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Cybernetics and systems '86 :

9027722137

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9401085609

9789027722133

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Cybernetics and systems '86 :

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proceedings of the Eighth European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, held at the University of Vienna, Austria, 1-4 April 1986 ; edited by Robert Trappl.

Dordrecht ; Boston

D. Reidel Pub. Co. ; Hingham, MA, U.S.A. : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers

©1986.

xviii, 926 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

List of Contents.- Is "Cybernetics and Systems Research" a System? A Scientometric Analysis.- General Systems Methodology.- Physical Cybernetics; its Elementary Laws.- Finite Decomposable Sequential Systems in the Category of Semigroups.- M-D Matrix and M-D Transform Methods.- Subjective Perception of Time and Systems.- Biological Information as a System Description.- Natural Systems According to Modern Systems Science: Three Dualities.- A Complexity Measure for Binary Relational Systems.- Stabilizing Partially Observable Uncertain Linear Systems.- Active Control of a System by the New General System Logical Theory.- Indeterminism in System Science.- Chain Models for Growth Processes/Code Theory.- General Entity Structures for System Analysis.- Linear Harmonic Translation Invariant Systems on Finite Non-Abelian Groups.- Models of Dynamical Modelling under Uncertainty.- A Cellular-Space Model for Studying Wave-Particle Dualism.- A General Systems Analysis of Goal-Directed Heuristic Computation.- Total Entropy. A Unified Approach to Discrete Entropy and Continuous Entropy.- Structural Entropy. A New Approach for Systems Structure's Analysis.- Designing and Systems.- Organizational Health in the Systems Age: A Renaissance Systems Perspective.- Design and Planning.- General Theory of Design and its Application to Design/Planning/in Medicine.- The Development of Design Methodology in Architecture, Urban Planning and Industrial Design.- Methodical Design in Engineering - Basis and Applicability.- The Cybernetic Model of the Organisation: An Assessment.- Functional Approach Evolution in Organizational Designing.- System-Oriented Designing Procedures.- The Structure of the Design Process.- Procedural Building Blocks: The Interface between Argumentative Design Discourse and Formal Evaluation Procedures for Design.- A Framework for the Design of Problem-Solving Methodologies.- Methodological Principles of Large Scale Complex Engineering Systems Design.- Attribute-Oriented Projects: Configuration Management Framework and Two Examples.- The Flow Chart Expansion Method of the Design Problem.- Queueing Systems Design, Control and Simulation: The Interrelationships.- An Interactive Model for Computer Aided Design Education and Research on Knowledge Base of Designers.- Humanity, Architecture, and Conceptualisation.- The Way You Look Determines What You See or Self-Organization in Management and Society.- Cathedrals in the Mind: The Architecture of Metaphor in Understanding Learning.- New Socio-Cybernetic Foundations for Value Systems.- The Paradigm-Shift from Architectured Inhumanity to Humanized Architectures in Corporate Reality.- Cybernetics in Biology and Medicine.- On Some Fresh Air in Neural Modeling.- On the Probability Densities of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process with a Reflecting Boundary.- Morphogenesis and Properties of Neuronal Model Networks.- Pattern Formation in Neural Systems: I.Autorhythmicity, Entrainment, Quasiperiodicity and Chaos in Neurochemical Systems.- Pattern Formation in Neural Systems: II.Noise-Induced Selective Mechanism for the Ontogenetic Formation of Ocular Dominance Columns.- Some Aspects of Modeling Neuronal Interactions in the Basal Ganglia.- A New Algorithmic Approach to First-Passage-Time Problems.- Selfdual and Other Structures of Optimal Cycles in Neural Network Behaviour.- Simulation of a Neural Network for Adaptive Colour Perception.- On the Statistical Prediction of NIPTS Due to Industrial Stationary Noise Exposure.- Positive Protosystolic Peak of Coronary Arterial Blood Flow. A New Index of Epicardial Compliance?.- Plasticity of the Cell Membrane Receptors (A Model).- Predator-Prey and `Evolon' - Behaviour Modelled by Random-Walk Processes.- Representation of Complex Ontogenetic Trajectories.- Couplings between Molecular and Cellular Levels: Simulation of Drug Action.- Pseudorandom Interval Maps for Simulation of Normal and Exotic Neuronal Activities.- The Goore Game and Daisyworld - Substrates for Self-Organization.- Nonparametric Methods for Measurement of Height Growth.- Cybernetics of Socio-Economic Systems.- Optimal Stabilizing and Destabilizing "Stabilization" Policies.- Macrosystem of the Societal Self-Organization.- Peace as a Cybernetic Control Problem.- Problems in the Design of Large Data-Bases.- The Development of an Experimental Distributed Database.

Some Practical Experience.- Addressing Social Conflicts through Naturalized Programming.- Institutional Review Boards as Complex Systems.- A Directable Ashby System.- Using Mathematics for Introducing Systems Thinking to Children.- The Art of Negotiations: A Systems Perspective.- Information Value Analysis.- Model for Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Construction of Industrial Plants by a Group of Producers.- Experience in Application of the Dialectical Systems Theory through "USOMID" for Mastering of Bureaucratic Relations in an Enterprise.- The Graduate Management Admissions Test - Predictor or Pretender?.- Computer-Aided Simulation of Control Processes in Enterprises.- Computer-Aided Systems Analysis and Modelling of Innovation Strategies in the Field of Flexible Automation.- Present Status and Expected Developments in Computer Integrated Manufacture in the Socialist Countries.- Fuzzy Sets - Meeting of the EURO Working Group.- Semi-Lattice Isomorphism of the Extensions of Possibility Measure and the Solutions of Fuzzy Relation Equation.- Maximal Number of Lower Solutions in Fuzzy Relation Equation.- A Dominance of Alternatives for Decision Making in Probabilistic Fuzzy Environment.- The Information Energy Gain as a Criterion of Comparison between Fuzzy Information Systems.- An Interactive Method for Multiobjective Nonlinear Programming Problems with Fuzzy Parameters.- Systems Engineering for Design Automation.- Mathematical Systems Theory and Design Automation.- System Paradigms and Design Practice.- Toolbox or Cookbook? The Future Development of Structured Systems Methodologies.- Tool Support for Model Description with SDL and Simulation.- A Systems Engineering Oriented Framework for Computer Based Design Automation Systems.- Computer Aided System Design.- Some Experiences with AI Methods in CAD.- LOBSTER-M: A Mixed Mode Simulator for CAD.- Computer in the Architect's Workshop - New International Style in Architecture.- A Sequential Algorithm for the Synthesis of Tree Automata.- Multirate Adaptive Control for Lateral Dynamics of Aircrafts.- Symbolic Algorithm for Observing the States of a Class of Nonlinear Systems.- Coordination of Concurrent Processes: Automatic Program Synthesis.- Some Optimization Methods for Experimental Investigation Dialogue Systems.- Methodological Improvements and New Applications of Expert Systems.- Has the Time Come for a Medical Expert System to Go Down in the Bullring: The Tropicaid Experiment.- Multilevel Inference Control in Expert System Codex.- Analyzing, Representing and Interpreting Expert Strategic Knowledge.- Representing Legal Texts by Logic Programs.- Mixing PROLOG and LISP.- Implementing Inference Strategies in Prolog Based Expert Systems.- Doxastic Logic and Doxastic-Epistemic Meta-Reasoning in Expert Systems.- Generalization and Particularization of Production Rules in Expert Systems.- Knowledge Based Natural Language Processing.- Concept-Class-Prototype: unum an trinum?.- The Role of Metaknowledge in Text Comprehension.- Micro-World Recognition by "Restless Debugging".- Semantic Interpretation in Natural Language Interface Applications.- The Overanswering Mechanism in the Fido System.- Achieving Text Coherence in a Generator for German Texts.- Interactive Semi-Automatic Creation of a Morphological Lexicon.- Error Messages in Spoken Natural Language.- Artificial Intelligence / Symbolic Computation.- A Formal Framework for Modelling Agents.- Mental Models and Inferences in Everyday Reasoning.- Logical Stratification of Organic Intelligence.- CM-System: New Methodology for Automated Theorem Proving and Program Synthesis Systems.- Stochastic Logical Expressions.- A Formalism for Specifying Software Generation.- Modularisation in EDDA-S, a Data Flow Design Language Supporting Incremental Software Development.- A Fast Serial and Parallel Thinning Algorithm.- Hierarchical Dynamic Data Structure for Representing Optimal Adaptive Controllers by Assemblies.- Author Index.

Cybernetics -- Congresses.

System theory -- Congresses.

Systems engineering -- Congresses.

organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, held at the University of Vienna, Austria, 1-4 April 1986 ; edited by Robert Trappl.

Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik.

Robert Trappl

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