WOSC 18th 2021 Congress publications

All accepted abstracts of registered authors were published in the electronic WOSC2021 Congress book of abstracts.

Selected publications will be invited to submit short chapters for the book: World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics 18. Congress-WOSC2021 Systems approach and cybernetics; engaging for the future of mankind published by Springer Nature.
 

The WOSC 2021 Keynote recordings can be found in the WOSC YouTube Chanel

After the congress participants can submit papers for special issues of a number of scientific journals. A list of journals under consideration may be found below.

  Journal                                                            Indexing  Editors                

CyberSystemic landscape

History
Following list illustrates the origin and updates from the map.Originated in 1996 by Dr. Eric Schwarz, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Extended in 1998, including items from the “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant (1933).
Elaborated in 2000-2001 from many sources for the International Institute for General Systems Studies.
Extended in 2016 by Benjamin Hadorn, Fribourg, Switzerland.

shared from https://uranos.ch/images/2019/09/23/systemic_evolution.jpg

WOSC 2020 on-line event

WOSC, in cooperation with the Russian Academy of Sciences will run an online event of conversations about the already proposed manifesto for WOSC 2020, as well as of its planned themes and sections. The conversations should provide to all of us an option to connect with our section co-coordinators and also among ourselves. In particular, we think that the COVID 19 pandemic should give us new perspectives about Crisis and post-crisis viability and governance.​

The on-line event live streaming will take place on the 16th and 17th of September on https://www.wosc2020.org/, nevertheless several videos, which are part of the on-line event are being uploaded throughout September. You are most welcome to have  look and provide valuable comments to the videos in Youtube. We do expect for the authors to reply on a short notice.

XI. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL TRANSDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM “REFLEXIVE PROCESSES AND CONTROL”

RPC’2017

XI. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL

TRANSDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM

“REFLEXIVE PROCESSES AND CONTROL”

Moscow, October 16-17, 2017, Institute of Philosophy, RAS

Institute of philosophy of RAS, Institute of psychology of  RAS, Trapeznikov Institute of control sciences of RAS, Keldysch  Institute of applied mathematics of RAS; Institute of economic strategy of the Social Sciences Division of RAS invite You to take part in the XI International symposium “Reflexive processes and control” which will be held in Moscow on October 16-17, 2017.

AGENDA

Scientific Fundamental — “Current problems of reflexive research in the context of post-non-classical scientific rationality and a transdisciplinary approach”.

Scientific and Applied — “Current problems of reflexive research and development in the context of applied fields of knowledge”.

Practical — “Introducing reflexive technologies into Russian and International development process, current experience and future prospects”

KEY TOPICS

  1. Cybernetics and control — philosophical and methodological framework of development (reflexive processes and technologies roles and possible application).
  2. Self-developing reflexive-active environments (harmony of subjects of development, convergence natural and artificial).
  3. Reflexive aspects of complexity problems (reflexive complexity and reflexive mechanisms of regulation of complexity).
  4. From situational centers to development centers (socio-humanitarian technologies to ensure strategic planning and project management).
  5. Organisation of self-developing innovative environments (experience, current status and future prospects).
  6. Subjects of development — assembly and analytics (from market egoism to harmony of development).
  7. Role of reflexive technologies in information warfare (from confrontation to strategic partnership).

Symposium will be held in the form of Round Table workshops on the above-mentioned key topics (correction is possible).

PARTICIPANTS

Experts from Russia and foreign countries are welcome to take part in the symposium.

All information will be updated on a regular basis on the internet:

http://www.reflexion.ru/EConf.html

Languages of the symposium are Russian and English.

ABSTRACT REQUIREMENTS

 Please send Your written abstracts (up to 4 pages) to dzhurenkoff@mail.ru (Mr. Denis Zhurenkov).  All abstracts must correspond to the main thematic areas of the symposium and have brief information about the participant (name, organization, position, academic degree, E-mail).

Abstract submission guidelines are here: http://www.reflexion.ru/EConf.html

All abstracts must pass preliminary examination to be published among the symposium’s collected works. Collected works publication will be out before the symposium starts.

 Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2017

Organisational fee is not required

Sponsorship and support is appreciated.

 

FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AND PROPOSALS

E-mail: Lepsky@tm-net.ru

Dr. Vladimir Lepskiy

Chairman of the Organising Committee

Robert Vallée has passed away

It is with great sadness that I communicate the passing of Professor Robert Vallée on January the 1st 2017. He was 95 years old.

He was WOSC´s President from 2003, became a WOSC honorary member in 1979 and received the WOSC´s Norbert Wiener Memorial Gold Medal in 1990.

In the process of organising WOSC 2017 in Rome later this January I had already communicated to him our intention to dedicate  it in his honour.  His last communication to me with reference to WOSC 2017 was on the 5th of September, 2016:

“The choice of Roma, la citta eterna, for this congress is very satisfactory for the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics. Moreover, Professor Minati is the President of Union Européenne de Systémique and a recent biography of Norbert Wiener has been translated into Italian.  I would like to say a few words about the future of cybernetics and systems. Much has been said about “second order cybernetics”, but it is more or less included in the “first order cybernetics” which deals with observation, decision, and action. I developed this theme under the name of “epistemo-praxiology (1975). One of the results I obtained is the “inverse transfer of structures” from the inner part of the observing system to the appearance the universe observed. I think that cybernetics and systems may progress in the direction of a better understanding of the position of man in the universe as both observer and actor.”

I will miss the wisdom of his short and profound statements.

Professor Raul Espejo

Director General

WOSC 2017 abstract submission deadline extension

WOSC2017 logo

http://wosc2017rome.asvsa.org

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Thanks to all of you who have submitted an abstract to the WOSC 17th Congress. For those who were not able to hit the August 30th deadline, we have extended it to September 30th. In the meantime, the acceptance process will be in progress and we would appreciate receiving your abstracts as early as possible.

Themes and tracks

Theme1: People, technology and governance for sustainability

  1. Human aspects of managing systems
  2. Smartness and sustainability
  3. Smart technologies and big data
  4. The Brain of the future
  5. Governance in the Anthropocene: cybersystemic possibilities

Theme 2: Democracy, interactions and organisation

  1. Community self-organization
  2. Democracy and transparency
  3. Interactions revolution: how to harmonise interactions within and between complex adaptive systems
  4. Law, commons, social dynamics
  5. Knowledge to manage the knowledge society: non explicit, non invasive and non directive management
  6. The role of emergence within organizations
  7. The role of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Theme 3: Cyber-systemic thinking, modelling and epistemology

  1. How can systems thinking help to bring solutions to humankind problems in the 21st century?
  2. Think outside the box with Systems Dynamics
  3. Quantum Modelling
  4. Reflexivity, Second order science, and Context

Submitting an abstract:

Extended abstracts, presented at the congress will be published in the “WOSC 2017 Book of Abstracts”.

In order to submit an extended abstract, authors need to consider Author Guidelines

Refereed Publication of Congress papers

Authors with an accepted abstract will be invited to submit a full research paper and attend the Congress. Papers, presented at the Congress, will be considered for the publication in one of the following journals:

Further leading journals are under consideration for Special Issues. Please, follow updates on the website.

Instructions for full paper submission will be available in Instructions for Full Paper Submissions in the Submission option of the website.

Summary of Congress Schedule

  • 30 SEPTEMBER 2016: EXTENDED ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION DEADLINE
  • 30 OCTOBER 2016: NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
  • 15 NOVEMBER 2016: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE
  • 15 NOVEMBER 2016: REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR ACCEPTED AUTHORS
  • 20 DECEMBER 2016: TENTATIVE CONGRESS PROGRAM
  • 10 JANUARY 2017: FULL PAPERS SUBMISSION
  • 15 JANUARY 2017: OFFICIAL CONGRESS PROGRAM
  • 25-27 JANUARY 2017: CONGRESS

Please register on http://wosc2017rome.asvsa.org/

Looking forward to seeing you in Rome,

Professor Raul Espejo
Scientific Director WOSC 2017
Director General of the WOSC
http://www.wosc.co

 

Professor Sergio Barile
Chair WOSC 2017
Sapienza, University of Rome
www.uniroma1.it

New Board Member: Prof Clas-Otto Wene

We welcome Professor Clas-Otto Wene, from Sweden, to WOSC’s Board.

Clas-Otto Wene is Professor Emeritus at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, where he held the chair of Energy Systems Technology from 1981 until 2000. He has worked 1997-2003 at the International Energy Agency in Paris with issues related to energy technology learning and technology markets. In two periods, 1986-1996 and 2006-2014, he was appointed by the Swedish Government to the National Council for Nuclear Waste. Dr. Wene is also Dozent in Physics at Lund University where he obtained his PhD in nuclear physics in 1974. He received the Lindbohm Award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Science in 1981.

Wene has participated in and led numerous projects involving development and application of energy system models to support decisions in local, regional and national energy systems. . During his stay att IEA he authored Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy, co-authored Creating Markets for Energy Technologies, and initiated EXCETP, an international network on Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy. He has also been engaged in front-running projects to link energy technology models to energy-economic models (hardlinking Markal-Macro, softlinking IIASA Message III and ETA-MACRO).

Some recent publications

C.-O. Wene (2015) ,”A cybernetic view on learning curves and energy policy”, Kybernetes, Vol.44 Iss 6/7 pp. 852 – 865.

C.-O. Wene (2015) “Future energy system development depends on past learning opportunities”, WIREs Energy Environ,. doi: 10.1002/wene.172.

C.-O. Wene. (2013), “Learning curves tracing the optimal path for technology learning systems”, Proceedings of the 13th IAEE European Conference, Düsseldorf, 18-21 August,

C.-O. Wene. (2007), “Technology learning systems as non-trivial machines”, Kybernetes, Vol. 36, No.3/4, pp. 348-363.

K.Andersson, B.-M. Drottz-Sjöberg, R. Espejo, P.A. Fleming and C.-O. Wene (2006), ”Models of Transparency and Accountability in the Biotech Age”, Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 45-56..