The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences IASCYS

Abstract

The IASCYS (The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences) was initially established by IFSR (The International Federation for Systems Research ) but is now open to all “organizations covering or applying systems theories and cybernetics around the world“ (article added to the IFSR’s decision on establishment of IASCYS in 2010 and passed in 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fed eration_for_Systems_Research). The IFSR current President is Garry Metcalf. The IFSR (http://ifsr.org) publishes 2 times a year a report on its activities in its on line newsletter, whose editor is the IFSR Secretary General, currently Gerhard Chroust. After a 2 years round of thinking and discussion (first IFSR board of trustees session, 26 March 2008), the Academy was founded by the IFSR in April 2010, the 7 th , in Vienna (Austria). The founding members were: Matjaz Mulej (Slovenia) as President, Jifa Gu (PR China) and Ranulph Glanville (UK) as VicePresidents, Pierre Bricage (France) as Secretary General, Guangya Chen, Shouyang Wang and Jiuping Xu (PR China), Charles Francois and Enrique Herrscher (Argentina), Kyoichi Jim Kijima and Yoshiteru Nakamori (Japan), Andrej Wierzbicki (Poland) and Robert Vallee (France) President of WOSC (http://wosc.co). The IFSR is a federation of national (like the American Society for Cybernetics ASC) and international societies. A half of the Societies are from European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Nederland, Slovenia, Spain, for example). But, because of the presence of Argentina, LatinoAmericana, Mexicana and Spain Societies, the second language is Spanish. But the IFSR is also a federation of international societies (International Institute Galileo Galilei, International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, International Council on Systems Engineering, International Society for the Systems Sciences ISSS, World Complexity Science Academy WCSA and others). Indeed the IFSR is a federation of associations and federations. The societies that are the largest in membership are those from Asia (the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Societies). The largest one is the Chinese one. Indeed the first language of IFSR could be Chinese... The Chinese society has more members that the sum of all the others. So the IASCYS first General Assembly took place in October 2010 in the Popular Republic of China, at Chengdu (Sichuan), with a week long international meeting [1].