Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 30

Volume 30, Number 1, 1999

• Miguel Lloret-Climent:
  Cellular Meiosis: a System-linkage Theoretic Approach. 1-8
  
• Jen-Yang Chen:
  Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller Design: Indirect Adaptive Approach. 9-27
  
• M. De La Sen:
  On the Zero Decoupling Structures of Cascade-parallel Interconnected Systems. 29-35
  
• Chen Bing:
  Robust Output Tracking Control for Nonlinear Interconnected Systems with Similar Structure. 37-55
  
• Shyi-Ming Chen:
  Evaluating the Rate of Aggregative Risk in Software Development Using Fuzzy Set Theory. 57-75
  

Volume 30, Number 2, 1999

• Editorial Special Issue, Papers from the 1997 Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (part I). 77-78
  
• Stuart A. Umpleby, Eric B. Dent:
  The Origins and Purposes of several Traditions in Systems Theory and Cybernetics. 79-103
  
• Ernst Von Glasersfeld:
  The Cybernetic Insights of Jean Piaget. 105-112
  
• Louis H. Kauffman:
  What Is a Number? 113-130
  
• Christopher Landauer, Kirstie L. Bellman:
  Computational Embodiment: Constructing Autonomous Software Systems. 131-168
  
• Mario Veitl, Paolo Petta, Robert Spour, Klaus Obermaier:
  Autonomous Agents in User Interfaces. 169-177
  

Volume 30, Number 3, 1999

• Guy Jumarie:
  Information and Self-organization Revisited via Complex-valued Fractional Brownian Motion of Order N. 179-203
  
• David B. Fogel:
  A Note on the Maximum Missed-opportunity Cost Incurred by Minimizing Expected Losses in Genetic Algorithms. 205-211
  
• Ching-Tzong Su, Chien-Tung Lin:
  Voltage/reactive Power Control via Fuzzy Linear Programming Approach. 213-226
  
• Manuel Lama, Maria Taboada, Senén Barro, Roque Marín, F. Palacios:
  Design of a Therapeutic Specialist for Acute Myocardial Infarct. 227-248
  
• Miguel Lloret-Climent:
  Systems Approach to the Concept of Mutation. 249-259
  

Volume 30, Number 4, 1999

• Hector Sabelli, Louis H. Kauffman:
  The Process Equation: Formulating and Testing the Process Theory of Systems. 261-294
  
• Stuart A. Umpleby, Mario Veitl:
  Editorial: Special Issue: Papers from the 1997 Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics (part Ii). 295-296
  
• Doreen E. Steg:
  On the Theory and Psychology of Knowing and Learning and its Application to Qualitative Evaluation. 297-314
  
• Stuart A. Umpleby:
  "cyberethics": a Panel Discussion. 315-330
  
• Philip Lewin:
  The Stories of Ethics: Ethical Comportment and the Stories We Tell. 331-340
  

Volume 30, Number 5, 1999

• Pawel Cichosz:
  An Analysis of Experience Replay in Temporal Difference Learning. 341-363
  
• John A. A. Sillince, Masoud Saeedi:
  A Formal Model of Organizational Argumentation: Applications of Informal Logic to a Committee Meeting. 365-409
  
• Fabrizio Sebastiani:
  Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Information Retrieval Theory. 411-428
  
• Vladik Kreinovich:
  Coincidences Are not Accidental: a Theorem. 429-440
  
• Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Nahum Cohen, Erez Shasha:
  An Improver of Chess Problems. 441-465
  

Volume 30, Number 6, 1999

• Lynn Andrea Stein:
  Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think. 473-507
  
• Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos:
  A Generic Spatial Temporal Computation Model for Systemic Multimedia Presentations. 509-531
  
• Leonard Chong, Siu Cheung Hui, Chai Kiat Yeo:
  Towards a Unified Messaging Environment over the Internet. 533-549
  
• Masatoshi Sakawa, Kosuke Kato, Hideki Mohara:
  Efficiency of Decomposition Method for Structured Multiobjective Linear Programming Problems with Fuzzy Numbers. 551-570
  
• A. P. Levich, A. V. Solov'Yov:
  Category-functor Modelling of Natural Systems. 571-585
  

Volume 30, Number 7, 1999

• Yolanda Villacampa-Esteve, M. A. Castro-Lopez, Josep Lluis Usó-Domènech, Patricia Sastre-Vázquez:
  A Text Theory of Ecological System. 587-607
  
• Mehmet R. Tolun, Hayri Sever, Mahmut Uludag, Saleh M. Abu-Soud:
  Ila-2: an Inductive Learning Algorithm for Knowledge Discovery. 609-628
  
• Andreas C. Nearchou:
  A Genetic Navigation Algorithm for Autonomous Mobile Robots. 629-661
  
• Xinghuo Yu, Zhihong Man:
  Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control Systems with Adaptive Estimation. 663-680
  
• Y. Endow:
  Dyadic Time, Dyadic Systems, and Evolution Operators. 681-696
  

Volume 30, Number 8, 1999

• Patricia Sastre-Vázquez, Josep Lluis Usó-Domènech, Jorge Mateu, Patricia Salvador, Yolanda Villacampa-Esteve:
  Statistical Linguistic Laws in Ecological Models. 697-724
  
• Vania Peneva, Ivan Popchev:
  Fuzzy Logic Operators in Decision-making. 725-745
  
• Hsiao-Fan Wang, Long-Shuh Lin:
  Factor Selections for a System Development Process. 747-760
  
• Naoki Shiba, Jun-ichi Iijima, Kaoru Ohta:
  Model Integration for Managerial Decision Support Using a Model Description Language with a Formal Semantics. 761-781
  
• Chen Bing, Zhang Siying, Wei Yongde:
  Robust Decentralized Hinfinity Control for Nonlinear Interconnected Systems with Uncertainty. 783-798
  
• Robert Trappl:
  The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence: a Short Presentation. 799-827