15th International Conference on Systems Science

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Vallée, R. (2005), "15th International Conference on Systems Science", Kybernetes, Vol. 34 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2005.06734iab.003

15th International Conference on Systems Science

The “15th International Conference on Systems Science” was held, from 7-10 September 2004, in Wroclaw (Poland). It was organized by the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering of Wroclaw University of Technology (Director Professor Z. Bubnicki) and co-sponsored by the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and the Committee of Automation and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (President Professor Z. Bubnicki). The general chairman was Professor Z. Bubnicki. Among members of the International Program Committee there were: Professors D.J.G. James (UK), G. Klir (USA), F. Pichler (Austria), G.P. Rao (India, UNESCO), R. Vallée (France, President of WOSC), W.R. Wells (USA), and L.A. Zadeh (USA)...

The opening session, on Monday 7 September, was chaired by the Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology and by Professors Z. Bubnicki, D.J.G. James, A. Grzech (Vice-Rector, President of the Organizing Committee) and R. Vallée who gave an address of which we quote the following paragraph:

I wish a great success to the congress on behalf of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, in short WOSC, also known as Organisation Mondiale pour la Systemique et la Cybernétique, co-sponsor of this conference... The links between WOSC and the Institute of Control and Systems Engineering have already been stated, particularly with the presentation to Professor Bubnicki of an Honorary Fellowship in 2001 at the occasion of the WOSC congress in Pittsburgh... In the name of Professor J. Rose founder and Honorary Director of WOSC, Dr Alex Andrew Director-General, Professor Brian Rudall Vice-President and myself, I renew my wishes. Remembering the contributions of Poland to cybernetics (not forgetting Trentowski, 1843), economic cybernetics (Oskar Lange), praxiology, automation... I am sure that this event will be a great success.

The first plenary session (Monday), chaired by Professor W.R. Wells, was devoted to “MGST approach to information systems development” (Y. Takahara, Japan) and “Some issues about multirate control systems” (P. Albertos, J. Salt, Spain). The second (Wednesday), chaired by Professor L. Keviczky (Hungary), proposed a lecture on “Uncertain variables and their applications in uncertain systems” (Z. Bubnicki) and another about “Identification of continuous-time systems: direct or indirect?” (G.P. Rao, H. Gamier, India). On Thursday some members of the International Program Committee were invited by the Wroclaw Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in the University Senate Hall, to a session on the perspectives and international cooperation in the field of information and systems science. The conference dinner was held at great hotel of Wroclaw.

At the begining of the conference, three volumes of abstracts were distributed. Selected papers were to be published in “Systems Science”, a Polish journal in English, or in Kybernetes. The topics covered included: systems theory, identification, control theory, systems and control engineering, operation and manufacturing systems, uncertain systems and decision systems, knowledge engineering and intelligent systems, information systems, applications.

Robert Vallée