A global community connected through systems science and practice
"To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us."
ISSS Past President Anatol Rapoport
The ISSS is a community of researchers, learners, and practitioners who are devoted to transdisciplinary inquiry into the nature of complex systems and the application of systems approaches for transformative change.
Conceived in 1954, the ISSS advances systems science theory and application by connecting and enabling researchers and practitioners, and disseminates the knowledge of systems to a global audience.
Membership
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ISSS President
The ISSS President for 2021-2022 is George Mobus PhD. Calendar
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in the Systems Sciences SIG Meeting
Monday, May 23, 2022
11am to 12:30pm
The DEI SIG is currently meeting monthly on the fourth Monday of the month.
Past President Reflections - Shankar Sankaran 2019
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
1pm to 3pm
I have recently been writing about the importance of systems theories to governance of projects and its role in promoting the achievement of UN SDGs for a Handbook on governance...
Past President Reflections - David Ing 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2022
7am to 9am
Abstract: The 1998 ISSS Atlanta meeting, led by G.A. Swanson, is cited by David Ing as the single best educational experience of his life. The meeting featured Russell Ackoff, James...
ISSS News Articles
Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic: Call for Papers
Posted on Apr 12th, 2022
ISSS Member Prof. Dr. Gerhard Chroust is Programme Chair for this conference and there is a call for papers.
IDIMT 2022 30th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks
“Digitalization of Society, Business and Management in a Pandemic”
Prague, Czech Republic,
September 7th – 9th, 2022
2022 ISSS Annual Meeting and Conference
Posted on Feb 12th, 2022
Hold the date
ISSS2022 ONLINE
ADVANCES IN SYSTEMS SCIENCES AND SYSTEMS PRACTICE
8 -12 JULY 2022
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Blog
Posted on March 7, 2022 2:00 PM
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Posted on July 15, 2021 9:00 PM
Posted on July 10, 2021 6:00 PM
Activities
ISSS members are engaged in a number of activities around the world. Read more at https://www.isss.org/activities/
Many member activities are collaborative in nature and also involve partnerships and collaborations with other organizations:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Systems Science Working Group
Systems Literacy
Systemic Action at the Village Level to encourage and support sustainable development.
World of Systems
The ISSS is one of the oldest organizations dedicated to the study, development and application of systems science, systems thinking, cybernetics and complexity science.
We are assembling lists of organizations, social network pages and groups, and also maps of the evolution of the field of systems and cybernetics. Here are some examples
Tom Marzolf's Systems Common Model
Watch video with Peter Tuddenham and Tom Marzolf in conversation about the model
Watch video with Peter Tuddenham and Tom Marzolf in conversation about the model
Please email me with comments, additions or corrections. Peter D Tuddenham peterdtuddenham at gmail.com
Meeting Proceedings
We Remember
We Remember
Ralph Stacey 1942 - 2021
Steven E Wallis July 29, 2021
James Robert Simms, December 5, 1924 - Saturday, May 22, 2021
Humberto Maturana 1929 - May 2021
Mary Catherine Bateson 1939 - 2 January 2021
Charles Bocage died 21 August 2020
Peter Caws May 25, 1931 - April 20, 2020 (ISSS President 1966)
Joe Simpson - June 2020
Jack Ring - April 2020
Enrique Herrscher 2019
Charles Francois 2019
Systems Science & Applications Spotlight
Members of ISSS are researching and applying Systems Science in a variety of situations and circumstances. we are creating a temporary Editorial Board to decide what new research and application by ISSS Members to feature here. For more information please email webadmin@isss.org
AAAS Affiliate
In 1954 the founders of the current ISSS met at meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). They decided to start the Society for General Systems Theory later renamed Society for General Systems Research and now called the International Society for the Systems Sciences. One of the early group of founders and first presidents of our society in 1957, Kenneth Ewart Boulding was President of AAAS in 1980