Special double issue
Contemporary cybernetic and systemic researches
This Special Double Issue is designed to publicise the work of researchers in many of the specific areas of the study of systems and cybernetics. All,however, have a common bond in that they illustrate an interdisciplinary approach and communicate important research studies.
In response to the feedback of our readers after the publication of some of our more recent special issues the studies presented cover a wide-ranging spectrum of current research endeavours in the fields of systems and cybernetics. In addition we have responded to readers comments and some of our authors were allowed to develop their research themes to a much greater depth than the space allocated for previous special issues permitted.
The requests that our normal sections of the journal should also be included in these special compilations have also be addressed, and, indeed, welcomed by the Editorial Team.
To meet the new criteria this issue is divided into three parts. The first is concerned with research studies in intelligence and the brain. Both of the topics presented have been considered in depth by two well-known and respected researchers, Mark Hubey and Uri Fidelman. In the second part we include a variety of research studies that use interdisciplinary methodologies and many of these contributions have been selected from the large number of papers submitted. We are sorry that space does not allow the inclusion of all of these excellent studies but all accepted, peer-reviewed contributions will be published in later issues of this journal.
The third part contains the familiar journal sections that enable our readership to keep in touch with the activities of the flourishing cybernetics and systems communities. Also included in this section is the first of our 30th Anniversary Cyber-Profiles which will initially introduce the members of the journal's editorial team who compile and present the ten issues (some 1500 pp)of this journal each year.
Brian H. RudallEditor-in-Chief
