World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

Citation

(2002), "World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)", Kybernetes, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2002.06731aab.002

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

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   WOSC Sponsored Congresses and Conferences

   WOSC was represented at numerous congresses and conferences during the last year. The reports from the major events have been published in this section. Both our President Professor Stafford Beer and Director-General Professor Robert Vallée have represented the organization at many different venues worldwide. We would wish to express our gratitude to them for the time and effort that they have expended on behalf of the Federation in their honorary roles.

   The organisation also appreciates the work of the Directors who have carried out their individual duties to the benefit of the organisation, They too have represented WOSC at events worldwide, presenting papers and addressing meetings and many of these have been included in Kybernetes which is the official journal of WOSC; and whose Editor-in-Chief is also Director of WOSC's Norbert Wiener Institute of Systems and Cybernetics.

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   WOSC President addresses Systemic Management Conference

   It was reported in Kybernetes Vol. 30 Nos 9/10, 2001 that Professor Stafford Beer, the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetes President gave the keynote address to the First International Conference on Systemic Management in Vienna, Austria on the ist May 2001. He considered vital aspects of viability with reference to the Viable System Model (VSM).

   This address was to have been published in the 30th Birthday Issue of this journal but due to copyright difficulties it could not be included as promised. It has, however, been published by the conference organisers in the proceedings of the event.

   For compleness and for the information of our readers the abstract of the address is given here:

   Vital Aspects of ViabilityThe Viable System Model (VSM) in Management.Stafford BeerKeywordsCybernetics, Systemic management, Viable systems, ModelsAbstractBased on his keynote address to the First International Conference on Systemic Management, held in Vienna, Austria, 1st May 2001, discusses viable systems and his own Viable System Model (VSM) in management. Introduces the 'scene' and considers the principlesof Recursivity, Adaptive Homeostatis, Redundancy of Potential Command and Team Syntegrity, presenting discussions of both past and present VSM projects with examples of models formulated worldwide.

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   WOSC Congress – March 24–26, 2002, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

   Proceedings of the 12th International WOSC Congress and the4th IIGSS Workshop

   Details of the congress are included in the Special issue to be published later this year.

   Congress Symposium on Robotics ... Past and Future

   Details of this symposium are also included in the Special issue.

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   WOSC Noticeboard

   Information for publicationin Kybernetes, and in particular for inclusion in this section should be sent to the Editorial Team (see Inside journal cover for details).

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   WOSC Web site

   The WOSC Webmaster is Dr. A. M. Andrew who is also the Internet Editor of this journal. The WOSC Website is: http://www.cybsoc.org/wosc