EMCSR'94 European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research

----- Forwarded message begins here ----- From: sec(a)ai.univie.ac.at <sec(a)ai.univie.ac.at> Wed, 9 Feb 1994 14:36:11 GMT Subject: EMCSR'94 European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research * * * * * TWELFTH EUROPEAN MEETING * * ON * * CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH * * (EMCSR 1994) * April 5 - 8, 1994 UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA organized by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in cooperation with Dept.of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ.of Vienna and International Federation for Systems Research Plenary lectures: ***************** MARGARET BODEN (United Kingdom): "Artificial Intelligence and Creativity" STEPHEN GROSSBERG (USA): "Neural Networks for Learning, Recognition, and Prediction" STUART A. UMPLEBY (USA): "Twenty Years of Second Order Cybernetics" 241 papers will be presented and discussed in the following symposia: ********************************************************************* GENERAL SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY G.J.Klir (USA) ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS THEORY J.Miro (Spain), M.Peschel (Germany), F.Pichler (Austria) FUZZY SYSTEMS, APPROXIMATE REASONING AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS C.Carlsson (Finland), K.-P.Adlassnig (Austria), E.P.Klement (Austria) DESIGNING AND SYSTEMS, AND THEIR EDUCATION B.Banathy (USA), W.Gasparski (Poland), G.Goldschmidt (Israel) HUMANITY, ARCHITECTURE AND CONCEPTUALIZATION G.Pask (United Kingdom), G.de Zeeuw (Netherlands) BIOCYBERNETICS AND MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY L.M.Ricciardi (Italy) SYSTEMS AND ECOLOGY F.J.Radermacher (Germany), K.Fedra (Austria) CYBERNETICS AND INFORMATICS IN MEDICINE G.Gell (Austria), G.Porenta (Austria) CYBERNETICS OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS K.Balkus (USA), O.Ladanyi (Austria) SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION G.Broekstra (Netherlands), R.Hough (USA) CYBERNETICS OF COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT P.Ballonoff (USA), T.Koizumi (USA), S.A.Umpleby (USA) COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTERS A M.Tjoa (Austria) INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS J.Rozenblit (USA), H.Praehofer (Austria) CYBERNETIC PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT F.Heylighen (Belgium), S.A.Umpleby (USA) CYBERNETICS, SYSTEMS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY M.Okuyama (Japan), H.Koizumi (USA) ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS S.Grossberg (USA), G.Dorffner (Austria) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE V.Marik (Czech Republic), R.Born (Austria) TUTORIALS: ********** A SYNTACTIC APPROACH TO HEURISTIC NETWORKS: LINGUISTIC GEOMETRY Prof.Boris Stilman, University of Colorado, Denver, USA FUZZY SETS AND IMPRECISE BUT RELEVANT DECISIONS Prof.Christer Carlsson, Abo Akademi University, Abo, Finland CONTEXTUAL SYSTEMS: A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT Dr.Irina V. Ezhkova, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow TWENTY YEARS OF SECOND ORDER CYBERNETICS Prof.Stuart A. Umpleby, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA PROCEEDINGS: ************ Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '94, 2 vols, 1911 pages, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: *************************************** EMCSR'94 Secretariat c/o Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies Schottengasse 3 A-1010 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-53532810 Fax: +43-1-5320652 E-mail: sec(a)ai.univie.ac.at -- paolo petta +43-1-5336112(Tel) Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence +43-1-5320652(Fax) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe paolo(a)ai.univie.ac.at ------ Forwarded message ends here ------