The current status of academic journals in cybernetics and systems

Participant: Magnus Ramage
Affiliation: The Open University, UK
Format: Workshop

Kybernetes is a long-standing international journal in the area of cybernetics, systems and management science, which recently celebrated its fortieth anniversary. It published the proceedings of the ASC conference in 2010, and will publish the proceedings of this conference as well. The current editor, Brian Rudall, is standing down after a long and distinguished period of service, and is being replaced by a team of three from The Open University, UK – Magnus Ramage, David Chapman and Chris Bissell. This session has two purposes:

  1. Magnus Ramage, the journal’s new editor-in-chief, will talk about the new editorial team and their plans for the journal; and
  2. To provide a forum for discussing the current status of academic journals in cybernetics and systems, whether they need to change and if so how.