First Announcement and Call for Papers
Article Type: Special announcements From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 4
15th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC joint with 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services
Nanjing, China, 15-18 September 2011
Organised by
WOSC – World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics.
Institute for Grey Systems Studies, College of Economics and Management,Nanjing, University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.
Previous Congresses of WOSC
1st Congress, London, 1969.
2nd Congress, Oxford, 1972.
3rd Congress, Bucharest, 1975.
4th Congress, Amsterdam, 1978.
5th Congress, Mexico City, 1981.
6th Congress, Paris, 1984.
7th Congress, London, 1987.
8th Congress, New York City, 1990.
9th Congress, New Delhi, 1993.
10th Congress, Bucharest, 1996.
11th Congress, London, 1999.
12th Congress, Pittsburgh, 2002.
13th Congress, Maribor, 2005.
14th Congress, Wroclaw, 2008.
International Honorary Committee
Alex M. Andrew, UK.
Elie Bernard-Weil, France.
Constantin Bilciu, USA.
Bernadette Bouchon Meunier, France.
Nicolae BuIz, Romania.
Yves Cherruault, France.
George Constandache, Romania.
André Danzin, France.
Robert Vallée, France.
Dwijesh Dutta Majunder, India.
Raul Espejo, UK.
Angela Espinosa, Colombia.
Leon Feng, USA.
Charles François, Argentina.
Wojciech Gasparski, Poland.
Felix Geyer, The Netherlands.
Amitava Ghosal, India.
Bao Guo-Qing, China.
Hermann Haken, Germany.
Jerzy Józefczyk, Poland.
Tadeusz Kaczorek, Poland.
George Klir, USA.
Yi Lin, USA.
Amarante Lopes Pereira, Brazil.
Ion Mirita, Romania.
Mohamed Najim, Morocco.
Aldo Nigro, Italy.
Eufrosina Otlacan, Romania.
Jean Ramaecker, Belgium.
Ganti Prasada Rao, India.
Brian H. Rudall, UK.
Markus Schwaninger, Switzerland.
Liu Sifeng, China.
Martin Smith, UK.
Vadim Stefanuk, Russia.
Daniel Dubois, Belgium.
Xuemou Wu, China.
J. van der Zouwen, The Netherlands.
Lotfi Zadeh, USA.
Organising Committee
Co-Chairs
Robert Vallée, France.
Alex M. Andrew, UK.
Brian H. Rudall, UK.
Sifeng Liu, China.
Members
Yi Lin, USA.
Yingiie Yang, UK.
Zuo Zhang.
Zhigeng Fang.
Yaoguo Dang.
Jianjun Zhu.
Richard Chen.
Kevin Li, Canada.
Chuanmin Mi.
Congress topics
Artificial intelligence.
Behavioural sciences.
Biological and medical cybernetics.
Complex systems.
Cognition, action and systems.
Control theory and engineering.
Cybernetics and art.
Economics and cybernetics.
Dynamical systems.
Ecology and systems.
Education and systems.
Fuzzy systems.
Mathematical and general theory of systems.
Grey systems.
History of cybernetics and systems.
Information and systems.
Machine consciousness.
Management and systems.
Social cybernetics
System analysis.
Data mining and processing.
Systems modelling and simulation.
Forecasting and decision making.
Control.
System theory and applications.
Uncertain systems.
Business process management and re-engineering.
Global manufacturing, supply chain and logistics.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Service and services delivery networks.
Service sciences, management and engineering.
Emergency and risk management.
Technical innovation management.
Other relevant topics.
Important dates
10 February 2011 – submission of invited sessions proposals.
10 March 2011 – deadline for submission of full papers.
15 April 2011 – acceptance/rejection notification.
31 May 2011 – submission of final camera-ready papers and congress fee.
Submission of papers
Submissions should describe original completed or ongoing research work not submitted or published elsewhere.
The submitted full papers should be prepared according to the templates available at: http://wosc-congress.nuaa.edu.cn
Accepted full papers should be no longer than eight pages.
Accepted papers will be given 15-20 minutes for the presentation and discussion.
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC. The Proceedings will be available at the congress.
The author responsible for correspondence, including the author’s name,telephone, fax number and e-mail address, has to be identified.
One of the authors of each accepted paper should register and present the paper at the congress.
Address for submission
Authors are requested to submit their extended abstracts and full texts electronically as a PDF file by following the link instructions at the congress home page: http://wosc-congress.nuaa.edu.cn
E-mail submission is also possible at: wosc-congress@nuaa.edu.cn
Congress fee
The fee for the participants will be €250. It covers admittance to all sessions, single copy of CDROM Proceedings, refreshments and social events. The congress fee is exclusive of accommodation charges.
Contributions cannot be included in the proceedings, unless registration,full payment and full texts are received by 31 May 2011. This deadline should be strictly respected.
Congress language
The working language of the congress is English.
Copyright
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in Kybernetes(the official journal of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics), The Journal of Grey Systems (published in England in English), Journal of Grey Systems (published in Taiwan in English), or in Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (published in China in English). The editors of the journals will take the final decisions about the publications after the papers have undergone a usual reviewing procedure.
Accommodation
Information about a hotel reservation will be available by 31 May 2011. Details will be announced on the congress web site.
Congress venue
The 15th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC will take place at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Nanjing is a famous historic city described as “a birthplace of southern beauties and a habitat of royal rulers” by ancient Chinese poets,and ranks as one of the six major ancient Chinese capitals. Nanjing, a city with“a curling dragon and a crouching tiger”, is nestled amid green mountains and forests and water bodies. And the ten great scenic areas have formed the beautiful tourist sceneries of Nanjing. Foreign visitors are offered direct international plane connections to Nanjing, Shanghai (1 hour to Nanjing by express train), Beijing (1.5 hours to Nanjing by airplane), Hong Kong (2 hours to Nanjing by airplane) or Guangzhou (1.8 hours to Nanjing by airplane).
Congress web site
For more information about the 15th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC please visit the web site: http://wosc-congress.nuaa.edu.cn
Contact addresses
Sifeng Liu, e-mail: sfliu@nuaa.edu.cn
Chuanmin Mi, e-mail: cmmi@nuaa.edu.cn
College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 29 Imperial Street, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China, Tel. and Fax: +86-25-84896149.
