Martin Schliefnig wrote his dissertation thesis on a model for a Computational General System Theory. He studied at the Vienna University of Technology. His work was supervised by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Peter Fleissner. Details about the work can be found here

by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Wolfgang Hofkirchner gave a presentation at the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Sociocybernetics annual meeting. The 9th Conference on Sociocybernetics was titled „Modernity 2.0 – Emerging Social Media Technologies and their impacts“ and held in Urbino. Hofkirchner presented a paper on how the system theoretical perspective…

by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Matthias Schafranek Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Matthias Schafranek, PhD student at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, finalised a manuscript on „General System Theory“. It will be part of Elsevier’s „Handbook of the Philosophy of Science“ series volume „Philosophy of Complex Systems“ that is edited by Cliff Hooker…

Volume 1 now available The BCSSS book series was launched with volume one: The biography „The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness: Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Biography Revisited“ written by David Pouvreau is now available in print and electronically at ISCE Publishing.

The archive of our center is now linked to the Vienna University Library.

at a congress in Mexico. At the 2008 congress on electromechanical engineering and systems SEPI/ESIME IPN in Mexico city Elohim Jiménez-López will present work on „sustainable development of the human personality“.

In autumn a CD will be released with a radio lecture of Bertalanffy on evolution theory, that he gave in 1954 for the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (today SWR). Further information will be made available by Audio Akademie.