CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 NUMBER 1 1 A FUZZY SCHEME WITH APPLICATION TO EXPERT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR COMPUTING THE DEGREE OF MATCH BETWEEN A RULE AND AN ASSERTION Seongwon Cho and Mark R. Lehto A NEURONAL MODEL WITH VARIABLE SYNAPTIC INPUT EFFECT M. Musila and P. Lansky PHYSICAL AND THEORETICAL FEA’ URES IN THE SIMULATION OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: THE SPIDER’S WEB N. M. Gotts and F. Vollrath CYBERNETIC MODEL OF THE RAILWAY ENTERPRISE lordanis K. Paradissopoulos MATHEMATICAL MODELING, SIMULATIONS, AND ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS, PART 1: SOLUTIONS OF THE HIERARCHICALLY COUPLED DRIVING-FORCE MODEL (HCD MODEL) BY CLOSED INTEGRATION L. Diinkel and E. Nutsch 115 NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 2 117 MODELING AND LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING: AN OBSERVER’S PERSPECTIVE F. J. Radermacher SYSTEM THEORY AND THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE Irving Silverman HOW DOES NEW EVIDENCE CHANGE OUR ESTIMATES OF PROBABILITIES? CARNAP’S FORMULA REVISITED Viadik Kreinovich and Chris Quintana REACHING OUT FOR HETERARCHY (A STUDY OF THE REORGANIZING OF A NORWEGIAN SHIPYARD) Jon-Arild Johannessen and Arnulf Hauan SERIAL SKETCHING: VISUAL PROBLEM SOLVING IN DESIGNING Gabriela Goldschmidt ON MISERE GAMES Ranan B. Banerji and Charles A. Dunning LIMERICKS ABOUT CYBERNETICS Stuart A. Umpleby NUMBERS 3-4 Special Issue: Eurocast 1991 International Workshop on Computer Aided Systems Theory iii EDITORIAL NOTE A SYSTEMATIC METHOD FOR EXPLORING CONTOUR SEGMENT DESCRIPTIONS J. Cabrera, A. Falcén, F. M. Hernandez, and J. A. Méndez ASYNCHRONOUS DIALOGUE CONTROL IN A MEDICAL GRAPHIC INTERFACE R. Marin, M. Taboada, G. Mourifio, F. Soria, J. Mira, and A. Delgado THE APPLICATION OF STRUCTURED SPREADSHEET MODELING IN MEDICINE Peter Kokol, Bruno Stiglic, Viljem Zumer, Jernej Zavrsnik, Martin Bigec, Jelka Saherl, Kurt Kancler, and Anton Zidanik ADAPTIVE METHOD FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED IN LOCAL FEATURE P. Medina-Rodriguez, E. Fernandez-Garcia, and A. Diaz-Urrestarazu IMAGE CODING THROUGH PROGRESSIVE RESOLUTION TRANSFORMS E. Rovaris, S. Candela, and R. Jezieniecki FC: A RELATIONAL QUERY LANGUAGE HAVING THE PROPERTY OF FUNCTIONAL COMPLETENESS Maria C. Fernandez-Baizan, Rafael Portaencasa Baeza, and Arturo Ribagorda Garnacho THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTIMATION AND APPROXIMATION METHODS IN SYSTEM THEORY Eugen-Georg Woschni A PARALLEL ALGORITHM FOR HOUSEHOLDER’S TRIDIAGONALIZATION OF A SYMMETRIC MATRIX J. C. Cabaleiro, F. F. Rivera, O. G. Plata, and E. L. Zapata A HYBRID ARCHITECTURE FOR DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS CONTROL AGENTS Khosrow C. Hadavi ROBOT PATH PLANNING IN THE CONFIGURATION SPACE WITH AUTOMATIC OBSTACLE TRANSFORMATION Maria Teresa de Pedro and Ricardo Garcia Rosa THEORY AND ALGORITHMS ON PERIOD ASSIGNMENT OF DISCRETE-EVENT DYNAMIC SYSTEMS Chen Wen-De and Qi Xiang-Dong A MACHINE LEARNING-BASED APPROACH TO LOAD BALANCING IN COMPUTER NETWORKS Miroslav Kubat STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE IN AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR AGRICULTURE S. Tanez, A. Bosch, F. Bienvenido, R. Marin, F. Soria, F. Cafiabate, and J. Mira CAUSAL BAYESIAN REASONING IN MEDICINE F. J. Diez Vegas and J. Mira Mira COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY AND DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS THEORY Eliano Pessa IMPROVING NEURAL NET TRAINING BY MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION A. Troll and W. Feiten NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS NUMBER 5 463 AN IMPROVED ALGORITHM FOR INEXACT REASONING BASED ON EXTENDED FUZZY PRODUCTION RULES Shyi-Ming Chen 483 RCE CLASSIFIERS: THEORY AND PRACTICE Michael J. Hudak 517 GENERAL THEORY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS Stefan Z. Stefanov 531 A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED SYSTEMS Nikitas Assimakopoulos NUMBER 6 549 STRUCTURE AND BEHAVIOR IN GENERAL SYSTEMS THEORY Antonio Caselles A NEW APPROACH TO INEXACT REASONING FOR RULE-BASED SYSTEMS Shyi-Ming Chen ON EXISTENCE AND STRONG CONSISTENCY OF A CLASS OF FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING PROCEDURES Miin-Shen Yang and Kai Fun Yu AN APPROACH TO THE ENTROPY OF (A OR 8) VIA MAXIMIZATION OF CONDITIONAL ENTROPY Guy Jumarie A GRAMMAR-THEORETIC TREATMENT OF MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS Jozef Kelemen and Alica Kelemenova FOLLOWING PAGE 634: TITLE PAGE TO VOLUME 23 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 23 AUTHOR INDEX TO VOLUME 23