Computational Cybernetics Research Articles

Computational Cybernetics of Glia-Neuron Cells Symbiosis versus Hopfield Recurrent Network: Do We Understand it? *

Computational Cybernetics of Glia-Neuron Cells Symbiosis versus Hopfield Recurrent Network: Do We Understand it? *

News on the IEEE North Macedonia Section CAS/CIS/CS Chapter Activities (2021)

The IEEE North Macedonia Section joint chapter CAS/CIS/CS has kicked-off the activities planned for 2021, despite the difficulties related to the global covid-19 pandemic. The first technical event planned for 2021 took place on 22 April 2021, and it was a lecture by an old friend and distinguished member of our Section, Prof. Georgi Dimirovski, on the topic of “Computational Cybernetics of Fascinating Ideas on Control of Complex Systems Beyond the Knowledge of Decentralized Feedback.”

Metacognition in Sebastian`s Door: mathematics, education and art

The aim is to show metacognition in how mathematics and culture are related in the sculptural work of Master Sebastián; with a deep playful character from which it emerges. Constituting a kind of artistic syncretism of apparently divergent beliefs between the plastic world, pure mathematics, abstract geometry and computational cybernetics. Methodology, study with a qualitative approach, the variables to consider were: Bach's baroque music with the canon and fugue, Gödel's theorem with the incompleteness of the axiomatic system; Eschery lithographs the reiteration of forms; Borje's literary-mathematical paradoxes; recursive programming routines in artificial intelligence systems (expert systems, mathematics) and Sebastián's sculpture. In conclusion, the convergence between Bach's baroque music can be identified, through the generation of the canon and the fugue; Gödel's theorem on the incompleteness of the axiomatic system, the reiteration of forms that invent themselves in Escher's lithographs, the literary-mathematical paradoxes in the stories of Jorge Luis Borges, and the use of recursive routines in the programming of expert systems or artificial intelligence. This game of plastic metamorphosis with which Sebastián surprised us a few years ago, turns out to predate the concept of the transformers, long before Hollywood made them a commercial success. As in the most diverse efforts of syncretism, Sebastián has traveled close to profanation as the staunch conservatives of the elite of scientists and artists can describe it.

On Gaian Systems: An Interview with Bruce Clarke

On Gaian Systems:An Interview with Bruce Clarke Asijit Datta (bio) Asijit Datta interviewed literature and science scholar Bruce Clarke during a webinar on August 27, 2021. Their conversation centered on Clarke's presentation and development of Lynn Margulis's neocybernetic approach to the Gaia concept in Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2020. Often seen as an outlier in science since its debut in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis, Gaia theory has run a long and varied course, gradually bringing the Earth and life sciences into closer integration around new understandings of planetary dynamics. This interview explores the development of Gaia's scientific variants and some key theoretical frames that have been brought to bear on Gaia discourse. Particular attention is paid to Margulis's adaptation of the concept of autopoiesis, which she viewed as providing a clarifying criterion for the autonomous self-production and symbiotic collaboration of living systems, in contrast to the first-order and computational cybernetics of control systems favored by Lovelock. Clarke's own work in this area extends Margulis's autopoietic approach to the Gaian system. Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University. He was Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress in 2019; Senior Fellow at the Center for Literature and the Natural Sciences, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2015; and Senior Fellow at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy, Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2010–11. His latest books are Writing Gaia: The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, coedited with Sébastien Dutreuil (2022), and Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene (2020); other books include Neocybernetics and Narrative (2014), Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems (2008), and Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics (2001). He coedits the book series Meaning Systems, published by Fordham [End Page 431] University Press, and is the editor or coeditor of seven essay collections, most recently Posthuman Biopolitics: The Science Fiction of Joan Slonczewski (2020) and, with Manuela Rossini, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (2017). asijit datta: Professor Clarke, when you point to Lovelock's "circular logic" [Clarke 2020, 6] concerning Gaia, as that recursive logic is understood in second-order cybernetics, are you looking at Gaia as a system operated by a continuous loop whose essential components are indestructible? Do you think that Gaia has a fixed volume of unalterable properties, while other components keep metamorphosing? bruce clarke: Yes, a continuous loop would conform to my idea here. However, that such a continuous loop and its essential components are indestructible is not the Gaia conception as I understand it. Matter and energy enter the state of living form, and the components of living systems are always re-forming and breaking down again. Their elements are renewable, but their forms are not indestructible, and the system carries out the continuous creation and de-creation of the productions of the system. That would be one way to state Gaia's circular logic. Moreover, Gaia itself is not indestructible, but it makes sense to think that it has maintained itself in operation since it got going some two and a half billion years ago. A time will come when cosmological conditions are no longer sustainable for this planetary system, at which point the continuation of life will cease. As for a fixed volume, this is the issue of material closure [Barlow and Volk 1990]. The planet is thermodynamically open to the flux of solar energy, of course, even while it is essentially closed to the influx of matter from beyond the Earth, just because this amount is negligible in relation to the total mass of the Earth. So basically, the planet does have a fixed volume of geological matter to be brought into the recycling dynamics that sustain the Gaian system. Gaia itself is also evolving as part and parcel of the interlocking of geological and biological evolution. Gaia continuously...

IT as Russian “soft Power” in the Middle East

Information technologies (IT) have played a crucial role in the development of human civilization for more than half a century. The USSR was rightfully one of the most developed countries in the world in the field of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, which is confirmed by several original hardware and software solutions created by Russian scientists. At the same time, progress in the field of information technology has stimulated the development of industry, primarily Military-industrial complex. Russia, having inherited the Soviet scientific potential, must solve an equally important task-to diversify its sector and enter the “civil” market. In this regard, the region of the Middle East seems to be an excellent platform for testing marketing technologies by domestic manufacturers, especially in those countries that cannot purchase American products for political reasons.

Genesis of English Language with its Cybernetics Origin

This paper is looking into the genesis of the English language with its Cybernetics origins and hence looking into the possibilities of developing new techniques to be used in speech processing applications. As we all know, English is the third-most-spoken language in the world by a number of native speakers, which is used to create the present world, which is also a West Germanic language that was first spoken early medieval England, and is now a global lingua franca (Bridge language). The analysis to synthesis power of this language about any matter ranging from tangible to intangible, first order cybernetics to second order cybernetics is based on the basic structure of the English language as described in this paper, as a language with Twenty-Eight alphabets with Alpha in the beginning and Omega in the end, together constituting Symbol of Word connected with lemniscus, along with the singularity. This paper is trying bring out how the English words can be processed, generated, analyzed, synthesized, and how it can be used for prediction, using Logical Symbol of Cybernetics and Symbol of Word, in a modern data-driven society. Also when the activities in computers with artificial intelligence are designed for including Speech recognition and Learning, this paper gives an optimum solution in machine learning and AI by providing a new model in speech signal processing. Keywords: Biolinguistics, Evolutionary linguistics, Cybernetics, Cognition, Cognitive Science, Language, English, Linguistics, Clinical linguistics, Computational linguistics, Forensic linguistics, Speech Processing, Natural-Language Processing, Biosemiotics, Micro linguistics, Neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, Cognitive psychology, Data Science, Speech Analysis, Speech Synthesis, Speech Recognition, Spoken Language Processing, Computational Cybernetics Cite this Article Reji M. Issac. Genesis of English Language with its Cybernetics Origin. Current Trends in Signal Processing . 2020; 10(1): 19–28p.

Quantum simulation of structure switching in a molecular system

This article presents the results of ab initio quantum simulation of graphite-like structure formation from amorphous carbon. It is devoted to explaining a resistivity switching mechanism in experiments on phase-change memory. In this work, a two-scale molecular dynamics model is used, which consists of Car-Parrinello quantum molecular dynamics (CPMD) and modified Ehrenfest molecular dynamics. The results of simulation point out to the appearance of a layered graphite-like molecular structure at an increase in temperature. These changes in the atomic configuration can be considered as a second-order phase transition in nanostructured material, which leads to threshold resistivity switching. For calculations, the IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer installed at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of Moscow State University was used.

A multiscale molecular switch model

A first-principles mathematical simulation of molecular switching of the isomerization reaction in a naphthalocyanine molecule on the basis of a current-induced tunnel microscope is presented. The Gibbs free energy surface and the reaction pathway are analyzed in terms of metadynamics using the numerical quantum mechanical Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CPMD) code. The calculations were performed on an IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer at Moscow State University’s Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics. The height of the energy barrier that must be overcome to achieve the isomerization reaction is found along an introduced coordination variable. A multiscale model of Ehrenfest molecular dynamics states is proposed on the basis of an excited electron. The model uses the coordination direction of the reaction on the free energy surface obtained in calculations for a complete molecule.

Special Issue on IEEE-ICCC 2006

The study of systems and complexity has taken an intriguing route in the last hundred years, involved some of the most fascinating scientists, synthesised new fields of research and found novel applications requiring a fresh and revolutionary approach. Computational Cybernetics is a pragmatic response for the needs of engineering and social systems that integrates Cybernetics with Computational Intelligence. The IEEE International Conference on Computational Cybernetics (IEEE ICCC) has been successfully promoting the open-minded but scientifically sound integration of advanced mathematical and systems engineering methods in multidisciplinary domains since 2003. This special issue is a selection of the most characteristic and instructive papers from the previous IEEE ICCC conference, held in the summer of 2006 in Tallinn, Estonia. All of the papers in this issue represent vividly the broad scope and integrating nature of Computational Cybernetics. As Tar et al. notes in the first paper, a century-old conjecture of Hilbert solved fifty years ago can help us build new solutions in the 21st century in the field of nonlinear system control. In the same way each of the following papers represent a bridge between analogies from nature, computational methods and challenging multidisciplinary problems – helping us to convey our message to the professional audience of this journal. The special issue editors would like to thank the authors of the papers in this issue, the participants of the IEEE ICCC conferences for contributing to its stimulating, multidisciplinary environment and the professional support of the Journal editors and their staff.

Special Issue on Computational Cybernetics

This issue contains selected papers from the International IEEE Conference on Computational Cybernetics that took place in Vienna 2004 in Austria at the Vienna University of Technology. Computational Cybernetics is the synergetic integration of Cybernetics and Computational Intelligence techniques. Cybernetics was defined by Wiener as "the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine". The word "cybernetics" itself stems from the Greek "kybernetes" that means pilot or governor. While the roots of cybernetics go back to the time when James Watt equipped his steam engine with a Governor, that is a simple feedback mechanism for regulation of steam flow, the computational component was a child of the 20th century with the rise of information processing machines. The science of cybernetics and the science of computer science have in common, that both infiltrated many fields of application such as mathematics, telecommunication, regulated engines, living systems/medicine, social systems, and economical systems. Thus, on the one hand, the science of computational cybernetics encompasses a wide field, like the comparative study of automatic control systems, mechanical, biological (living), social and economical systems, communication theory, signal processing, information technology, control theory, the theory of adaptive systems, and the theory of complex systems (game theory, operational research). On the other hand, this research allows for finding common roots and common behavior among this broad field. This dichotomy between a broad overarching topic and the focus on computational cybernetics establishes the basis for interesting talks and discussions between scientists of different disciplines. We have selected 11 papers from the conference covering the fields of system design and modeling, neural networks, control theory, robotics and pattern recognition, which resemble the great variety of computational cybernetics. After the conference, each of these papers has undergone another peer review cycle in which the papers had been improved in order to fit this journal's topic and quality. It is our hope that the papers in this issue will inspire and help our readers in the development of advanced intelligent systems at the service of mankind.

Computational Cybernetics

This issue contains selected papers from the International IEEE Conference on Computational Cybernetics that took place in August 2003 in Hungary at the site of lake Balaton. Computational Cybernetics is the synergetic integration of Cybernetics and Computational Intelligence techniques. Cybernetics was defined by Wiener as "the science of control and communication, in the animal and the machine". The word "cybernetics" itself stems from the Greek "kybernetes" that means pilot or governor. Thus, the science of computational Cybernetics is especially concerned with the comparative study of automatic control systems. Furthermore, Computational Cybernetics covers not only mechanical, but biological (living), social and economical systems and for this uses computational intelligence based results of communication theory, signal processing, information technology, control theory, the theory of adaptive systems, the theory of complex systems (game theory, operational research), and computer science. We have selected 14 papers from the conference covering the fields of system design and modeling, neural networks, and fuzzy control, which resemble the great variety of computational cybernetics. While it is sometimes difficult to integrate over these differing fields, we expect the evolution of future intelligent systems at the service of mankind by the synergetic integration of these different areas. It is our hope that the papers in this issue will inspire and help our readers in the development of advanced intelligent systems.