World Organisation Of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)
World Organisation Of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)
New WOSC address
The director general of WOSC has given details of the change of address of the organization. These are given in full in Dr Andrew's internet commentary published in this issue. He writes that a new page has been set up and for the time being can be accessed at: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/alexandrew/wosc.htm
He notes that the link with the Cybernetics Society has been updated accordingly and that other possibilities for the WOSC site are under consideration.
WOSC Secretariat
The WOSC Secretariat is still at: 95 Finch Road, Earley, Reading RG6 7JX, UK Tel/Fax: (+44 or 0) 118 9269328
WOSC sponsorships
WOSC will be represented at most of the important meetings, conferences and events held in the Systems and Cybernetics Community. Many of these occasions will include WOSC as one of the sponsors. In particular, WOSC will be academic/scientific co-sponsors of:
The 11th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informaticsheld jointly with The 13th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis at Orlando, Florida, USA (8-11 July 2007) WMSCI 2007 and ISAS 2007 details are included at: www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007
XVI International Conference on Systems Science to be held at Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland (4-6 September 2007) Information about the conference are available at: www.iit.pwr.wroc.pl/icss/. The Committee of Automation and Robotics and also the Polish Academy of Sciences are co-sponsors. It has been arranged that selected papers or their extended versions will be published in Systems Science journal (available in English) or in Kybernetes the official publication of WOSC. Contact: Adam Grech, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzez Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw Poland. Tel:+48 71 320 33 28; Fax: +48 71 32038 84; e-mail: ics@pwr.wroc.pl
Details of other events that will be supported by WOSC's federated organisations and institutions are given in the Announcements and Special Announcements sections of this journal.
WOSC Institute of Systems and Cybernetics
Discussion and consultation meetings of the Norbert Wiener Institute of Systems and Cybernetics have been held at a number of venues. These have centred on a number of issues and on future planning of its structure and functions. WOSC federated bodies are encouraged to contact the Institute about these and in particular about the following:
Appointment of leading cyberneticians and systemists as consultants in some of the many interdisciplinary areas of the field. Currently the appointments are either sponsored or honorary.
Membership of the Institute should a graded system of individual and/or corporate membership be instituted?
Research contribution currently research and developments are published in academic journals and other publications.
Kybernetes being the officially chosen publication of WOSC encourages research to be peer-reviewed and included if suitable, in its special and regular issues – should the institute consider other means of publicising these endeavours?
WOSC news
Arrangements are being completed for the next WOSC Congress which is to have a venue in Europe. The Director-General Dr Andrew will announce details on his web site as soon as they are finalised.
WOSC's President, Professor Robert Vallée has expressed the organisation's support for Stafford Beer's Memorial Lectures to be held. The first of the series is currently being arranged in the context of the WMSCI 2007 conference to be held in Orlando USA in July 2007 and co-sponsored by WOSC.
Professor Raul Espejo a Director of WOSC, has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Kybernetes WOSC's official publication. Professor Robert Vallée will represent WOSC at a number of important events in 2007. Members of the Directorate will also attend and have accepted invitations to join the programme committees and to participate in the events.
Literati Awards for outstanding contributions to Kybernetes in Volume 36 Nos. 1-10, 2006, are being decided. The nominations which have the full support of WOSC, which participated in the selections, have been submitted to the publishers Emerald. The list of awards will be announced in the next issues of the journal.
