CONTENTS -- Editorial advisory board -- Preface -- Editorial -- Second-order cybernetics and enactive perception -- Semantic category theory cognition and conceptual reference -- Bipolar logic and probabilistic interpretation -- Cooperative clans -- Future reasoning machines: mind and body -- Machine vision methods for autonomous micro-robotic systems -- Optimisation enhancement using self-organising fuzzy control -- Intelligent agents and distributed models for cooperative task support -- Landscape classification and problem specific reasoning for genetic algorithms -- Business cybernetics: a provocative suggestion -- Dynamic portfolio management under competing representations -- Enterprise resource planning competence centres: a case study -- Time and systems -- Systemic philosophy and the philosophy of social science -- Image labelling in real conditions -- Aspects of a theory of systemic construction -- To performance evaluation of distributed parallel algorithms -- Contemporary systems and cybernetics -- Internet commentary -- Book reviews -- Book reports -- News, conferences and technical reports -- Announcements -- Special announcements.