Citation
(2011), "Special announcements", Kybernetes, Vol. 40 No. 5/6. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2011.06740eaa.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Special announcements
Article Type: Special announcements From: Kybernetes, Volume 40, Issue 5/6
15th International Congress of Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC joint with 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent Services
Call for participation at 15th CongressNanjing, China, 15-18 September, 2011
Organised by
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WOSC – The World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics.
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College of Economics and Management, Institute for Grey Systems Studies, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.
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, 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 plan connections to Nanjing, Shanghai (1 h to Nanjing by express train), Beijing (1.5 h to Nanjing by airplane), Hong Kong (2 h to Nanjing by airplane) or Guangzhou (1.8 h to Nanjing by airplane).
Congress information
Please see the contacts given below for latest information about the congress and in particular the many special sessions that have been arranged. One new session is in the area of organisational cybernetics. Details from Professor Raul Espejo (r.espejo@syncho.org).
Congress web site
For more information about the 15th international congress of cybernetics and systems of WOSC, please visit the web site: Contact: web site: http://wosc-congress.nuaa.edu.cn
Full details – see Kybernetes, Vol. 39, No. 7, 2010.
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.
Call for participation 8th Congress of the European Union for Systems (EUS)8ème Congrès de l’Union Européenne de Systémique (UES) 19-22 October, 2011
Institut de Sociologie de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Jeanne 44, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique.
Contact: web site: http://systemica2011.eu; e-mail: info@systemica2011.eu
22-27 October, 2011 Co-located with SPLASH/OOPSLA Hilton Portland & Executive Tower Portland, OR, USA Onward! 2011 ACM Conference on New Ideas in Programming, and Reflections on Software
Contact: web site: http://onward-conference.org
Chair
Robert Hirschfeld
Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany
E-mails: chair@onward-conference.org, essays@onward-conference.org, papers@onward-conference.org, films@onward-conference.orgworkshops@onward-conference.org
Call for participationIEEE 7th World Congress on Services (Services 2011), 5-10 July, Washington, DC, USA
Contact: web site: www.servicescongress.org/2011
Modernization of all vertical services industries including finance, government, media, communication, healthcare, insurance, energy, etc.
IncorporatingIEEE 8th International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2011)
In the modern services and software industry, services computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the science and technology of bridging the gap between business services and IT services.
IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 20011)
Cloud computing is becoming a scalable services delivery and consumption platform in the field of services computing.
Visit the web site: http://thecloudcomputing.org
IEEE 9th International Conference on Web Services (CWS 2011)
As a major implementation technology for modernizing software and services industry, web services are internet-based application components published using standard interface description languages and universally available via uniform communication protocols.
Visit the web site: http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2011/; icws.org