Vienna 2014 | Workshop | Current Problems of Systems Theory
The BCSSS organised a small workshop for invited guests with Rainer E. Zimmermann on May 30, 2014. Start of the workshop (photo: Wolfgang Hofkirchner) Zimmermann stayed during spring term as Researcher in Residence with the Bertalanffy Center. In the workshop he provided an overview of the studies he carried out when being…
“Measuring Organisational Efficiency” – new book release
The BCSSS published the fourth volume of its book series. Francisco Parra-Luna, Sociologist, Professor Emeritus at the Complutense University, Madrid, and Eva Kasparova, Senior Lecturer in Managerial Sociology at the University of Economics, Prague, edited a volume with several contributions to a highly contested topic: do the current instruments of…
Invitation to the European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2014
The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science proudly presents the upcoming European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research 2014, 22-25 April 2014 in Vienna. It is the second time we are responsible for the co-production of the most distinguished systems organizations and communities in the world, in addition…
Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship awarded
The Ludwig von Bertalanffy PhD Scholarship was awarded to Asimina Koukou from Greece for a period of three years. She convinced the Scholarship Committee set up by the Bertalanffy Center in a competitive interview with four candidates after scrutinising the applications. Her Phd research supervised by Prof. Katharine Sarikakis at…
León 2014 | Workshop | Understanding Complexity
From 27 – 30 January, 2014 , a workshop for students was held under the title “Understanding complexity: systems, emergence and evolution“. It was organised and introduced by BCSSS Fellow José María Díaz Nafría. In addition, the Center was represented by Rainer Zimmermann who gave a lecture course on the foundations…
Invitation to the Bertalanffy Symposium 2013
We heartly invite you to the upcoming 2nd Bertalanffy Symposium Emergence: Systems – Evolution – Information jointly organised by the BCSSS and the Working Group Information Studies at the Austrian Computer Society. The current worldview of complexity aims at understanding emergent phenomena. Austrian and international experts from different disciplines –…
Systems Sciences meet Systems Engineering
A small group of international experts from both systems sciences and systems engineering met in the beginning of November for a six days conversation in a research retreat near Cómpeta (Malaga, Spain). Janet Singer, an independent researcher, member of the ISSS, convoked that group “to test the premise that more robust, coherent and effective…
Systems Sciences and the global challenges
These bubbles are the symbol for the EMCSR facilitated by the Bertalanffy Center: a self-organised meeting on sciences and technologies for the self-organisation of our future (photo: Scott Camazine) The next European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research is scheduled for 22-25 April 2014. As always, it will take place…
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