Cybernetics and public administration

Citation

(2006), "Cybernetics and public administration", Kybernetes, Vol. 35 No. 1/2. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2006.06735aaa.001

Cybernetics and public administration

Cybernetics and public administration

Guest Editors: Angela Espinosa and Allenna Leonard

For some time, it has been the aim of the Editorial Advisory Board and the Editorial staff of this Journal to extend its coverage to include many more of the multidisciplinary areas that now attract; a much wider interest, in the cybernetics and systems communities. The opportunity to include one such area came during the UK Cybernetics Society, Annual Conference – CybCon 2004, when the theme was cybernetics and public administration. The interest and enthusiasm shown at this event and the range of papers presented made it imperative that we should consider publishing a special issue on the subject.

As a result Dr Angela Espinosa and Dr Allenna Leonard were invited to be its Guest Editors. We are extremely grateful to them for their meticulous compilation of this double issue after extensive discussions with the invited authors.

As is our usual practice our regular journal sections are also included. In particular, we have included in our conference reports a review of the conference that inspired this special issue.

This Volume 35, with Issues 1-10, will also contain other special issues and features including the publication of selected papers from the 13th World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics Congress held at Maribor, Slovenia (July 2005). In addition, a Festschrift is being prepared to honour a leading sociocybernetician and this will be published as a special double issue in this volume.

Brian H. RudallEditor-in-Chief