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                *       TWELFTH EUROPEAN MEETING        *
                                   
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                *    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 at ai.univie.ac.at