INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMS SCIENCES
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1759 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
Formerly: “Society for General Systems Research”.
This was the original Society, created in 1956 in the U.S. by the founders: L.von BERTALANFFY, K. BOULDING, A. RAPOPORT and other scientists of various disciplines.
It has presently national divisions in Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America, as well as a number of chapters in various states of the U.S., all represented in the Template:Ency entity Council. The Society has a number of Special Interest Groups (S.I.G.s) interested in specific uses of Systems concepts and models, as for example Law, Systems Epistemology, Climate change, Psychology, Informatics, etc… It publishes a quarterly “General Systems Bulletin” with announcements, comments, membership information, reviews and directories. It has also published annually for 28 years an important “General Systems Yearbook”, with valuable collections of papers. (suspended since 1985).
It organizes a yearly meeting with numerous systemists who present and discuss their ideas.
The Society sponsors some of the main journals in the field:
- International Journal of General Systems (Ed. G. KLIR)
- Systems Research (Ed. M. JACKSON) fused 1997
- Behavioral Science (Ed. J.G. MILLER) fused 1997