IFSR - International Federation for Systems Research

W. Ross Ashby (b. 1903, London, d. 1972) was a psychiatrist and one of the founding fathers of cybernetics. He developed the homeostat, the law of requisite variety, the principle of self-organization, and law of regulating models. He wrote Design for a Brain (1952) and an Introduction to Cybernetics (1956).

The commemorative lecture, sponsored by the International Federation for Systems Research (IFSR), is held every second year on the occasion of the EMCSR-Conference in Vienna.

• 2010: Yoshiteru Nakamori : Models and Systems for Knowledge Integration and Creation
• 2008: Yoshiteru Nakamori : Models and Systems for Knowledge Integration and Creation
• 2006: Matjaz Mulej: Systems theory – a worldview and/or a methodology