic Cybernetics of Informatics: Decision and Control.- A System Modelling for the World Economy and Control Simulation Analysis: A Two-Country Case.- Information Structure of Multi-Level Planning Processes in Self Management Environment.- The Development of Management Systems for Data Banks with Facilities for Calculations on Tree-Like Information Structures.- Self-Management Social Welfare Model.- Stochastic Experiments with an Econometric Model.- Some Remarks on the Theorem of Gnedenko and Soloviev.- An Analytical Model for the Material Transformation Process.- Information Systems for Self Management.- The Role of the Motivation System in the Optimization of Complex Economic System.- Theory and Practice with a System Dynamics Model of the U.K. Economy.- Computational Experiments with an Economic System Model.- A Cost Abatement Model of the River Tees (in the U.K.).- On Certain Models of Resource Allocation Problems.- Section 3-Industrial Cybernetics.- Some Aspects of Automated Quality Control.- On the Dual Adaptive Control of Stochastic Systems.- An Application of the Bajureanu-Buda Criteria in On-Off Control Systems.- Algorithms for Direct Digital Control and their Implementation on Micro-Computers.- The Stability of Large-Scale Systems in the Face of Small Perturbations.- Information and Coherence in Large-Scale Energy System Design.- Decision Tables in Computer-Aided Engineering Projects.- A New Method for Optimizing Systems with Bounded-State Variables 125.- Adaptive Control via Input Matching Despite Plant Structure Uncertainty.- Application of Some Rules of Propositional Calculus to the Design of Digital Systems: Introduction and Elimination Rules.- Stability of Correct Reasoning.- A Compiler Technique for Modelling Multiprocessor Systems Utilising Microprocessors of Arbitrary Architecture.- A Model System for the Management of Discontinuous Processes in a Production Sector.- Man's Reliability Under Operator Stress.- Section 4-Informatics and Education.- The Information System for Educational Management Activity.- Evolution Through Learning: An Image-Making Oriented Approach.- Automatic Database Mapping and Translation Methods.- Concept of P-Information.- Automatic Detection and Recognition of Vowels in Continuous Speech.- Towards a Scientific Theory of Pedagogy.- An Automatic Information System for Self-Learning.- Psycho-Cybernetics of Human Behaviour with Special Reference to Learning Deficiency in Children.- Simulation of Free Will.- A Cybernetic Teaching System for Undergraduate Engineers.- Some Systems Concepts and Educational Systems Development.- Psycho-Cultural Cybernetics: The Psycho-Dynamic Cybernetics of Acculturation.- Learning as Decoding.- Modelling of Computer Communication Networks via Probabilistic Automata.- Diversity and Unity in Cybernetics.- A Model of a Document Retrieval System Based on the Conception of Semantic Disjunctive Normal Form.- Information, Entropy and Knowledge.- Analysis of Nonstationary Data-Sets by Information-Filtering.- A Cybernetic Approach to the Specification and Interfacing of Software Modules.- Learning Through New Information-A changing Structure Oriented Approach.- Cybernetic Approach to Escape Learning in Toads.- Universally Shared Attributes of Human Behaviour.- Application of the Structure Theory in Learning Systerns.- Section 5-Neuro and Bio-Cybernetics.- A Model for the Regulation of Agonistic-Antagonistic Couple in the Field of Medical Therapeutics, Mathematical Study and Other Applications.- Theoretical Analysis of Bronchial Elasticity and Regional Inequalities in the Ventilation Mechanism.- Analytical Solution of a Respiration Model.- Cybernetic Elucidation of the Nerve Action Potential.- The Cybernetics of Human Physical Performance.- Combinatory Spaces and Memory.- Simulation of Disturbed Cell Renewal Systems by Means of a Microprocessor System.- Operating Model of the Nephron.- A Thermodynamic Definition of the Computer and Its Application to Biological Systems.- Application of Optimized Parallel Processing Digital Computers and Numerical Approximation Methods to the Ultra-High Speed Three Dimensional Reconstruction of the Intact Thorax.- The Cybernetics of Musical Appreciation.- Energy-Information Performance Criteria of Walking.- Multichannel Analysis of Intracellular Control and Intercellular Transfer of Molecules.- On the Development of a Twin Exponential Model Fitting Process.- An Automatic Picture Processing Method for Tracking and Quantifying the Dynamics of Blood Cell Motion.- Optimal Control of Haemodynamical Parameters in Heart Disease.- Bio- and Neurocybernetic Models of the Living Being.- A Generalized Model for Non-Linear Retinal Processing.- A Program Framework for Experimenting with Retinal Models.- The Use of the Medical Record as Feedback Control For Medical Information Centers.- Communication Between Two Self-Organising Systerns Modelled by Controlled Markov Chains.- A Program Library for Computing the Parameters of Linear Compartment Models in Pharmacokinetics.- Variable Random Nerve Nets.- Input Stimulus Design for Model Discrimination in Human Respiratory Control.- Study of the Nervous Command During Walking.- Adaptive Filters and Eye Movements in Perception.- Section 6-Social Systems.- Achievement as an Analysis Unit for Studying Sociocultural Systems.- A System Model of Energy-Focused Environmental Education.- A Systems Model for the Analysis of Industrial Democracy Reforms.- Computer-Simulation of Social Systems: A Survey.- Control Theory and Social Change: Toward a Synthesis of the System and Action Approaches.- The Technological Environment and Organisation Boundary Conditions: A Theoretical Discussion of Opening and Closing Phenomena with Design Implications.- Are Societies Turing Machines? Some Implications of the Cyclical Majority Problem, An N.P. Complete Problem for Cybernetic Models of Social Systems.- Redundancy in Natural Language Processing.- Political Attention and Government Stimulation of the Economy.- Actors, Games and Systems: The Dialectics of Social Action and System Structuring.- Methodology and Epistemology for Second Order Cybernetics.- A Semiotic Model of Society as a Learning Process.- Central Decision-Making in Pluralistic Systems.- Toward a Theory of Artifacts in the Survey-Interview.- A Formalization of the Cognitive Dissonance Theory.- Simulation and Its Application to the Behaviour of Social Systems.- The Verification of the Systems Theory by Philosophy.- The Participant-Observer Reviewed.- A Siggs Information Theoretic Characterization of Qualitative Knowing: Cybernetic and Siggs Theory Models.- A Systems-Formalism for Human Attributions.- Boom-Town Bust-Town: A Systems Model for Societal Exploitation.- Disciplinary Prestige and the Accuracy of Social Predictions as a Deviation-Amplifying Feedback.- The Method of Interactive Simulation.- Nutrition Planning for Aid to the Poor: An Application of the Policy Delphi Methodology.- Social Gaming and Control by Dislocations.- Labile and Invariable Valuations.- The State Goals Groups and the Private Enterprise: A Conceptual Framework.- A Structural Model of Organizational Decision-Making.- A Model of Oligarchization.- The System-Dynamics Approach for Urban Models in the Western European Context.- Information-Intensive Social Systems: Some Research Developments and Policy Implications.- Social Structure, Personality and Affect: A Systems Approach.- Cybernetic Model of Man.- Temporalization of Complexity.- Morphogenesis and Management: Some Implications.- The Public Use of Computers-The Way Ahead.- Social Systems, "Social Order" and "Entropy Reserves" in Society.- The Structural Criteria of Social System Maturity.- Cybernetic Theorems of Feedback in Social Processes.- From Ecology to an Extension of Systems-Analysis.- Alteration of Information in Channels: A Cross-Level Analysis.- Steps-A Planning and Designing Support System for Urban Transit Systems.- Psycho-Cultural Cybernetics: The Psycho-Dynamic Cybernetics of Acculturation.- System and Policy.- A Model of Voice Allocation During Discussion.- Foundations of a Formal Theory of Social Change.- Elements of Discontinuity Within Long-Term Architectural Projects.- Automatic System of Classification of the Data from Social Subsystems and Its Compatible Use.- Human Problem-Solving: A Systems Cybernetic View from the Top.- The Social Order and Prophetic Practice.- The Entropy Law and the Subject-Object Problematic.- Universally Shared Attributes of Human Behavior.- Bounding the Relevance of System Dynamics: A Contextual Analysis.- The Conditions for Social and Political Equilibria.- The Dialectical Method and Its Compatibility with Modern Systems Theory.- An Information-Theoretic Approach to the Organization of Police Forces.- Dialectics and Catastrophe.- Section 7-Systems and Models Including Environmental Problems.- Introductory Paper to Section-Analytical Research has Proved the Systems Character of all Nature.- Cybernetics as a Systems Philosophy.- Feedback Control of Linear Diffusion Processes.- Technical Chemical Systems as Conservation Systems.- to a General Theory of Spontaneous Self-Regulating Entities.- The Cybernetics of Environmental Decision-Making.- Self-Altering Systems.- A Cybernetic Approach to Population Dynamics Modeling.- A System of Problems and How to Deal With It.- A Socio-Econometric Model of Health Care Systems in U.S.A..- Vers Une Theorie Vraiment Scientifique des Systemes.- Technology is a Reflection of Natural Systems.- Systems Science: Chaos or Harmony.- Goal Programming: The Methodology and Its Application to the Pennsylvania Coal Model.- A Categorical Approach to the Equilibrium and Stability Problems in General System Theory.- Reliability of an Organisation.- Some Theoretical Problems of the Layout and Connection Tasks in the Design of Technical Systems.- A System Approach to a Search of Laws of Empirical Theories.- Balance Equations of Technical Chemical Systems.- How General can the Systems Theory be for the Reduction in Social and Natural Sciences.- A Systems Model of Human Behaviour.- A Cybernetic Approach to Systems Modelling.- Decentralized Man-Man Computer-Aided Communication System for Train Regulation.- Studies on Conservation Systems.- Ecological Rationality Beyond Cybernetics.- Numerical-Analytical Simulation of Markov Systems.- Markovian Formulation of Computer Network Performance.- A Computer Simulation System for Modeling Spatial Dynamics in Community Ecology.- Some Simple Multi-Level Models.- Modelling and Control of a Population of Greenhouse Aleurodes.- Notes on a Mathematical Model in Plasma Physics.- Studies of an Operational Unit System Family.- A Mathematical Systems-Theory of Database Systems.- Cycles and Systems with Living Parts.- A New Approach to the Estimation of Continuous Spectra.- Integration of their Environment.- On Distributed Computing for Large Systems Identification.- Selecting Techniques for Environmental Evaluation: A Systems Approach.- Section 8-Fuzzy Systems.- Application of Fuzzy Logic to the Design of a Behavioural Model in an Industrial Environment.- Universes of Fuzzy Sets, Closed Under Fuzzification.- Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Decision-Making in a Fuzzy Environment.- Fuzzy Termination Time in Decision-Making in a Fuzzy Environment.- Towards an Analysis of Linguistic Modelling.- Some Properties of Fuzzy Sets under Various Operations.- On Fuzzy Systems.- Fuzzy Reasoning and Dialogues.- Decision-Making with a Fuzzy Preference Relation in a Fuzzy Set of Alternatives.- Ordering, Preferences and Fuzzy Optimization.- Fuzzy Integral Games.- On Fuzzy Information Retrieval.- Fuzzy Systems and Learning Models.- An Analysis of Fuzzy Models and a Discussion of Their Limitations.- Verbal Formulation of Fuzzy Dynamic Systems.- On Some Equivalence Between Control Theory and Decision-Making Theory.- On the Need for Membership Grades in Fuzzy Sets.- Membership Functions and Their Assessment.- Open Forum-"Science and Society".- Science in Relation to Society.- Science and Technology: Routes to Global Interdependence.- How to Get Society to Appreciate the Economic, Value of Science and Mathematics.- to Discussion.- Special Pre-Congress Meeting-"Benefits of Conceptual Unification".- Why Conceptual Unification?.