Citation
(2007), "Conference notes", Kybernetes, Vol. 36 No. 5/6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2007.06736eab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Conference notes
American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)
The following ASC meetings were organised for 2007:
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Urbana Illinois Meeting of the ASC Constructivism, Design, Cybernetics: Radical Social Order, 2nd Order (29 March-1 April 2007 at Urbana, Illinois, USA). This Working Conference was organised for creating a three-way bridge spanning the thought and practise of:
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Radical constructivism – that the reality we describe and perceive arises from our manner of living as perceivers & describers.
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Social, archictectural and artistic design – deliberate and improvised actions and structures that define and perturb what we call the social and aesthetic.
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Second-order cybernetics – an interdisciplinary weave of intellectual pathways connecting feedback, circular causality, self-organization, self-reference, cybernetics of cybernetics, taking ourselves into account.
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ASC participation with the ISSS meeting in Tokyo, Japan, (5-7 August). Details of the conference are given at: www.isss.org/conferences/tokyo2007/
The ASC track at the meeting is described as:
2.12 Cybernetics (organized by the American Society for Cybernetics)
TST Chair: Louis H. Kauffman, E-mail: kauffman@uic.edu
This track is devoted to cybernetics, particularly to fundamentals of cybernetics and to cybernetic epistemology and second-order cybernetics in the sense of Margaret Mead and Heinz von Foerster.
We welcome papers and workshop proposals from non-ASC members as well as ASC members. The workshops will be arranged during the main conference period, and maximum time allowed for a workshop is one-and-half hours. The workshop proposals should be directly sent to Professor Kauffman, The American Society for Cybernetics will also organize tutorials or workshops prior to the conference in the time period Sunday, 5 August 2007: 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. It will be opened to all ISSS participants.
ASC participation in the Heinz-von Foerster Conference Vienna, Austria (November 2007).
ASC members have been invited to contact Karl Mueller e-mail: mueller@wisdom.at
Further details of this Conference will be published in Kybernetes in coming issues.
Complex control systems and quality management – CCSQM 2007
This conference was organised by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of the Russian Federation-Russian Academy of Sciences and a group of technical universities of Central Russia:
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Lipetsk State Technical University.
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Voronez State Technical University.
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Voronez State Architectural University.
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Stary Oskol Technological Institute.
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Institute of Control Sciences.
Held in Stary Oskol (12-14 March) The conference was arranged to cover the following topics:
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Systems theory.
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System identification.
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Information systems.
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Technical and business applications.
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Logistics and scheduling.
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Modelling and simulation.
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Software engineering.
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Control theory.
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Systems and control engineering.
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Operation and manufacturing systems.
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Quality management.
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Industrial control systems.
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Uncertain systems.
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Fuzzy systems and models.
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Decision support systems.
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Knowledge engineering and intelligent systems.
Details of the proceedings can be obtained from L.A. Kuznetsov, e-mail: lgtu.asu. conf@mail.ru. A review of the conference is to be published in coming issues of Kybernetes.
Sociocybernetics, Technology and Social Complexity – 2007
The 7th International Conference was arranged at Murcia, Spain (18-23 June). Information about the proceedings is given at the web site: socioeybernetics. unizar.es/ or from Chaime Marcuello Servos -E.U Estudios Sociales, Universidad de Zaragoza, Violante de Hungria 23,50009-Zaragoza, España.