... of the present work being implemented. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Cybernetics Research Systems The Twelfth Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, and the Fourth Workshop of the International Institute of General Systems Studies were held as a joint event in Pittsburgh...

...Pat Sweeting This article identifies a significant incidence of unsatisfactory outcomes in complex automation projects. It looks at the particular problems that arise when specifying and designing automated systems for the healthcare industry and how they contribute to complexity. A number of case...

...Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos; Christopher E. Smith Many research efforts have turned to sensing, and in particular computer vision, to create more flexible robotic systems. Computer vision is often required to provide data for the grasping of a target. Using a vision system for grasping of static...