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International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS)

 


www.isss.org

 

People like Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding, Jim Miller, and Anatol Rappaport founded the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) in 1954 as the Society for General Systems Research. These scientists-biologists, economists, sociologists, mathematicians, and others-"recognized a compelling need for a unified disciplined inquiry in understanding and dealing with increasing complexities, complexities that are beyond the competence of any single discipline"*.In 1988, the Society for General Systems Research changed its name to ISSS. Its distinguished presidents are a Who's Who of the outstanding systems scientists of the 20th century, including Margaret Mead, Kenneth Boulding, Bela H. Banathy, Ervin Laszlo, Ilya Prigogine, to name a few. The ISSS conference in Crete 2003 will bring to bear the combined and diverse wisdom of the world's finest systemic thinkers. Using proven consensus-evolving methodology, they will demonstrate the methodology for constructing agoras for our global village and construct integrated action plans for bringing them about.The ISSS website contains reports on current happenings, special features, references, conferences, special presentations, links, bulletins, educational projects, membership and administration information. It is a trove of valuable resources for discovering what is going on in systems science today.

 

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