2 Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119991, Russia, Moscow, Leninskie gory, (495) 939-11-29, [email protected] 3 Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow Lomonosov State University, 119991, Russia, Moscow, Leninskie gory, (495) 939-11-29, [email protected] 4 The institute of Informatics problems of the Russian Academy of sc...

On a cold day between Christmas and New Year 1961, in search of a place to study, I met Heinz in his office at the Biological Computer Laboratory. I knew of him through a network of designers who, like me, were interested in issues that conventional curricula did not address. Heinz greeted me, a total stranger, with the enthusiasm usually reserved for an old friend. To my surprise, he knew of t...

Interorganizational Standards (IOS) are a key-lever to digitizing business relationships within value creating networks. They provide assistance in bridging organizational borders by providing standard processes and semantics. Various IOS have been developed for supporting complex, partly domain dependent communication scenarios. Only little academic work analyzes the process of selecting a spe...

Descriptions of society have changed during the preceding decades. Expressions such as “knowledge society” or “information society” are nowadays generally used. In science, and social science in particular, the concept of information has entered as fundamental concept. It is no longer relegated to special fields of inquiry, such as public opinion research, mass communication or educational tech...

In 1969, Gordon Pask published a paper that explicitly proposed a vital connection between cybernetics and architecture. “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics” (Pask, 1969) was one outcome of an extraordinary series of debates and presentations centred around the theme of limits to science presented at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. The proceedings we...

vol. 37 (2008) No. 2 On the regularization error of state onstrained Neumann ontrol problems∗ by Klaus Krumbiegel and Arnd Rös h Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Mathemati s Forsthausweg 2, D-47057 Duisburg, Germany e-mail: klaus.krumbiegel uni-due.de; arnd.roes h uni-due.de Abstra t: A linear ellipti optimal ontrol problem with pointwise state onstraints in the interior of the domain ...

Purpose – Taoist thought is not easily penetrable for Westerners, though it has growing importance with the globalisation of Chinese commerce. The purpose of this paper is to explore some aspects of Chinese and Taoist thought, and how they can be expressed in cybernetic terms, using a knowledge cybernetics (KC) schema. Design/methodology/approach – KC operates through metaphor the role of which...