Conference reports

Conference reports

World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC)

The 12th International WOSC Congress and the 14th IIGSS Workshop

Reports of the congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics and the International Institute for General Systems Studies (IIGS) held on the 24-26 March 2002 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA will be published in future issues of Kybernetes. Selected papers from the congress will be published as a Special Double issue guest edited by Professor Yi Lin. Details of the Kybernetes Research Award presented for an outstanding paper given at the congress,together with those papers that merit a high commendation will also be included. A panel of judges chaired by Professor Robert Vallée, the Director-General of WOSC, which included: Dr Alex. M. Andrew, the Internet Editor of this journal selected the award winners.

PREP 2002 - Nottingham UK

The popular postgraduate-research student-oriented conference in the PREP series took place at Nottingham 17-19 April 2002. PREP 2002 covered Photonics,Electronics, Communications and Software. It had the advantage that free places had been allocated to full time research students from UK Universities who had a paper or poster accepted for the conference. At the same time other research students, including those from outside the United Kingdom, had been encouraged to attend.

IEEE had provided travel support for four students from Eastern Europe and the IEEE was also involved in the selection of the Poster Prize winner. The IEEE's UK section had a membership stand at the exhibition which was associated with the conference. The conference provided, as did the previous meetings in the series, an excellent opportunity for research students to present their work in a less-demanding environment than a large international conference. It also enabled research students to interact with students from outside the UK who represented many other universities, and to compare their experiences.

Details of the PREP series of conferences can be obtained from: www.epsrc.ac.uk/prep

2002 IEEE International Conference on Engineering Management - Managing Technology for the New Economy

Both management and managing technology are important fields within the compass of the interdisciplinary fields of cybernetics and systems. This meeting at Cambridge UK in August 18-20, 2002 touches both areas. Papers have been invited on start-up experiences and from aerospace, automotive, communications,consumer electronics, computers, finance and healthcare industries amongst others. The Board of Governers of the IEEE Engineering Management Society are organising this prestigious conference.

For further details contact: Professor Tariq S. Durrani, E-mail: t.durrani@ieee.org; Fax: +44(0) 141 552 2487