Citation
Lin, Y. (2002), "Our Heartfelt Appreciation", Kybernetes, Vol. 31 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2002.06731iaa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
Our Heartfelt Appreciation
Our Heartfelt Appreciation
The 12th International World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) Congress and the 4th International Institute for General Systems Studies (IIGSS) Workshop, 24-26 March, 2002, co-chaired by Yi Lin (USA) and Robert Valleé (France), had been recorded in the scientific history as an important event with a great many new theories and discoveries presented. The event, held in Sheraton Station Square Hotel, Pittsburgh, and sponsored by the United Nations and the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, attracted over 150 scholars from 32 nations and regions around the globe, including, Belams, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Czeck Republic, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Mongolia, People’s Republic of China, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela.
Over 40 classical scientific areas were represented at the conference. These scientific areas include aerospace engineering, artificial intelligence, atmospheric physics, automation, biological science, business administration, communication, computer science, control and systems engineering, cybernetics, digital engineering, dynamics, earth science, economics, education, electric and computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronic physics, finance, geographical science, health and epidemiology, industrial design, industrial engineering, informatics, information systems, law, law and policies of organizations, management, mathematics (pure and applied), mechanical engineering, mechanics, medical technology, medicine, military science, planetary science, physiology, political science, public administration, regional economic planning, sociology, statistics (mathematical and applied), systems science and theoretical physics.
Participants of the joint event consisted mainly of scholars from academia, administrations of higher education and research institutions. Also, some government officers, bankers, scientific practitioners in industry participated in the three-day event.
Thanks go to Professor Brian Rudall, the editor-in-chief of “Kybernetes: The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics”, and the entire editorial board of the journal, for inviting us to publish selected papers of the joint Conference as two double issues of this internationally prestigious publication. It is our hope that with these special issues in print, we can help to raise the more than half century old systems movement to a higher level by introducing the bold challenges facing the traditional science and our new theories and methodologies to overcome some of the weaknesses existing in the traditional science.
Yi Lin Guest Editor President and Director International Institute for General Systems Studies 23 Kings Lane, Grove City PA 16127, USA E-mail: jeffrey:forrest@sru.edu