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July 5-7, 2012: HSSS-Conf Systems Approach to Strategic Mgmt
2012 International HSSS Scientific & Professional Conference
Systems Approach to Strategic Management
A Scientific Conference for Professionals
http://www.2012.hsss.eu
Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS)
8th. HSSS National & International Conference
in cooperation with
Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia
Thessaloniki, Greece.
05 - 07 July, 2012
Abstracts deadline up to March 31, 2012.
Kybernetes Journal: Call for Editor
An exciting opportunity – Kybernetes Call for Editor
Kybernetes: The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences
Emerald Group Publishing Limited is inviting applications for the position of Editor of Kybernetes: The international journal of cybernetics, systems and management sciences (www.emeraldinsight.com/k.htm) from individuals and teams of 2-3 candidates. This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious and focused individuals with solid editorial experience to edit an exciting journal in Emerald's Information and Knowledge Management portfolio.
About Kybernetes:
Kybernetes is an ISI ranked journal which aims to endow cybernetics, general systems and management sciences with an authoritative voice of its own and to establish a competent international forum for the exchange of knowledge and information. Kybernetes is also the official journal of the UNESCO recognized, World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC).
The role of the journal Editor:
Emerald is seeking to recruit an engaged and enthusiastic Editor or Editors to develop the journal.
The journal Editor receives an honorarium in lieu of his/her work on the journal. Additional budget is also made available to the Editor to part-fund attendance at conferences or other events of relevance to the journal.
Kybernetes will be taking advantage of the ScholarOne Manuscripts online submission and review system. The new editorial team will receive full training and support.
Next steps:
Interested individuals are invited to submit a CV and a proposal outlining how they would seek to develop the journal over the course of their editorship. Proposals from individuals and small teams of 2-3 candidates will be considered. It is anticipated that the new Editor will assume responsibility for the journal in June 2012.
Applications for this position should be submitted by 1 March 2012, by e-mail, to:
Ruth Glasspool
Publisher
rglasspool@emeraldinsight.com
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Please also direct any queries you may have to Ruth Glasspool, Publisher: rglasspool@emeraldinsight.com
11 PhD Scholarships in the Hull Univ. Business School, UK
11 PhD Scholarships in the Hull University Business School
The Centre for Systems Studies, based in the Business School at the University of Hull (UK), has a strong international reputation for its cutting edge work on the theory, methodology and practice of systems thinking. The Business School is currently advertising 11 PhD scholarships: 7 paid for by the University, and 4 paid for by the Business School itself (the terms and conditions of the two types of scholarship are slightly different – see below).
We would like to strongly encourage people with exciting research ideas in the broad field of systems thinking to apply for these scholarships. While there will be applicants across all the research interests of the Business School, and the scholarships are allocated on merit, the Centre for Systems Studies has always previously been able to put forward several strong candidates, and we hope to be able to do so again this year.
Please click on the links below for details of the two types of scholarship. Applicants need to apply for both a PhD place and a scholarship by 2 March 2012, with a view to starting a full-time PhD in September 2012.
HUBS scholarships:
http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/money/bursariesandscholarships/businesssc...
University scholarships:
Gerald Midgley, Prof.
April 10~13 ,EMCSR2012,Wien
Disaster and Systemic Reaction -EMCSR2012
Systematic Approaches to Regional Disasters(Symposium C at EMCSR 2012
April 10~13,2012 Vienna University Austria
Extended Abstract:Zipfs Law and Human Activity with CV(by Takaku)
scedule: Flight Tokyo 4/9 11.15-Wien 4/9 16.00 (NH6325)
Wien-Linz:April 13 after EMCSR 2012,Transportation(not yet ,depending on IFSR plan)
April 4-5, 2012: PODIM : Potentials of Creative Industries
PODIM 2012: 32nd International Conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
»Potentials of Creative Industries«
Maribor (Slovenia), April 4th and 5th 2012
It will gather more than 300 entrepreneurs, managers, academics and policy makers to explore development and growth of companies in cultural and creative industries, as well as discuss business opportunities offered by the products and services created in those companies.
Further details at: “http://en.podim.org“
Submission of abstracts to barbara.bradac@uni-mb.si
IPMMP, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Maribor, SI-2000 Maribor, Slovenia
Disasters and Systemic Reaction - EMCSR 2012!
Systemic Approaches to Regional Disasters (Symposium C at EMCSR 2012)
April 10 - 13, 2012 Vienna University Austria
Awareness of threats and the occurrence of actual disasters (many caused by nature but often triggered by human activities) have become more acute during the last decades, endangering a growing number of persons and areas in many different ways.
We organize a symposium on
“Systemic Approaches to Regional Disasters”,
as part of the European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2012), from April 10 – 13, 2012 at the Vienna University.
We invite you submit an EXTENDED ABSTRACT (1 – 3 pages) together with a quarter page CV for this Symposium C discussing one or more aspects of this highly relevant topic.
You find a more elaborate description of the intended sympoisum on ->Symposium C
For further information contact ->Gerhard Chroust.
Gerhard Chroust and Nadine Sturm
International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'12)
It is our great pleasure to announce the first International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS'12), , which will be held at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco on November 5 - 6, 2012, in memory of the late Professor Lorenzo Ferrer Figueras, ex-president of the Spanish Society of General Systems.
The conference will focus on the topics to which Professor Lorenzo Ferrer most contributed: Systems Theory, Complexity, Chaos, etc.
Website: http://iccs12.org/
Contact: nemiche@uv.es
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Complex Dynamic Systems and Globalization
General System Theory and Methodology
Complex Social and Ecological Systems
Economical, Political and Juridical Systems
Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Modeling
Mathematical Methods in Cybernetics and Systems Theory
Sociocybernetics and Mathematical Sociology
Fractals, Chaos and Complexity
Biologically-Inspired Artificial Systems
Fuzzy Theory and Applications
Multi-agent Social Simulation and Cognitive Modeling with Agents
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
Adaptive Agents and Multi-agent Learning
Agent and Multi-agent Architectures
Game Theory, Strategic Decision-Making in Competitive Environments
Diagnosis and Fault-tolerant Control Systems
Modeling and Control Systems
Hardware-Software Co-Design, Embedded Systems
Complex Biomedical Engineering
Information and Communication Technologies for Services Modeling, Services Composition and Services
Management
March 8-10, 2012: 7. IRDO Conf: Social Responsibility,Innovation
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th IRDO international conference on
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND CURRENT CHALLENGES 2012
INNOVATION OF CULTURE TOWARD MORE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- THE WAY OUT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL CRISIS
Thursday – Saturday, the 8th -10th March 2012
MARIBOR, Slovenia
for more details contact:
www.irdo.si or:
IRDO - Institute for the Development of Social Responsibility
Preradovičeva ulica 26, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia,
E-mail: info@irdo.si, Fax: + 386 (0)2 429 71 04
Feb. 15 - 18, ICSCI 2012, Hyderabad
ICSCI 2012, International Conference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Feb. 15 - 18, 2012, Hyderabad, India
Important dates:
Further details and submissions: www.icsci.net and icscimail@yahoo.com
Aug. 6-8, 2012: 6th Global Conf on Power Control + Optimization'
It is our great pleasure to announce the sixth Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO 2012, which will be held in Mount Carlo hotel, Las Vegas, Unites States of America, from 6 - 8 August 2012. ISBN: 983-44483-56
The scope of the conference is contemporary and original research and educational development in the area of mechanical, electrical, communication, sustainable energy, controllers, robotics, wireless sensors, biomedicine, computing, nano-science, management, environment, business, continuous and hybrid optimization.
Prospective authors from universities or other educational institutes and industry are invited to submit abstract and/or full paper by email before the deadline. All papers submitted before the deadline will be peer reviewed by independent specialists.
The conference proceedings will be published in the PCO CD. Selected reviewed and registered papers will be published online by AIP proceeding. Some other selected papers will be requested to submit an extended version to Elsevier, Springer, InderScience, GJTO, Taylor & Frances, PEP and others for special issue journal publication. These will be re-reviewed by the journal editorial boards
Proposals for holding tutorial, workshop, special session, exhibition are invited from academia and industrial bodies, and should be addressed to the conference secretariat. The conference organizing committee is currently looking for financial sponsors from industry, academia, and professional bodies.
The conference proceedings of PCO'2008 Thailand, PCO'2009 Indonesia and PCO2010 Australia are indexed by Thomson Reuters and SCOPUS, and promoted by EBSCO, Springer09 and Springer10, respectively. These are published online by AIP (2008, 2009, 2010, 2010')
All correspondence should be addressed to the conference secretariat:
Tel: 605 3711416, 6085 443821
Email: pcoglobal@gmail.com
Website: http://www.pcoglobal.com
(??date?? 2011: C-f-P: Springer Encyclopedia of Food + Agricultu
On behalf of Janet McIntyre-Mills
(janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.au):
As we speak more than 20 million people are displaced and starving in east Africa Many developed and developing nations are mining farmland for energy or minerals or allowing sprawling cities to claim the land and forests on which we depend.
As systemic academics who think in terms of the big picture and who will be vital to leading a systemic sustainable vision, I would like to invite you on behalf of Springer to contribute to the Springer Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics.
If you accept I understand that you will receive an invitation from Somodatta Roy, on behalf of Springer.
Please send this invitation to academics who you think will be able to make difference
I am unable to provide any further information, perhaps you could refer potential contributors to the website as follows:
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/agriculture/book/978-94-007-0928-7
April 10-13, 2012 : EMCSR in Vienna AGAIN!
EMCSR 2012 - 21th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research ikn Vienna
After chairing 20 European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research in Vienna Robert Trappl handed over the responsibility of organising the next meetings to Wolfgang Hofkirchner who accepted on behalf of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS).
A new website is established (http://www.emcsr.net) on which you can follow the steps taken. A Call for Symposia has been released. Researchers are encouraged to organise sessions from paper sessions to round tables to open space. The upcoming EMCSR 2012 will focus on the self-reflection of the field.
June 9, 2011: Film Project 'History of Cybernetics'
A new film project has been started in France, as Ranulph Glanville informed us. If you want to get involved, please contact the initiators personally. (gc)
My name is Claire Perrier and I am currently working with the filmmaker Philippe Borrel who is directing a 90 minute documentary about the convergent technologies revolution for the French and German cultural channel Arte TV. I am in charge of the research and collecting of the archive video footage. The film is produced by the French production company Cinétévé and will be broadcasted in 2012.
The filmmaker will talk in his film about the beginning and the history of the cybernetic sciences and researches. I am looking for some archival footage that would tell this story : interviews from the first cybernetic scientists like Norbert Wiener, the Macy conferences, other meetings, researches, interviews, archival news, etc... Anything that would allow us to tell this story and show how the cybernetics started. We are looking for archival footage, but if none existed, we would also be interested in archival photographies.
I would be very grateful to you if you could tell me who I should contact for this research or where I could find such archives.
Thanks a lot for your answer and please do not hesitate to contact me if you need any further information regarding this project.
Best regards,
Claire Perrier de la Bâthie
Archive footage researcher
Cinétévé
4, Quai des Célestins
75004 Paris - France
Ph - +33(0)1 48 04 30 00
Fax : +33 (0)1 48 04 70 38
Cell - +33 (0) 6 28 70 02 58
August 8-13, 2011: 10th Int. Conf. CASYS'11, Belgium
10th International Conference,
CASYS'11,
on
COMPUTING ANTICIPATORY SYSTEMS,
HEC - Management School of the University of Liege (HEC-ULg),
AUGUST 8-13, 2011,
organized by our ASBL CHAOS, Member of IFSR.
See the website for more informations:
http://www2.ulg.ac.be/mathgen/CHAOS/
________________________
Nov. 10-13, 2011: 5th Intern. Heinz v. Foerster Congress, Vienna
5th International Heinz von Foerster Congress.
Again, the University of Vienna will be the venue of discussions on the efforts as well as the effects of Heinz von Foerster’s work and life.
It is only one of the special aims of this year’s conference to celebrate von Foerster’s 100th birthday. As to celebrating his work, we deem it appropriate to start with implications of Heinz von Foerster’s early works, as represented by his early quantum-physical interpretation of memory and by his seminal work on self-organizing systems in the early 1960ies. Accordingly, this year’s conference moves along two quite different and – nevertheless – related tracks
Emergent Quantum Mechanics (primarily targeted audience: physicists); convened by Gerhard Grössing
Emergence and self organisation in the worlds of society and nature (primarily targeted audience: specialists in sciences and humanities, and a general audience); convened by Albert Müller and Karl H. Müller
There is a conference web-site online (to be updated permanently throughout the next months)
http://www.univie.ac.at/hvf11/congress/index.html
The conference will take place at the main building of the University of Vienna from 10th to 13th November 2011. There will be special seminars before and after the conference, and a series of documentary films on topics related to cybernetics to be seen at a Viennese cinema.
Registration is possible from now onwards. To register as a participant of the conference, please send an informal e-mail to hvf11.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at using “registration” as a subject line. There is no registration or entrance fee.
The 5th International Heinz von Foerster Conference is sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research, the City of Vienna, and Blaha Büromöbel. Co-organizers are the Heinz von Foerster Society, WISDOM, Dept. of Contemporary History, University of Vienna, Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies in cooperation with the American Society for Cybernetics.
Gerhard Grössing
Albert Müller
Karl H. Müller
August 8-11, 2011: ASC-Conf: "Listening", Richmond, USA
A Conference on the theme of "Listening" promoted by the American Society for Cybernetics, August 2011
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT (FOR GENERAL USE)
The American Society for Cybernetics is pleased to make a second announcement of our conference, to be held in Richmond, Indiana, 11 to 13 August 2011, focussing on the theme of Listening. We take listening to be a metaphor for attentively attending to others, to understand their intentions and wishes in the most generous manner. We hold that listening is the key to conversation, making conversation possible in the first place while also providing the mind set in which conversation can succeed, including (for instance) generosity towards others and non-judgmental, without which we just impost our own ideas and understandings of our conversational partners. We use both the terms listening and conversation in ways expanded from their original, aural forms.
The conference is based in holding conversations in small groups around given themes. These conversations are reported back to all groups in plenary sessions. There are possibilities to present papers in a number of ways. We are currently building a list of workshops and performances, which will be posted on the conference web site
( see homepage here).
There will be evening events some of which will be preplanned, but many of which will arise as a result of conference conversations. Our aim is to be responsive to possibilities. We are also offering pre-and post-conferences, which are without fee for those attending the main conference. The pre-conference will be concerned with a discussion arising from the recent cybernetics of cybernetics competition recently sponsored by the ASC. The post conference will provide an opportunity to study selected papers by Heinz von Foerster (whose centenary we are studying) and Ernst von Glasersfeld (who died shortly after addressing our conference last year).
A number of very distinguished people with major international reputations have already expressed a wish to attend.
There is a second early bird rate which holds until 7 July. We ask those who wish to attend to register and then make a statement of interest (which allows us to assemble toe conference booklet very fast). If you have any problem with this procedure, please contact secretary@asc-cybernetics.org.
Ranulph Glanville
Conference Co-chair, ASC President
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July 18-22, 2011: Workshop Reacting Systemically to Disasters
You are invited to contribute to a
Workshop: Reacting Systemically to Regional Disasters
at the ISSS 2011 Congress in Hull, UK
>>>Change of date and time!<<<
Monday, July 18, 18:30 – 20:30 and
Friday July 22, 13:30 – 16:00
Organizers:
Gerhard Chroust (J. Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Dennis Finlayson (development consultant, UK)
For details see:
ISSS 2011 Program ("isss.org/world/2011_program")
May 7, 2011: Luigi Maria Ricciardi passed away
With deep sadness we inform you that Professor
Luigi Maria Ricciardi passed away on May 7th in Napoli.
Luigi was charming, intelligent and supportive, and we will miss him.
We have lost a great scientist and a real friend.
The cybernetics community has lost an important scientist and we members of the Programme Committee of the EMCSRs have lost an always helpful, warm-hearted friend.
His studies on Cybernetics and Complex Systems, as well as on Computational Probability, opened new scientific directions; his contributions were the start up for many further researches. He was a leader able to pervade with his enthusiasm new generations making many students growing up into scientists.
His humanity and his magnificent hospitality in his beloved Napoli will remain in our memories together with the exciting afternoons of work in his office at the Mathematics Department.
We remember Luigi Ricciardi's insightful and supportive comments in many meetings. We shall miss him greatly.
Amelia Nobile, Nivia Giorno, Antonio Di Crescenzo, Robert Trappl, Ranulph Glanville, Stuart Umpleby, Matjaz Mulej, Gerhard Chroust, and all his friends
August 10-13, 2011: ASC: Conference on LISTENING
Conversational Conference on the theme of LISTENING
Richmond, Indiana, USA, 10 to 13 August 2011
We regard listening as the key act that turns talking into conversation. However, we use these words metaphorically, and not just literally: we do not mean to concentrate on the aural senses, but on the idea that it is the recipient who gives meaning to what they hear. This is how they release the potential in a statement made by another into conversation, whether the conversation is in words, acts, gestures, or indeed any other medium of communication. This can lead to the development of understanding of the other so important in human relations (perhaps specially in fields such as psycho-therapy, management, education and music).
Our conference is organised around informal and generous conversations in small groups, but has space for formal paper presentations and performances. We are also inviting experiential workshops. There is a sliding scale of charges. For those attending, there are free add-on events before and after.
Please visit the conference web site at www.asc-cybernetics.org/2011/. Note, applicants for the conference need to fill in a statement of interest. Go to http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2011/?page_id=69 and click on SIGN UP button in the middle of the text.
You can get a sense of the richness of last year’s conference by going to www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/.
We hope to welcome you to our conferences!
Ranulph Glanville, ASC President
April 2012: IFSR-conversation in Linz, Austria
The IFSR will hold the next IFSR Conversation (originally ‚Fuschl Conversation‘)
from Saturday April 14 to Thursday April 19, 2012 in Linz, Austria ( see http://www.ifsr.org/node/19)
The 2012 Conversation continues along the structure of previous Conversations (see
http://www.ifsr.org/node/33 ).
July 17-22, 2011:ISSS 2011 Conference and Workshops
55th Meeting of the ISSS
International Society for the Systems Sciences
Hull University Business School, Hull, UK
July 17-22, 2011
„ All together now – working across disciplines: People, principles and practice“
This is the theme of the 55th meeting of the ISSS. We have learnt, that although academic rigour benefits from being razor-sharp in concept and thinking, transdisciplinary systemic practice benefits from the possibility to tap into a large portfolio of different and sometimes contrasting models, methods and instruments. The quest for successful holistic applications highlights the necessity to work across disciplines and to unite the different systemic schools and disciplines and to develop the people skills and capabilities for doing so.
"All together now" shall be an invitation to explore the conditions for the possibility to improve and increase systemic applications and the performance for contemporary and future challenges in business, politics, project management and education – to name but a few.
We encourage those interested in attending the conference to submit an abstract for a full paper or poster, or organize a workshop or other session stream, and begin working with us in creating this important event.
For more details:
2011-03-19: ALAS 2011 – IV INTERNAT CONGRESS OF ALAS
ALAS – The LATIN AMERICAN ASOCIATION OF SYSTEMICS and
GESI - The GROUP FOR THE STUDY OF INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
Are proud to invite you to:
ALAS 2011
IV INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SYSTEMICS
Buenos Aires , 25, 26, 27 August 2011
Central topic:
SYSTEMIC APPROACH OF THE STRUCTURAL POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA
Organized by:
GESI – GRUPO DE ESTUDIO DE SISTEMAS INTEGRADOS
PIONEER SYSTEMS INSTITUTION IN L.A. SINCE 1976
More detailed information will be available as from March 2011
here: www.alas-sistemica.org
or
here: www.gesi-online.com.ar
2011-03-03 7th. HSSS Conf 'Professional Systemics in Action'
Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies (HSSS)
7th. HSSS National & International Conference
in cooperation with
University of Piraeus and Panteio University
Athens, Greece.
04 - 07 May, 2011
Professional Systemics in Action
Call for Papers
A Scientific Conference for Professionals
for details see
http://www.hsss2011.gr
2011-02-12: 8th EUS Conf. Bruxelles, Oct 12-22, 2011
Call for Abstracts/Papers
8th Conference of the EUS European Union for Systemics
Related and Collocated Symposia on October 19th -22nd, 2011
Bruxelles, Belgium, Europa
Systemic approach of diversity From knowledge to practice From practice to knowledge
more details: http://systemica2011.eu
2011-01-16: 55th Meeting of the ISSS (Hull, UK, July 17-22)
55th Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)
Hull University Business School, Hull, UK
July 17-22, 2011
Theme: All together now - working across disciplines: People, principles and practice
For details click here or contact isssoffice@dsl.pipex.com
2011-01-04 Berliner November 2010 (GfK) Oct. 28, 2010
The Berliner November, the joint annual meeting of the (Deutsche) Gesellschaft für Kybernetik (GfK) and the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information (GPI), took place in Berlin on October 29, 2010.
Find here a more detailed account here
2010-12-19 IASCYS Meetings in Chengdu, China
Pictures are available under the label 'Picture Gallery'
2010-12-09 Ackoff:'Differences That Make a Difference' appeared
Differences That Make a Difference: An annotated glossary of distinctions important in management by Russell L. Ackoff
(a triarchy press publication )
Foreword by Charles Handy
Publication Date: 9 December 2010
No of pages: 144
Book type: Paperback
Print ISBN: 978-1-908009-01-2
List Price: £14
2010-12-03: 8th Congress of European Union of Systemics-Okt2011
The 8th Congress of the European Union of Systemics “Systemic approach of diversity : from knowledge to practise - from practise to knowledge“ (EUS-UES : http://www.eus-ues.eu/) will be held in Bruxelles (Belgium), from the 20h to the 22th of October 2011, at the Institute of Sociology de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. The official working languages of the Congress are English and French, for papers, presentations or posters sessions but workshops may be organised in all the languages of the European Union. Please look at http://systemica2011.eu (English version & Nederlandse versie are available) for more information. The Congress is organised by the Belgian association S&O (Systèmes et Organisations http://www.s-o.be ). The Call for Papers is open (deadline for papers : 15/03/2011). For more information about the previous Congresses you may look at http://www.res-systemica.org the online review of the EUS/EUS.
(AFSCET : Association Française de science des Systèmes Cybernétiques cognitifs Et Techniques)
2010-11-20 Cybernetics of Cybernetics—a competition
reminder (deadline jan 31, 2011): Cybernetics of Cybernetics—a competition
The American Society for Cybernetics reminds all interested parties of our Cybernetics of Cybernetics competition (open to all, prize fund up to US$ 1500), to propose cybernetic ways in which a Society for cybernetics might be organised and behave. This follows a suggestion from Margaret Mead, the founding mother of cybernetics summarised below. Submissions should be received by noon, GMT, on 31 January 2011. Full details can be found at http://www.asc‑cybernetics.org/CofC/
We welcome your interest and your suggestions! The submission date is 31 January 2011.
Ranulph Glanville
President, ASC
2010-09-04 IFSR Conversation (Pernegg 2010) available!
The proceeding of the IFSR Conversation in Pernegg 2010 are now available!
see Proceedings of the IFSR Conversation 2010, Pernegg
2010-08-19: ASC-Competition "Cybernetics of Cybernetics"
Cybernetics of Cybernetics
The American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) is promoting a competition open to all to explore how cybernetic understandings might be applied to the workings of a society for the study of cybernetics, such as the ASC. The inspiration for the competition comes from Margaret Mead’s paper “Cybernetics of Cybernetics,” in which she proposes the need for such societies to pay attention to the cybernetic principles they propose, in their own functioning.
Submissions should take no more than 6 sides of US letter or A4 paper, with 12 point print on 15 point spacing. However, forms other than the written word will accepted. All entries will be registered under the collective commons licence. The ASC may chose to implement any suggestions.
For further details (including the full quote from Margaret Mead), please visit http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/CofC
The competition is formally announced on 1 August 2010 and full details will be available on the web site shortly after that date. Judges are being finalised but include Mary Catherine Bateson, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Humberto Maturana and Ranulph Glanville.
Ranulph Glanville ASC President
2010-07-29 Ken Bausch - New Book
Body Wisdom – Interplay of Body and Ego - by Ken Bausch
Body is wiser than Ego.
Ego is cleverer than Body.
When Ego catches Body’s tune, a song happens.
When Ego catches Body’s intuition, magic happens.
An idea is born.
When we focus with our hearts on troubling questions, our unconscious comes through for us. Open questions posed to the unconscious act as the strange attractors of chaos theory. They enable the creative speech of discovery.
In this book, you will explore how your ego rises from your body through language. You will appreciate how the creative thinking enabled by body–ego interplay builds your personality overtime. The personal and social realms you create have remarkable properties. When you understand those properties, you open new vistas for viewing empathy, visions, hallucinations, dreams, and the reality of language. You open new ways to understand objective reality, the reality of religious myths, and even the reality of death.
The motif of most Western thought since the time of Zoroaster and Plato is that we are minds (and souls) trapped within physical bodies. St Augustine reinforced this tradition and Descartes formalized it. The upright man, as symbolized by the stick figure (all head and almost no body) became a standard Western conception.
Nietzsche saw the evil of this conception and protested it loudly. Merleau-Ponty demonstrated that our bodies both know and are known. Freud and Lacan showed how the ego rises from the body through the magic of language. Our bodies are microcosms of the universe and bearers of its unspoken secrets. Holograms, chaos theory, and fractal geometry bear witness.
For more about this book and its blog, go to
www.bodywisdombook.com
2010-06-25: 1st Conf. on a Science of Information (Beijing)
The first ever conference on a science of information will be held at
the Capital Normal University, Beijing, China, 21‑24 August 2010. A
science of information comprises philosophical, system theoretical,
and disciplinary approaches to understand and tackle information. It
includes Information (and Communication) Technology and Information
Society studies as well. The conference is co‑organised by IFSR member
organisation Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science. For
further information look at the website
www.sciforum.net/conf/fis2010/
which will be regularly updated.
2010-06-21 ISSS-2010 Workshop: 'Supporting First Responders'
Workshop 'Supporting First Responders' at ISSS 2010
One of the Workshops at the ISSS 2010 Conference in Waterloo/Canada will discuss ICT support for the training of
First Responders (fire brigades, ambulance personnel, police, etc.) with respect
to their interventions in the case of incidents. Strong emphasis is put on systemic approaches and
the utilisation of modern ICT, especially in the area of modelling and simulation.
For further details click here
4th Global Conference on Power Control Optimization
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO'2010)
ISBN 978-983-44483
http://www.pcoglobal.com
2-4 December 2010, Kucing Borneo Sarawak, Malaysia
Damai Puri Resort, Kucing, Sarawak
http://www.damaipuriresort-kuching.com
It is our great pleasure to announce the Fourth Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization PCO 2010, which will be held in Damai Puri Resort, Kucing, Sarawak, Malaysia from 2 - 4 December 2010.
Scope of the conference is contemporary and original research and educational development in the area of electrical power engineering, control systems and methods of optimization.
Prospective authors from universities or institutes and industries are invited to submit the full paper by email before the deadline. All papers will be peer reviewed by independent specialists.
Conference proceeding will be published online by AIP. Selected papers will be published in Elsevier, Springer, Inderscience, Professional Engineering, and other Journals.
Proposal for holding special sessions, tutorial, exhibition and workshop are invited from prospective authors, industrial bodies and academicians should be addressed to the conference secretariat.
The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following topics:
Hybrid renewable energy and energy saving
Power systems, protection and reliability
Controllers, drives and machine design
Smart system and dynamic robust system
Mechatronics and nano physics
NEMS and MEMS
Simulators and software engineering
Soft computing and computational intelligent
Fuzzy and hybrid optimization
Bioinformatics and body sensors
Inventory, queuing and game theory
Control Systems
FEM
Power Electronics
Robotics and Sensors
Artificial immune systems & neural network
Evolutionary algorithms
Ant colony, genetic and swarm optimization
probabilistic and possibilistic optimization
Production design and rough set
Line, pattern searches and decision making
Micro transportation and civil structure
Cams & gear design and optimum valves
Network communication and wireless sensor
Scheduling and assignment problems
Graph theory and supply chain management
Simulation and Modeling
Operational Research
Intelligent Systems & Applications
Energy, Hydrogen energy, Bio-energy and Fuel
Heat transfer & Biomass
Fusion technology
Automatic computing, Biological computing
Coordinative intelligence, Granular computing
Humanized intelligence,Cloud computing
Hybrid artificial & Natural intelligence and computing
Computer Science & Computer Engineering
Climate & energy systems, wind energy, fuel cells & Hydrogen, Solar energy, Nuclear technologies
Steering Committee
Prof. Dr. Felix Chernousko, Russia
Prof. Dr. Andrew Kusiak, USA
Dr. Kenneth Adan, Malaysia
Dr. Rami Hikmat, Jordan
Dr. Sermsak Uatrongjit, Thailand
Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Turkey
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. Milun Babic (Serbia)
Prof. Dr. Tsu Tian Lee (Taiwan)
Prof. Dr. Mingcong Deng (Japan)
Prof. Dr. T. S. Zhao (Hong Kong)
Prof. Dr. Yew Soon Wong(Singapore))
Prof. Dr. Alan Oxley (Malaysia)
Prof. Dr. M. Ahmad Al-Nimr (Jordan)
Prof. Dr. Robert Grubbstrom (Sweden)
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Fedorov (Russia)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Borutzky (Germany)
Prof. Dr. Vitezslav Benda (Czech Republic)
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Höflinger (Austria)
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Nader Barsoum, Malaysia (Chairman)
Dr. Pandian Vasant, Malaysia
Dr. Rabi W Yousif, Malaysia
Dr. Jeffrey Webb, Malaysia
International Program Committee
Please refer to http://www.pcoglobal.com
Submission of Full Papers:01/08/2010
Notification with Peer Review: 01/09/2010
Camera-ready Paper: 15/10/2010
Registration with Full Payment: 15/10/2010
All correspondence should be addressed to the conference secretariat:
Tel: 605 3711 416, 6085 44 3821
Email: pcoglobal@gmail.com
Website:http://www.pcoglobal.com
Sincerely yours,
PCO'2010 Conference Secretary General
PCO Global
2010-03-28: HELLENIC society (HSSS): New activities
HELLENIC SOCIETY FOR SYSTEMIC STUDIES (HSSS)
Full Member of IFSR
* 6th. HSSS National & International Conference
23 - 26 June, 2010
email: hsss06@soc.aegean.gr
University of the Aegean,
School of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology,
Lesvos Island, Greece.
“Systemic Approaches in Social Structures”
http://www.hsss.gr/hsss06 . Abstracts up to 23rd of April 2010.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Aleco Christakis, Institute for 21st Century Agora, USA.
Professor Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, National Faculty of Public Administration, Greece.
Professor Athanasios Karafillidis, Institute of Sociology, University of Aachen, Germany.
Professor Raghuram G. Rajan, Vasavi College of Engineering, Ibrahimbagh, Hyderabad, India.
Professor Zeljko Sevic, Glaskow Caledonian University, U.K.
* HSSS Special Issues for IJASS Journal on
"Systems Thinking in Inter-Organizational Collaboration"
"Applied Project Management Systems"
http://www.inderscience.com/ijass
http://www.inderscience.com/callPapers.php
* HSSS Professional Program on "Professional Systemics"
2nd Cycle of CSAP Program, October 2010 to March 2012
Applications : 01-04-2010 to 31-05-2010
http://www.hsss.gr/csap/
2010-03-09 FlS 2010: ... New Science of Information Beijing
Call for Participation/Contributions
Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science
FlS 2010: Towards a New Science of Information
Beijing: 20-23 August, 2010
Conference website: www.fis2010.cn (http://fis2010.sisi2006.cn/fis2010/index.aspx)
Continuing the series of FIS Conferences (Madrid 1994, Vienna 1996, Paris 2005) a new venue will be held in Beijing 2010. In our times, an increasing number of disciplines are dealing with information in very different ways: from information society and information technology to communication studies (and related subjects like codes, meaning, knowledge, and intelligence), as well as quantum information, bioinformation, knowledge economy, network science, computer science and Internet, to name but a few. At the same time, an increasing number of scientists in the East and the West have been engaged with the foundational problems underlying this development, to such an extent that the integration of disciplines revolving around information seems an idea whose time has come. A new science of information can be envisaged that explores the possibilities of establishing a common ground around the information concept, of constructing a new scientific perspective that connects the different information-related disciplines and provides a new framework for transdisciplinary research.
Deadline of Paper Submission: May 20, 2010
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2010
Camera-Ready Paper: July 10, 2010
Paper Collection Published: August 20, 2010
2010-02-25 Cybernetics:Art, Design, Mathematics(Jul 29- Aug 2)
“Cybernetics:Art, Design, Mathematics—
A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation”
to be held in Troy, New York,
29 July to 2 August 2010.
We believe that this conference will be an exciting and vibrant event that will help define ways forward in all 4 fields and will encourage enrichment of all 4 through learning from and with each other. Our conference has as its primary aim to develop what we might think of as next questions rather than report on answers to last questions, through discussion in groups and in plenary sessions. It is a conference where the main business will be to confer, not to report.
Evenings have been left free as time for performance, exhibition and ideas that appear during the conference itself.
We are now accepting expressions of interest in attending the conference. Please visit http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/?page_id=93 to start making your statement of interest.
We welcome people from all backgrounds.
For those who wish or need to present papers, there we will be accepting abstracts for refereeing in April. Abstracts are submitted as later additions to your statement of interest.
There is a number of “surrounding” events which can be found on the web site. Troy is beautifully situated as a base from which to make either a holiday or a study tour.
“Cybernetics:Art, Design, Mathematics—A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation” is a joint project of the American Society for Cybernetics, and two constitutents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute—The School of Architecture and The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.
2010-02-16 HSSS: 6th. National & International Conference
HELLENIC SOCIETY FOR SYSTEMIC STUDIES (HSSS)
6th. National & International Conference
23 - 26 June, 2010
email: hsss06@soc.aegean.gr
University of the Aegean,
School of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology,
Lesvos Island, Greece.
“Systemic Approaches in Social Structures”
http://www.hsss.gr/hsss06
2010-02-09 :OR52 (OR Society) Egham, UK, 7-9 Sept 2010
OR52, the OR Society’s 52nd annual conference, will be held at
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK,
from 7-9 September 2010
Papers are invited on any aspect of operational research
Titles and abstracts may now be submitted via the OR52 pages on the Society’s website, www.theorsociety.com
All papers will be assigned to an appropriate stream. More than 25 streams have been put in place – an up-todate
list, together with contact details for stream organisers, can be found on the website. Prospective authors
are very welcome to discuss proposals for papers with stream organisers in advance of submission.
Suggestions for additional streams would also be gratefully received: please contact the OR52 Programme Coordinator.
Deadlines
26 March 2010 As many papers as possible should be submitted by this date.
1 May 2010 Delegate registration and booking opens.
Registration at a reduced fee available until end of June.
30 June 2010 Final deadline for submission of titles and abstracts.
Reduced-rate registration ends.
16 July 2010 Final deadline for registration by presenter if the paper is to be scheduled.
2010-01-28: Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics (Jul30-)
Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics — A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation (C:ADM2010)
(July 30 - August 2, 2010, Troy, NY, USA)
organized by the American Society for Cybernetics.
The American Society for Cybernetics (with its partners at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) is proud to announce a radical conference to take place in upper New York State in the summer of 2010. This conference brings together 4 fields—Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics. The conference is intended as a place for conferring and conversing, from which next steps will be taken rather than last steps reported. The main conference has 3 surrounding events. Upper New York State is in one of the most beautiful parts of the USA, and is an ideal base for a holiday.
For details see: Conference site
2010-01-04 Charles Francois on Ethics and Problemology
see (click for details)
2009-10-29 Russell Ackoff passed away.
Russel Ackoff (1919 - 2009) was one of father of systems thinking, especially with respect to management. (For several obituaries click here)
2009-12-30 Biographies of 30 system thinkers published
I'm delighted to announce that our book "Systems Thinkers", by Magnus Ramage and Karen Shipp of The Open University (UK), has recently been published by Springer.
The book (the product of more than seven years of research) presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers. It discusses each thinker’s key contributions, the way this contribution was expressed in practice and the relationship between their life and ideas. This discussion is supported by an extract from the thinker’s own writing, to give a flavour of their work and to give readers a sense of which thinkers are most relevant to their own interests.
Systems thinking is necessarily interdisciplinary, so that the thinkers selected come from a wide range of areas – biology, management, physiology, anthropology, chemistry, public policy, sociology and environmental studies among others. Some are core innovators in systems ideas; some have been primarily practitioners who also advanced and popularised systems ideas; others are well-known figures who drew heavily upon systems thinking although it was not their primary discipline. A significant aim of the book is to broaden and deepen the reader’s interest in systems writers, providing an appetising ‘taster’ for each of the 30 thinkers, so that the reader is encouraged to go on to study the published works of the thinkers themselves.
The thirty thinkers covered in the book are: Gregory Bateson, Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, W. Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Geoffrey Vickers, Howard Odum, Jay Forrester, Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, C. West Churchman, Russell Ackoff, Peter Checkland, Werner Ulrich, Michael Jackson, Heinz von Foerster, Stafford Beer, Humberto Maturana, Niklas Luhmann, Paul Watzlawick, Ilya Prigogine, Stuart Kauffman, James Lovelock, Kurt Lewin, Eric Trist, Chris Argyris, Donald Schön, Mary Catherine Bateson.
List price of the book (paperback) is GBP 39.99 / EUR 69.95 / USD 89.95, though Amazon UK have it for less (GBP 33.99 at time of writing). ISBN 978-1-84882-524-6, 316 pp.
See it on Google Books: http://bit.ly/lJnNx, or at the publisher's website: http://bit.ly/JWu9m.
Magnus Ramage
2009-12-30 Ranulph Glanville's 1975 PhD Thesis available
I am glad to announce that my PhD thesis officially entitled "A Cybernetic Development of Theories of Epistemology and Observation, with reference to Space and Time, as seen in Architecture" (also known as "The Object of Objects, the Point of Points, —or Something about Things") has now, 35 years later, been made available by the British Library as key PhD Thesis selected for scanning and free access.
This text is searchable, although the searchability is not all that good. If you need better search facilities, contact me directly.
The thesis is seen as an important text in second order cbernetics. The thesis deals with a question that is central to second order cybernetics. If the observer is always present, and if each observer is different, what sort of structure would support this presence and this difference, while allowing us to believe that we observe "the same thing". In the thesis I propose a formulation and a structure, based on self-observation, which generates a logic of observational connection, and means of communication, —representation and conversation.
It is presented in a terse, elegiac, aphoristic, poetic form, with a parallel text of footnotes. It is illustrated with studies of how we understand the city, 6 short stories and a piece of music: and is summarised in 16 limerick poems.
You can access the thesis as follows: go to the url http://ethos.bl.uk You will have to sign in.
then ask for uk.bl.ethos.456747 Note that the author is Glanville, R.
(If you ask for Glanville, Ranulph, you will find my second PhD thesis, which is concerned with spatial conception in architecture, and is a saga of failure and re- formulation leading to the understanding of the essential holism of perception. You will have to pay for that one. )
2009-08-10 Pentagram Research Centre organises ICSCI-2010
Pentagram Research Centre (P) Ltd (Hyderabad – 500 028, Andhra Pradesh, India)
organizes its yearly international conference ICSCI-2010 (Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics) on January 27 - 30, 2010,
for details contact: www.icsci.net, tel: +91-40-23533108; E-mail: icscimail@yahoo.com
2009-07-09 G.A. Swanson passed away
Everybody new "G.A" (Gale Alden) Swanson and it is hard to believe that he is not any more amongst us!
For more details see the Obituary
2009-06-30: EMCSR 2010 - Vienna April 6-9, 2010
The 20th European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR 2010) will take place at the University of Vienna on
April 6 - 9, 2010.
It is organised by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies
in cooperation with the International Federation for Systems Research
Further details, sessions and Call-for-Papers see
http://www.osgk.ac.at/emcsr/
2009-03-24 The United Kingdom OR51 Annual Conf. Sept 8-10, 2009
The United Kingdom
OR51 Annual Conference
As the organiser of the Systems Thinking stream at the OR51 conference, I would like to invite your participation in this year's conferenceto be held at the University of Warwick, Warwick, UK, September 8-10, 2009. The conference will draw a wide range of research and practice in the field of Operational Research and we invite your contribution to the Systems Thinking stream, For details and deadlines see:
http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/(rnjaeqrae3uyls455sewruj2)/orcontent.aspx?inc=or51_Information_presenters.htm
The main conference website can be found at:
http://www.orsoc.org.uk/orshop/(rnjaeqrae3uyls455sewruj2)/orcontent.aspx?inc=or51_main.htm
Jennifer Wilby
Stream Organiser, Systems Thinking
j.wilby@hull.ac.uk
Frances O'Brien and Ruth Davies are delighted to be organising OR51 from September 8th to 10th, 2009. Please reserve these dates in your diary or on-line calendar now. OR51 will have a programme, full of interest, appealing to a wide range of individuals. It is located at the University Warwick, a dynamic university with a large well-known OR group. We anticipate an extensive and interesting scientific programme with contributions from both academics and practitioners. We are planning that the plenaries and some keynotes should address contemporary concerns such as climate change and the financial crisis. The plenaries, streams, coffee and exhibitions will be co-located, with all but two rooms under one roof and all within easy access.
We expect that the social programme will include a drinks reception, the ever-popular bar quiz and external visits. The University is situated on the outskirts of Coventry, close to the Warwickshire countryside and only one hour and ten minutes from London by train. Local sites of interest include Coventry cathedral and the guildhall, Kenilworth castle, the Heritage motor museum, the National motorcycle museum, Warwick castle and Shakespeare's birthplace.
Whilst the OR51 conference fees have not yet been set and will be live for booking purposes at the end of May 2009 we hope to keep the fees similar to 2008 which were: Whole conference registration fees (early booking rate) started at £340 + VAT for ORS members whilst accommodation fees were £60 + VAT per night. ORS student registration cost £120 + VAT.
Ruth Davies, University of Warwick, ruth.davies@wbs.ac.uk
Frances O'Brien, University of Warwick, Frances.O'Brien@wbs.ac.uk