Contemporary cybernetics and its facets of cognitive informatics and computational intelligence

  • Authors:

  • Yingxu Wang;Witold Kinsner;Du Zhang

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Comp. Science, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA and International Center for Cognitive Inf. and Theoretical and Empirical Software Eng. Res. Center, Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Eng., Schuli ...;Institute of Industrial Mathematical Sciences and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada and Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Winn ...;Computer Science Department, California State University, Sacramento, CA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics - Special issue on cybernetics and cognitive informatics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper explores the architecture, theoretical foundations, and paradigms of contemporary cybernetics from perspectives of cognitive informatics (CI) and computational intelligence. The modern domain and the hierarchical behavioral model of cybernetics are elaborated at the imperative, autonomic, and cognitive layers. The CI facet of cybernetics is presented, which explains how the brain may be mimicked in cybernetics via CI and neural informatics. The computational intelligence facet is described with a generic intelligence model of cybernetics. The compatibility between natural and cybernetic intelligence is analyzed. A coherent framework of contemporary cybernetics is presented toward the development of transdisciplinary theories and applications in cybernetics, CI, and computational intelligence.