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Systemic approach, and systems science, and systems thinking constituted essential elements of the development of industrial civilization and has helped in the formation of basic concepts that are essential for knowledge civilization. However, systems science, though interdisciplinary by definition, suffers itself from a disciplinary split into soft systemic approaches pursued by social sciences and hard systemic approaches pursued by hard sciences and technology. In the beginnings of knowledge civilization, there is a need for a new integration of systems science as the discipline concerned with methods of intercultural and interdisciplinary integration of knowledge, including soft intersubjective and hard objective approaches, open and, above all, informed. For this, a vision of knowledge civilization is needed, including main megatrends of the new era, impacts of network technology, change in diverse scientific disciplines, conflicts and stages of the coming era.

Symposium 6 welcomes any papers related to these subjects, including:

1. Systemic aspects of a vision of knowledge civilization era
   
2. The role of systems research in supporting knowledge creation processes
   
3. The role of systems research in supporting sustainable development
   
4. The role of systems research in supporting intercultural understanding
   
5. New issues and techniques in systems research, such as grid computations, networked virtual laboratories, networked platforms for debating
   
6. Concepts that contributed to knowledge civilization era, such as computational intelligence, fuzzy and rough logic
   
7. New definitions of the role of systems science in time of knowledge civilization

Andrzej P. Wierzbicki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
1-1 Asahidai, Nomi-city
Ishikawa 923-1292 Japan

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