40 years EMCSR in Vienna
EMCSR is the acronym for European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research. Robert Trappl held the biannual conferences 20 times since 1972! he handed over to me the chair of the conference series and thus the post of the key organiser. i feel very honoured to be elected by him and, at the same time, obliged to serve the community. this is in full congruence with the raison d’être of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science. i want to focus on discussions of underlying assumptions of different system approaches with the aim of clarifying similarities and peculiarities. and i want to focus on the impact on society in order to stress the necessity to contribute to mastering the global challenges! see the new website.
i just launched a call for symposia (tracks) to be self-organised by the community.
and i’m happy that Ervin László and Edgar Morin have already confirmed to hold keynotes.