Current Topics in Cybernetics and Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Symposium on “Social Systems”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Theoretical Analysis of Higher States of Consciousness and Meditation

      • B. D. Josephson

      Pages 3-4

   3. Modelling and Simulation of Macro-Social Systems for Cybernetic Purposes

      • O. Rademaker

      Pages 4-5

   4. The Potential in Simulation of Macro-Social Processes or How to be a Useful Builder of Simulation Models

      • J. Randers

      Pages 6-7

   5. Simulation-Reality: A Feedback Loop

      • A. Rapoport

      Pages 7-8

   6. Simulation of Large-Scale Systems by Aggregation

      • H. A. Simon

      Pages 8-9

3. Symposium on “Computer Privacy”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. To be Effective, Privacy Needs Security!

      • D. Firnberg

      Pages 13-15

   3. Computer Privacy—Regulatory Aspects

      • F. Hondius

      Pages 15-17

   4. Computers and the Law of Privacy: The American Experience

      • J. C. Lautsch

      Pages 17-18

   5. Privacy in the Future Information Society

      • Y. Masuda

      Pages 18-20

4. Symposium on “Robots”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Robotics and Society

      • J. F. Engelberger

      Pages 23-27

   3. The Future of Robotics

      • I. Kato

      Pages 28-29

   4. Telechirics

      • M. W. Thring

      Pages 29-30

   5. Industrial Robot Today—Structure and Application

      • H. J. Warnecke, R. D. Schraft, E. Abele

      Pages 30-31

5. Artificial Intelligence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. A Note on the Construction of Hadamard Matrices

      • S. S. Agaian, A. G. Sarukhanian

      Pages 35-35

   3. Automatic Solution of Syllogisms and Sorites

      • M. Alfonseca

      Pages 36-37

This book is a record of the contents of the papers accepted by the Congress Committee for presentation at the Fourth International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 21-25 August 1978). Two hundred and forty-five papers from authors from thirty-three countries of all the five continents are included. The papers are presented in an abridged form in order to highlight the main themes and produce a book that is both readable and relatively inexpensive. It was felt that after the publication of the weighty and rather costly form of the Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems held in Bucharest, Romania in 1975 (Modern Trends in Cybernetics and Systems, eds. Rose and Bilciu, W. O. G. S. c. and Springer-Verlag, 1977; 3 volumes about 3500 pages; $150), an abridged but comprehen­ sive version would be more acceptable to readers. It is worth noting that the full names and addresses of authors are given for each paper, and requests to authors for more information and even full-scale papers would produce a positive response. As a matter of interest, each paper carries, in addition, brief summaries. The papers are arranged in each section or symposium in the alphabetical order of authors' names; this is not necessarily the order of presentation at the Congress.

• Direct Digital Control
• System Dynamics
• artificial intelligence
• cognition
• communication
• cybernetics
• diffusion
• elasticity
• entropy
• molecule
• optimal control
• perception
• stability
• system
• systems theory

• W.O.G.S.C., Blackburn, UK

  J. Rose

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