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The 2018 Conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences will be held July 22 – 27, 2018 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon USA, on the theme:
“Innovation and Optimization in Nature and Design”
The Action Research SIG invites ISSS members to submit papers for presentation at the conference associated with The 62nd Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
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CARN has had a hugely successful conference in Crete where their hosts provided all participants the most wonderful hospitality.
Keynotes were by Andy Townsend, Sofia Avgitidou and Michael Wright - all inspirational in entirely different ways. Members of Regional CARN groups - Greek, Portuguese-speaking, Norwegian, German-speaking and Dutch - colleagues joined the event sharing details of their activities - including a conference in December 2017 in Brazil to be hosted by the Portuguese-speaking group.
The pre-conference workshops were lively, and in the ARNA Knowledge Democracy workshop, were further enlivened by the presence of local Philosophy students whose course leader noticed the subject and negotiated their attendance.
A special track is being organized by proponents from the Project Organising SIG (supported by members of the Innovation SIG) inviting papers being held at the University of Iceland from 20-23rd June. Papers are due by January 10, 2018. We invite you to consider submitting papers to this track.