International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences:

Challenges to Complexity

JAIST, Japan; November 25-27, 2000

Organized by:

Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan

 

Co-sponsors:

International Society for the Systems Sciences

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Japan Institute of System Research

National Natural Science Foundation of China

 

Supported by:

Fujitsu Chair of Science of Complex Systems

Organization of Symposium

 

General Chair:  SHIMEMURA Etsujiro (President of JAIST, Japan)

 

International Program Committee:

 

Chairman:        NAKAMORI Yoshiteru (JAIST, Japan)

Members:         GU Jifa (JAIST, Japan) Chair of program and publication

YOSHIDA Taketoshi (JAIST, Japan) Chair of local organization

Kyoichi Kijima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Chair of Forum 1

MIDGLEY Gerald (University of Hull, United Kingdom) Chair of Forum 2

ZHU Zhichang (University of Hull, United Kingdom) Chair of Forum 2

WANG Shouyang (Institute of Systems Science, CAS, China) Chair of Forum 3

 

International Advisory Committee:

 

                        S.W. Cheng (Professor, Peking University, National Natural Sciences Foundation of China)

                        M. Jackson (Dean and Professor, Hull University Business School (HUBS), University of Hull, UK)

                        G.J. MacDonald (Director, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)

                        I. Nonaka (Professor, School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Japan)

                        Y.P. Rhee (President, Korea Complex Systems Institute, Korea)

                        Y. Sawaragi (Chairman, Japan Institute of Systems Research, Japan) Chair of the committee

                        Z.T. Wang (Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China)

                        A.P. Wierzbicki (Director, National Institute of Telecommunications, Poland)  
 

 

Forum 1: Knowledge Science, emphasized on the relations between systems science and knowledge science

Forum 2: Systems Science, emphasized on the comparison of western and eastern systems methodologies

Forum 3: Science of Complexity, emphasized on the roles of systems methodologies for science of complexity