Awards

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(2012), "Awards", Kybernetes, Vol. 41 No. 5/6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2012.06741eaa.007

Awards

Article Type: Awards From: Kybernetes, Volume 41, Issue 5/6

15th WOSC Congress Awards15th Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics – Presentations

The successful Congress was held in Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, during September 15-18, 2011, jointly with the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, with local arrangements admirably seen to by Professor Sifeng Liu and his team.

Presentation of the WOSC Honorary Fellowship

At the close of the Congress, Dr Alex Andrew, the (then) Director-General of WOSC, presented to Professor Julong Deng, the originator of Grey Systems Theory, the Honorary Fellowship of WOSC. He belongs to the Department of Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.

Kybernetes Research Awards

The Kybernetes Research Awards were instituted by Professor Brian Rudall in 1984 and have been presented at all subsequent congresses of the World Organisation. On this occasion they were also presented to mark the 40th Anniversary of the journal, which is the official publication of WOSC.

The awards are sponsored by Emerald Group Publishing and also by the Norbert Wiener Institute of Systems and Cybernetics.

The awards are made for the outstanding paper of the Congress, and for three highly commended papers.

The awards were: the Kybernetes prize for the outstanding paper of the Congress, and three for highly commended papers. The outstanding paper award was for the paper:

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  “Elements of the parametrical regulation theory of the national economy evolution based on computable general equilibrium models” by Abdykappar A. Ashimov, Bahyt T. Sultanov, Zheksenbek M. Adilov, Yuriy V. Borovskiy, Nikolay Yu. Borovskiy, and Askar A. Ashimov, of the Department of Parametrical Regulation of the Kazakh National Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The three highly commended papers were as follows:

1. 1.

   “Novel DGM model of systematic main variable trend forecasting based on interval grey number sequence” by Naiming Xie, of the College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Yudao St, Nanjing.

2. 2.

   “P-moment stability of impulsive stochastic differential systems and its application in grey stochastic delay systems” by Chunhua Su and Dang Luo, of the College of Mathematics and Information Science, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang, 464000, PR China.

3. 3.

   “Worst-case absolute regret based solution algorithms for optimization problems with interval uncertainty” by Jerzy Józefczyk and Marcin Siepak, of the Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland.

We congratulate these recipients. Details of the awards are.

The Kybernetes Research Award – £350-00 (one award only)

Award Winner’s Plaque/Award Winner’s Certificate

Publication of the full award-winning paper in Kybernetes – The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics (subject to copyright) full one-year subscription to Kybernetes + online service.

The Kybernetes Research Awards for highly commended papers – (three awards only)

Award Winner’s Certificate

Publication of the full award-winning paper in Kybernetes – The International Journal of Systems and Cybernetics (subject to copyright) (Figures 1 and 2).

Figure 1 Presentation by Dr Alex Andrew of award to Dr Xie Naiming for highly commended paper

Figure 2 Presentation by Dr Alex Andrew of award to Dr Su Chunhua for highly commended paper

The Grey Systems Theory and Applications Awards

The Emerald journal: Grey Systems: Theory and Application also awarded four highly commended papers of which details will be given in that journal. Two of the presentations are shown in Figures 3 and 4.

Figure 3 Presentation by Dr Alex Andrew of award to Professor Size Li for Grey Systems Theory and Applications highly commended paper

Figure 4 Presentation by Professor Sifeng Liu (on right in dark jacket) of award to Professor Cheng-Hsiung Hsieh for Grey Systems Theory and Applications highly commended paper