Cybernetics and Systems, Volume 36

Volume 36, Number 1, January-February 2005

• Weidong Zhou, Richard Coggins:
  A Biologically Inspired Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning System. 1-44
  
• A Requisitely Holistic View Of Human Resources Management In Innovative Enterprises. 45-63
  
• Manuel de la Sen:
  Robustly Stable Model-Following Control Of Uncertain Continuous Time Plants With The Use Of A Correcting Controller. 65-84
  
• Shyi-Ming Chen, Shih-Wei Lee:
  Estimating Null Values In Relational Database Systems Based On Genetic Algorithms. 85-106
  

Volume 36, Number 2, March 2005

• Douglas S. Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden, James B. Marshall:
  Bringing Up Robot: Fundamental Mechanisms For Creating A Self-Motivated, Self-Organizing Architecture. 125-150
  
• Shiang-Tai Liu:
  Fuzzy Measures For Fuzzy Signal-To-Noise Ratios. 151-163
  
• Ming-Chang Shaio, Shun-Wen Tan, Kao-Shing Hwang, Cheng-Shong Wu:
  A Reinforcement Learning Approach To Congestion Control Of High-Speed Multimedia Networks. 181-202
  
• Ramón Gutiérrez Jáimez, Ramón Gutiérrez-Sánchez, Ahmed Nafidi, Patricia Román, F. Torres:
  Inference In Gompertz-Type Nonhomogeneous Stochastic Systems By Means Of Discrete Sampling. 203-216
  

Volume 36, Number 3, April-May 2005

• Dimitri Lefebvre, Philippe Thomas:
  Parameters Estimation For Timed And Continuous Petri Nets: Application To The Identification And Monitoring Of Hybrid Systems. 217-250
  
• George A. Rovithakis, Athanasios G. Malamos, Theodora A. Varvarigou, Manolis A. Christodoulou:
  Quality-Of-Service Adaptive Control Of Multimedia Services In Short-Term Resource Reservation Networks. 251-281
  
• Vladimir S. Lerner:
  The Information Model Of Collective Dynamics. 283-307
  
• Shi-Jay Chen, Shyi-Ming Chen:
  Aggregating Fuzzy Opinions In The Heterogeneous Group Decision-Making Environment. 309-338
  

Volume 36, Number 4, June 2005

• Elpida Tzafestas:
  Regulation problems in explorer agents. 339-377
  
• Giovanna Morgavi, Mauro Morando, Grazia Biorci, Daniele D. Caviglia:
  Growing up: emerging complexity in living being. 379-395
  
• Shyi-Ming Chen, Chi-Hao Chang:
  A new method to construct membership functions and generate weighted fuzzy rules from training instances. 397-414
  
• Elsayed Radwan, Eiichiro Tazaki:
  New learning method for cellular neural networks template based on combination between rough sets and genetic programming. 415-444
  

Volume 36, Number 5, July-August 2005

• Umberto Giani, Angela Romano, Dario Bruzzese:
  an epidemiological model of knowledge diffusion in virtual learning networks: an application to learning statistics in medicine. 445-456
  
• Yasushi Endow:
  Computing anticipatory property in stochastic differential systems. 457-470
  
• Ibone Lizarraga, Victor Etxebarria, Arantza Sanz:
  Sliding-mode adaptive control for flexible-link manipulators using a composite design. 471-490
  
• Matjaz Mulej, Borut Likar, Vojko Potocan:
  Increasing the capacity of companies to absorb inventions from research organizations and encouraging people to innovate. 491-512
  
• Zhao Lu, Feng Lin, Hao Ying:
  Multiple sliding surface control for systems in nonlinear block controllable form. 513-526
  
• Yi-Chung Hu:
  A new fuzzy-data mining method for pattern classification by principal component analysis. 527-547
  

Volume 36, Number 6, September 2005

• Antanas Verikas, Marija Bacauskiene:
  Image analysis and fuzzy integration applied to print quality assessment. 549-564
  
• Ichiro Nishizaki, Masatoshi Sakawa:
  Computational methods through genetic algorithms for obtaining stackelberg solutions to two-level integer programming problems. 565-579
  
• Deng Yong, Liu Qi:
  A topsis-based centroid-index ranking method of fuzzy numbers and its application in decision-making. 581-595
  
• Chia-Chong Chen, Ching-Chang Wong:
  Significant fuzzy rules extraction by an SVD-QR-based approach. 597-622
  
• Hsuan-Ming Feng:
  Self-generation fuzzy modeling systems through hierarchical recursive-based particle swarm optimization. 623-639
  

Volume 36, Number 7, October-November 2005

• Alexander Weinmann:
  A dialog-oriented and gradient-based stability margin in uncertain systems. 641-666
  
• P. N. Smith:
  A comparison of some fuzzy relation-based linguistic preference models for multiple-factor project assessment. 667-686
  
• Chao-Lung Chiang, Ching-Tzong Su:
  Adaptive-improved genetic algorithm for the economic dispatch of units with multiple fuel options. 687-704
  
• Chung-Ming Own, Pao-Ta Yu:
  Forecasting fuzzy time series on a heuristic high-order model. 705-717
  

Volume 36, Number 8, December 2005

• Michael D. Fischer, Dwight W. Read, Stephen M. Lyon:
  Introduction. 719-734
  
• Michael D. Fischer:
  Culture and indigenous knowledge systems: emergent order and the internal regulation of shared symbolic systems. 735-752
  
• Robert G. Reynolds, Bin Peng:
  Cultural algorithms: computational modeling of how cultures learn to solve problems: an engineering example. 753-771
  
• Dwight W. Read:
  Some observations on resilience and robustness in human systems. 773-802
  
• F. K. L. Chit Hlaing:
  on the "globality hypothesis" about social/cultural structure: an algebraic solution. 803-816
  
• David Kronenfeld, Kimberly Hedrick:
  Culture, cultural models, and the division of labor. 817-845
  
• Paul Ballonoff:
  Correspondence among mathematical treatments of culture theory. 847-859
  
• Irina V. Ezhkova:
  Self-organizing representations. 861-875
  
• Jürgen Klüver, Christina Stoica:
  On the nature of culture and communication: a complex systems perspective. 877-902
  
• Murray Leaf:
  The message is the medium: language, culture, and informatics. 903-917
  
• Stephen M. Lyon:
  Culture and information: an anthropological examination of communication in cultural domains in Pakistan. 919-932