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
- Human aspects of managing systems
- Smartness and sustainability
- Smart technologies and big data
- The Brain of the future
- Governance in the Anthropocene: cybersystemic possibilities
Theme 2: Democracy, interactions and organisation
- Community self-organization
- Democracy and transparency
- Interactions revolution: how to harmonise interactions within and between complex adaptive systems
- Law, commons, social dynamics
- Knowledge to manage the knowledge society: non explicit, non invasive and non directive management
- The role of emergence within organizations
- The role of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Theme 3: Cyber-systemic thinking, modelling and epistemology
- How can systems thinking help to bring solutions to humankind problems in the 21st century?
- Think outside the box with Systems Dynamics
- Quantum Modelling
- 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:
- Kybernetes,
- International Journal of Systems and Society,
- Futures,
- International Journal of Markets and Business Systems
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