... intelligence Computer systems Cybernetics This book attempts to follow the development of artificial intelligence (AI) from its initial conception to that of the present time. The problem with a book of this nature is twofold: to tell as best it can what is meant by AI; and second, to contrast the early...

...D.M. Hutton Diane   Cook and Sajal   Das (Eds) . Smart Environments: Technology, Protocols and Applications . Wiley‐Interscience (visit www.wiley.com), 2005 . 432 pp. , ISBN: 0‐471‐54448‐5   US $89.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Computer...

...L.P. Lee Considers that virtual reality, the creation of highly interactive computer‐based multimedia environments in which the user becomes a participant with the computer, will have major social and psychological implications. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Computer systems Cybernetics...

...Zhengxin Chen Examines the active aspect of retrieval in several kinds of storage structures in natural and computational systems. In particular, investigates self‐adjusting data structures and self‐organization of memory structures. Also examines related issues, including the relationship between...

...Edward T. Lee Average turnaround time is an important consideration in selecting or evaluating computing systems. The greatest lower bound and the least upper bound of average turnaround time are investigated. New results are presented with illustrative examples. Kybernetes 19,1 46 On Average...

... of the different parallel controller values, the weightings being either fixed values or chosen by an adaptive decision‐making mechanism. The effect of different controller combinations is a field now open to study. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Computer Systems Cybernetics Kybernetes 18,5 20 Received: 21...

... chip design and the parallel language OCCAM are introduced. The authors believe that together they form a modular hardware/software component of the type which is essential in the construction of highly parallel computer systems. (Part II of this article will consider the soft simulation of systolic...

... of cybernetic systems which is visualised as the theory of structures, functions and evolution of cybernetic or control systems. This suggests a heuristic idea of cybernetic evolution as the higher stage of negentropic universal evolution of open systems. © MCB UP Limited 1988 Computer Systems...

...; in this context, it is important that computer memory does not become full and halt the execution of the system. CASSANDRA‐II contains special‐purpose, knowledge‐based mechanisms for the removal of out‐dated blackboard information. Computer Systems Control Systems Kybernetes 1987, Vol. 16, pp. 223-228 ©...