Citation
Vallée, P.R. (2005), "Conference Affairs", Kybernetes, Vol. 34 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2005.06734eab.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Conference Affairs
15th International Conference on Systems Science, Held in Wroclaw, Poland – 7-10 September 2004
This conference was organised by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw University of Technology. Its scientific co-sponsors were: The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and the Committee of Automation and Robotics Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sessions
The conference sessions were organized with chairmen appointed to cover the following areas;
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Plenary;
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Systems Theory;
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Identification;
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Control Theory;
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Uncertain Systems – Decision Systems;
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Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Systems;
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Systems and Control Engineering;
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Operation and Manufacturing Systems;
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Information Systems;
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Technical Applications;
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Non-technical Applications.
Details of the individual papers presented can be obtained from the organisers. Selected papers will be published in Systems Science (a journal produced in English and published in Poland) or in Kybernetes (WOSC's official journal).
The President of WOSC, Professor Robert Vallée represented the organisation at the congress.
At the opening ceremony of the International Congress Professor Vallée gave the following welcoming address:
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Mr Chairman of the congress, Mr Chairman of the organizing committee, dear colleaguesIt is a great honour and pleasure for me to welcome, at this opening ceremony, the participants to the 15th International Congress on Systems Science organized by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering of Wroclaw University of Technology, directed by Professor Zdzislaw Bubnicki, President of the Polish Committee of Automation of Polish Academy of Sciences.
I wish a great success to the congress on behalf of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, in short WOSC, also known as Organisation Mondiale de Systémique et de Cybernétique, co-sponsor of this conference with the committee of Automation and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The Links between WOSC and the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering have already been started, particularly with the presentation to Professor Bubnicki of an Honorary Fellowship in 2001 at the occasion of the WOSC congress in Pittsburgh. Moreover Kybernetes, the official journal of WOSC, will be allowed to publish, as well as “Systems Science”, some communications to this congress.
In the name of Professor J. Rose founder, Dr Alex Andrew, Director-General, Professor Brain Rudall Vice-President of WOSC and myself, I renew my wishes. Remembering the contributions of Poland to systems science in fields such as praxiology, economics, cybernetics, automation and the great diversity of nations represented at this congress I am sure that this manifestation, 15th of a long list of conferences to which I participated many times, will be as successful as usual.
Professor Robert ValléePresident of WOSC