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Review of the 4th International Circular Change Conference 2019 Maribor

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Circular Economy Systems, Meetings, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

Maribor, Slovenia, May 16th and 17th 2019. The 4th edition of the International Circular Change Conference was at the same time a celebration of successes and best practices, a meeting of the global “circular community”, and a platform that sent…

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Commoning and Business Process Management

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Meetings

On 6 April 2018, the framework of the 10th conference of Subject-oriented Business Process Management (S-BPM), hosted by the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), offered the opportunity to extend the focus of innovative approaches to business process management and to…

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BCSSS Fellow John Collier on “Autonomy”. 28th March 2018 at BCSSS.

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures

BCSSS Fellow John Collier, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate, Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, will visit the Center again for research reasons. Visit his Open Lecture on “What is Autonomy?” 28th March 2018 16:00 BCSSS, Paulanergasse 13/5, 1040 Wien…

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Is there still a distinction between a Human and a Robot?

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Emergent Systems Information and Society, Publications, Uncategorized

The IEEE (“Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers” – the world’s largest professional association) recently published Version 2 of Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS), produced by the IEEE Global Initiative on…

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Symmetry Festival 2016

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Tess Marja Werner Posted in Calls

Symmetry Festival 2016 Arts & Science Programs. General Relativity 100! 18th – 22nd July 2016 The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science is pleased to be this year’s cooperation partner of the World’s largest multidisciplinary Conference & Art…

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Call for Papers and Participation ISSS 2016 Special Integration Group on Socio-Ecological Systems in Boulder, USA, July 24-30, 2016

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Calls, Socio-Ecological Systems and Design

In 2016 we continue our successful collaboration with the International Society for the Systems Sciences. The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science calls for your papers and participation in this years meeting in Boulder, USA from 24-30 July…

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The BCSSS Lecture Series in „Systems Science and Medicine“ continues with Evolutionary Medicine and Systemic Holistic Medicine

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Stefan Blachfellner Posted in Calls, Systems Medicine and Health Care Systems

We cordially invite you to join the next event of the BCSSS lecture series „Systems Science and Medicine“: Prof. Dr. Detlev Ganten, Charité Berlin presents on Thursday, November 19th 2015, 6pm his findings on Evolutionäre Medizin und systemische ganzheitliche Medizin…

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The Turing machine model and “natural computation”

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Wolfgang Hofkirchner Posted in Calls, Emergent Systems Information and Society, Lectures

Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of our recently established Research Group on Emergent Systems, Information and Society, will visit Vienna and give a talk on A Taxonomy of Computation and Information Architecture. The question is how the turing model of computation relates to…

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