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* 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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Trappl R.(ed.): CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS '94,
2 vols, 1911 pages, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
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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@ai.univie.ac.at