http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=86 Full text issues fr Mon, 13 May 2024 16:37:43 +0200 Mon, 15 Jul 2024 15:49:02 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=86 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1629 A rule determining sequences of conservative Poincaré sections of a topological space in which Life is embedded is proposed. A hamiltonian of living organisms and ecosystems should include: (i) kinetic components as the manifold of metabolic interactions, activity and anticipatory behavior leading to homeostatic and evolutionary adaptatinq (ii) potential components as the selection of expressed characters from DNA existing structures, and the construction of new genomic components by evolutionary processes. Both are connected to the set of environmental forces, and a distribution of hamiltonians of interacting organisms is proposed. Corollaries derive the conditions of occurence of evolution and identify boundaries to biological engineering within the Planet and the solar system as conservative embedding systems Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:06:32 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1629 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1646 The architecture, Complexity and Organized Behaviour Within Environmental Bounds (COBWEB), was developed to support an anticipatory approach to adaptation. COBWEB consists of a large number of autonomous agents, each a genetic algorithm, using different strategies to adapt to changing resource availability. Anticipatory genetic algorithms, that are Turing complete, as well as mutation are used to allow the agents to respond to a changing environment. The simulation has four attractors, which exhibit sensitivity to initial conditions, and the spatial patterns of the agents exhibit wide variation as well as local structure, which might indicate adapive or anticipatory behaviour Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:15:28 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1646 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1661 The members of a society (re)act according with their biological and technical spheres. with their aggregation, with their profoundness. So, a society is an implicit processor "for" relative explicit sub-processors dealing with initial information-decision-action-renewed information cycles. The scientific approach upon the transit: societal processor <=> sub-processors is an interdisciplinary one. The paper refers operative actions sub-processor as related with anticipatory sub-processor. This outlook generates an incursion inside the gap between reality and reflection, involving: societal knowledge term. ecological aggregate attitude as eco-consciousness, an approach toward Universal Consciousness term and connectionist corpus. The models of some paradoxes may be revised versus a new fuzziness approach both for operative and anticipatory actions. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:22:40 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1661 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1674 Activities of living beings are presented as bioinformation procedures of closed-looped coding-decoding. In the process of coding, dynamic states of real dynamical structures of matter and energy are reflected in states of memory structures (DNA, hormones, neuronets). In the process of decoding the activated states of the structures of the memory are re-reflected in the dynamic states of the real structures of matter and energy. This is the essence of control. Biological evolution is interpreted as formation of hierarchically organized dynamic structures of closed-looped coding-decoding and reproduction of them. Increased complexitv of these structures determines a higher level of control. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:47:08 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1674 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2772 In this article it isn't discussed concrete chemical mechanisms of origin of life but is given some common considerations, which can promote to the critical comprehension of existing approaches. The second section concerns physical, cybernetic and anticipatory aspects of the life evolution. The different approaches to the problems of biological evolution are discussed in the third section of the article. The attention is focused on the biosphere evolution, which is regarded as the control factor for the biological evolution. In the fourth section the problem of the origin of life is discussed. One of the conclusions is the mechanism of panspermic hypothesis could work only if the conditions on planet has specific features which can be described within a framework of so called the embryosphere hypothesis. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:48:59 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2772 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2777 In proposed report we consider the principles of constructions of new models of society, their applications and further research problems. Structure of proposed models consists from elements and bonds between them. Our societv models have analogies with neural network models. To account for mentality we propose to introduce the intrinsic mental models of World in elements, which represent the individuals or decision-makers. Accounting for the anticipatory aspects of individuals leads to presumable multivaluedness in models. Connections to consciousness and quantum mechanics investigations are discussed Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:51:28 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2777 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2782 The question we want to pose is : How is social searching possible in different complex environments ? We will answer this question by introducing a sociological cybernetic model of searching and apply this model to the social search operations on the Internet. No one has to our knowledge developed and applied such a model. The main argument is that searching can be viewed as a complex social medium, which are used in all social search systems. It is showed that to use the medium of searching, the paradox of searching stated by Plato must be transformed into something operational. Further it is argued that theory of meaning is the theoretical basic of anv search theory concerned with social searching. Finally, the paper suggests a new anticipatory way of programming search software. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:14:18 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2782 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2789 The purpose of this paper is to use a general systemic model to describe complex self-organizing systems, to interpret the present state of the Western society and build some scenarios for its possible futures. ln the first part we present the general holistic metamodel or language to interpret complex partly autonomous systems, like social, living or cognitive systems. In the second part we present C. W. Graves typology for systems of value or coping systems which we will use in the application of our model. ln the last part we use our general metamodel to represent the life cycle of the rationalist paradigm from the Renaissance to the present time and generate some prospective scenarios with the help of Graves' typology. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:47:10 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2789 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2797 Darwin's basic postulates for surviving are willpower and speed. These two characteristics will be demonstrated firstly for a single person in the autonomous state with regard to his self-realization. Self-realization is the ultimate goal of a living being. Secondly, and more important, it will be demonstrated how the individual characteristics evolve in a partnership of two persons. It is a fact that a person does not lose his individual characteristics when he enters a relationship (The leopard cannot change his spots). But his characteristics dissolve into the partnership. The partnership shows its own feature, depending on the individual partners' characteristics and the specific information exchanged between the two constituents. Such exchange happens unconsciously and consciously. The partners' self-realization becomes dependent on the partnership's character as a whole. Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:51:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2797 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3123 The paper deals with a certain fragment of global economic undertakings. This fragment involves methods applied in anticipating future states of processes and effects which these processes cause. These methods have been worked out in the last 100 years and were based on research carried out by companies operating on homogeneous local markets. They are used to analyze single financial, manufacturing, technical, social and other problems. Some of them allow to discover the effect of mutual influence of individual processes, namely, the effect of synergy. However, most of these methods are totally unsuitable for analyzing current global economy. The aim of the paper is to point out certain particular possibilities of improving the existing situation, at least partially. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:58:52 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3123 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3125 The effective use of market information is recognized as an important factor in determining success or failure of new products and as problematic area for firms (Ottum and Moore, 1997). It presents a crucial problem in countries in transition where market information on perceived quality of products did not play a pivotal role in decisionmaking in the past because demand exceeded supply. Two approaches which can promote the effective use of market information are described in the paper. The first one is based on objective data about the products applied in the Shocker-Srinivasan model. The second one is based on subjective data applied to predict the future behaviour of consumers. Both approaches are presented on the case of revealing the important attributes influencing the future purchasing behaviour of Slovenian consumers Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:04:53 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3125 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3131 The human management of geographical space is far from perfect. Factors that aggravate the situation may be found in the planning and decision support systems applied for managing decisions and actions concerning geographical space. A majority of those support systems are based on the reactive paradigm (Rosen, 1985) and the classical two-valued logic of an abstracted and idealised world (Kosko, 1993). So far, modern research in anticipatory computing, fuzzy logic and soft systems design unfortunately has not, to any significant extent, been applied in geographical management systems. The purpose of the work, reported in this paper, is to present some ideas {br a model for management of common regional resources, based on anticipation, soft systems design and systemic spatial modelling. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:10:47 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3131 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3137 Geographical space is modelled according to main principles of systemic modelling and the anticipatory paradigm. ln this way a computer based prototype supporting spatial decisions and the management of the physical environment is established. In using the prototype with real world historical data it is demonstrated that an anticipatory approach may ameliorate spatial planning and decision making. However, before being fully operational the model has to be improved in several ways. Further, attitudes, insights, and working skills of the physical planners and decision-makers have to be improved in order to take full advantage of the anticipatory approach. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:37:20 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3137 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3142 Activity-based costing literature has emphasized accurate cost assignment but management of product profitability must consider other aspects, too. This paper will especially discuss how the choice of the profitability measure can affect our impression of product profitability. A truly anticipatory system should also be able to estimate customer behavior, because both revenue and cost affect profitability. These aspects will be illustrated with examples. Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:40:49 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3142 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4500 The similarities and differences among methodologies and models of complex systems will be discussed from a general point of view. A hierarchical formal concept will be used to explain the systems approach method in modelling of complex systems. The methodology will be applied to a tourism system, which possesses the typical property of global and local organisation. A problem will be studied through multicriteria decision making, representing a good example of an anticipatory system that enables a tourists to make a right decision. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:29:35 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4500 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4507 Societal policy faces both complex and complicated challenges in a highly dynamic environment. Learning from previous experiences e.g. from advanced environmental systems, recent research begins to employ modelling and simulation for anticipatory policy support, for ex. by Early Detection Systems; Systems identifying Option and Action Space (Epstein, Axtell, 1996). The systemic nature and the preconditions of such endeavours need be to be investigated in more depth and detail as to their (meta-) methodical, procedural, object specific and actual background. Though closely connected with advanced computing, the emphasis will lie on the svstemic and the societal aspect of modelling. (Conte et alii ed. , 1997). Relying on results from field research on an authentic case (Republic South Africa. 1997/98, by the author) the paper attempts a systemic approach to basic modelling/simulation in the societal domain Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:36:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4507 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4513 We introduced a scheme of predicting the dynamic development of the monetary economy. Upon the observation of the robustness between the macrodynamic data and the microdynamic context generating the data, the most likely trajectory of the dynamic development in the near future could be the one that can remain most robust against fluctuations generated from within. The most robust trajectory towards the future is the one smoothly connected to the trajectory retracing, most faithfully, the macrodynamic data registered in the record so far. The present scheme was applied to the prediction of the foreign exchange rate between the Japanese Yen and the US Dollar during the year of 2001 retrospectively. Our prediction of the exchange rate four days in advance was found to coincide with the actual data, as for whether up or down in four days, with the statistical accuracy of 59 % upon more than 1000 independent samplings. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:43:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4513 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4520 Evidence obtained by computer analysis confirms the scientific validity of the now wide-spread use of semiotic-linguistic nomenclature to describe the workings of the genetic apparatus. It shows that both natural languages with their semantic speech stuctures, which are sign representations of human mental activity and thought, and genetic texts(ie DNA/ RNA and proteins, etc) exhibit a strategically close geometrical fractal framework. A similar analysis of random texts of the same characters leads to the loss of this framework. This not only points to a causal supergenetic relationship between such texts that proceeds at some level in the demonstrated fractal framework, but that, for example, Chomsky's concept of a universal grammar, in relation to all forms of human languages (including mathematics and computer languages), is probably not only correct but is naturally genetically inherent. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:53:01 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4520 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4527 Kant's theory of consciousness is related to quantum mechanics by his proof that the Democritos' atom is both indivisible and divisible like a photon in the two slits experiment. This paradox has been solved by Schroedinger's equation. It also leads to the conclusion that there is a collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics. It follows from the existence of two stages, preattentional and attentional, is visual search that quantum mechanics applies also to visual perception, and the object integration is a collapse of the wave function. The integration of macroscopic objects involves the migration of features between objects. We are unaware of this due to an anticipatory selection mechanism of the perceived sensory input. This migration of features occurs also inside an atom, changing few atoms of matter into atoms of antimatter. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:06:18 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4527 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4533 The homeopathy, proposed by Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, is based on three points : The "law of similarity" (if an active substance causes an illness, the same diluted substance can cure the same illness). The individualizing of the sick person and of his remedy. The choice of the dilution coming from the clinical researches. Many authors (1986, 1987, Cazin, Garborit, Chaoui, Boiron, Belon, Chemrault, Papapanayotou, 1988, Del Giudice, Preparata, Vitellio ; 1996, 1999, 2000, Conte, Berliocchi, Lasne, Vernot; ...) try to explain the problem of the dilution into the water. But any homeopathic model give us a complete clinical, chemical and physical explanation. However, the new idea of temporal openings of the Doubling Theory (1998, 1999, Garnier-Malet) brings a new explanation of principle of dilution. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:21:44 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4533 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4540 The universal Turing machine is an anticipatory theory of computability by any digital or quantum machine. However the Church-Turing hypothesis only gives weak anticipation. The construction of the quantum computer (unlike classical computing) requires theory with strong anticipation. Category theory provides the necessary coordinate-free mathematical language which is both constructive and non-local to subsume the various interpretations of quantum theory in one pullback/pushout Dolittle diagram. This diagrame can be used to test and classify physical devices and proposed algorithms for weak or strong anticipation. Quantum Information Science is more than a merger of Church-Tirring and quantum theories. It has constructively to bridge the non-local chasm between the weak anticipation of mathematics and the strong anticipation of physics , Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:47:39 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4540 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4546 The universal Turing machine is an anticipatory theory of computability by any digital or quantum machine. However the Church-Turing hypothesis only gives weak anticipation. The construction of the quantum computer (unlike classical computing) requires theory with strong anticipation. Category theory provides the necessary coordinate-free mathematical language which is both constructive and non-local to subsume the various interpretations of quantum theory in one pullback/pushout Dolittle diagram. This diagrame can be used to test and classify physical devices and proposed algorithms for weak or strong anticipation. Quantum Information Science is more than a merger of Church-Tirring and quantum theories. It has constructively to bridge the non-local chasm between the weak anticipation of mathematics and the strong anticipation of physics , Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:51:06 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4546 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4547 Self-reference, the postulated key to a more complete understanding of quantum mechanics, is shown to be a necessary mathematical basis for an evolution of all that exists in relation to a self-created quantum cosmology. The initial act of this self-creation - a critical phenomenon where the material phase transitions give rise simultaneously to mass and the strong, electro-magnetic, weak properties of mater in agreement with those of the standard model of elementary particle physics - is shown to concern 3+l dimensional Lorentzian space/time and Einstein's general relativity. Similarly subsequent acts giving rise to entirely novel material phase transitions and properties of matter, as predicted by renormalization group theory for which K.G. Wilson received the Nobel Prize, may include, evidence is presenæd those of self-aware, possibly conscious, living systems. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 10:58:55 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4547 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4553 Quantum mechanics furnishes each quantum with synchronous time in one form or another. Every participant to forming a quantum fits perfectly well into every other joining there all at once. It shares the same synchronous time. In contrast, synchronous time in interaction among interacting quanta is constructed in a bottom-up manner. A most conspicuous case of the internalist construction of synchronous time in interaction is seen in the quantum coherence to be realized in the biological realm. One demonstrative case is the occurrence of a weak magnetization along an actin filament sliding on myosin molecules as hydrolyzing AlT molecules. One more case is with the quantum coherence associated with synchronization acting in the conscious brain Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:26:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4553 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4559 I simulated a large Hopfield neural net which had the signum instead of sigmoid activation function so that it could be naturally physically implemented, e.g. in spin systems. It has been used in computational simulations in order to analyze the following capabilities of processing very large and complex data sets (e.g., protein-structure data-bases): 1. completion of patterns; 2. recognition of patterns; 3. prediction of unknown parameters; 4. a.nticipation. While for tasks 1-3 we use a memory-ba,se of previouslylearned examples using "a,ssociations", ta.sk 4 is equivalent to case 3 re-interpreted for temporal (or timeseries) prediction, i.e. prediction of unknown future parameter-values (instead of unknown present ones). For tasks 3 and 4 it is concluded that a generalization of the model used in simulation, like phase-Hebb processing or quantum-like information dynamics, if more promising. Data-structure conditions for success of tasks l-4 are discussed in a complex "real-life" example. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:35:24 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4559 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4563 TGD based quantum measurement theory predicts that each quantum jump involves a localization in zero modes giving rise to ordinary quantum measurement followed by a state preparation by self measurements leading to an unentangled product state. The sequence of quantum jumps defines a statistical ensemble and this suggests strongly a connection between the theory of qualia and thermodynamics. Sensory qualia can be divided to purely geometric ones represented by the average increments of zero modes (quantum measurement) and to non-geometric ones represented by average increments of quantum numbers (state preparation). Emotional qualia can be assigned to the entropic gradients associated with quantum jump sequence. The hypothesis about manysheeted ionic flow equilibrium involving superconducting magnetic flux tubes explains the strange effects of ELF em fields on living matter and the observations challenging the notions of ionic pumps and channels. Together with the padic length scale hypothesis it leads to the notion of spectroscopy of consciousiness explaining the resonance frequencies of EEG and correlating EEG bands and brain structures with the structure of the periodic table. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:40:02 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4563 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4569 This work is the result of many years of investigations, clinical and laboratory, into the problems of understanding how living systems make use of electromagnetic fields and frequencies and into the physics underlying homoeopathy. Water is essential to life as we know it, living systems have extremely high electic fields across membranes in an aqueous environment, and make use of electrical commnnication systems. From Quantum Electrodynamics Theory, Del Giudice and Preparata have proposed that water has domains of coherence in the ground state as a fundamental properly. In this paper the properties of coherent systems are applied to frequencies in water and living systems. It is shown that arithmetical operations can be performed on these frequencies. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:46:01 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4569 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1625 This third volume contains the last part of the partial proceedings of the papers presented at the Fifth International Conference CASYS’01 on computing anticipatory systems. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:01:19 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1625