World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

Citation

(2005), "World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)", Kybernetes, Vol. 34 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2005.06734iab.002

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

Announcements and news in brief.

1. 1.

   The contributions presented at the WOSC 13th International Congress of Systems and Cybernetics held at Maribor, Slovenia (6-10 July 2005) which merited the Kybernetes Research Award and the “Highly Commended” awards will (subject to copyright) be published in Volume 335 Nos 1/10, 2006. Other selected papers presented at the Congress may also be included. In all cases the authors will have the opportunity of updating their contributions in line with the discussions and other presentation held at the event. Details will be announced in later issues.

2. 2.

   Professor Robert Vallee, the President of WOSC participated in the Eighteenth International Conference on Systems Engineering (ICSEng05). The conference was held in Las Vegas, USA in August 2005. It is hoped that a conference report will be published in Vol. 35.

3. 3.

   Dr Alex M. Andrew, the Director-General of WOSC is both the organisation's and Kybernetes representative at the UK Cybernetics Society.

4. 4.

   Professor B.H. Rudall (WOSC Vice-President) is in contact with members of the WOSC Norbert Wiener Institute to organise the Special Issues of WOSC's official journal Kybernetes for 2006-2007. Two special double issues: “Cybernetics and Public Administration” and “Sociocybernetics” have been confirmed and are in preparation.

WOSC members and other readers of the journal are invited to suggest new topics and authors who may wish to be involved.