Special announcements

Citation

(2011), "Special announcements", Kybernetes, Vol. 40 No. 7/8. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2011.06740gaa.029

Special announcements

Article Type: Special announcements From: Kybernetes, Volume 40, Issue 7/8

15th International Congress on Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC joint with 2011 IEEE International Conference on Grey Systems and Intelligent ServicesCall for Participation at 15th CongressNanjing, China15-18 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 website

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

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.

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: http://systemica2011.eu/, info@systemica2011.eu

Onward! 2011ACM Conference on New Ideas in Programming, and Reflections on Software22-27 October 2011

Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Chair: Robert Hirschfeld

Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, Germany.

The conference is co-located with SPLASH/OOPSLA.

Information from: http://onward-conference.org