The journals are listed in alphabetical order by title.

SUPERSEDED: KYBERNETIK
Provides experimental and theoretical information in the fields of quantitative analysis of behavior, quantitative physiological studies of information processing in receptors, neural systems and effectors, and computational studies of perceptual motor information processing tasks.

During the period 1986 through 1989, this publication also served as the official ASC newsletter.

Due to the historic significance and educational value of the discussions embodied in Continuing the Conversation, all issues (#1, Spring 1985 through #24, Spring 1991) have been recreated complete by Dag Forssell in 2009. This set of documentation has been compiled into a single PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader) document. This PDF file is available for downloading at:

http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/publications/ContinuingTheConversation.pdf

http://www.chkjournal.org/

"The journal is devoted to the new understandings of self-organizing processes of information in human knowing that have arisen through the cybernetics of cybernetics, or second order cybernetics and its relation and relevance to other interdisciplinary approaches such as semiotics (cybersemiotics). This new development within cybernetics is a nondisciplinary approach. Through the concept of self-reference it tries to explore: the meaning of cognition and communication; our understanding of organization and information in human, artificial and natural systems; and our understanding of understanding within the natural and social sciences, humanities, information and library science, and in social practices as design, education, organisation, teaching, therapy, art, management and politics.

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Editor: Robert Trappl
Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
University of Vienna
Freyung 6
A-1010 Vienna
Austria

Aims and Scope:

Published in cooperation with the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Cybernetics and Systems serves as an international forum for the publication of the latest developments in cybernetics. The journal exposes scientists from diverse disciplines to important new methods in cybernetics, while drawing attention to novel applications of these methods to problems from many areas of research. Strictly refereed contributions present original research based on empirical verification, spanning a broad range of interests, from artificial intelligence to economics.

Readership:

Computer and information scientists, systems managers, and researchers in fuzzy systems, as well as those involved in management, robotics, linguistics, artificial intelligence, operations, and political science.

Publication Office:

Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106

For more information online:

1. Coping with social complexity, concerned with problems at all levels of socio-environmental interface, particularly with new means of coping with the increasing variety and complexity of task-situations we are likely to face.
2. Action research in management, dealing with questions of how to manage human systems so that they better serve the purposes of their human participants as well as the purposes of the larger systems of which they are parts.

• Part A, published in odd numbered months of the year, is devoted to systems and humans.
• Part B, published in even numbered months of the year, is devoted to cybernetics.
• Part C is published quarterly in February, May, August, and November.

Each paper submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics is subjected to a thorough review procedure, and the publication decision is based on the reviewers' comments. Review management is generally under the direction of an associate editor. Often, reviews take three months to five months to obtain, occasionally longer, and it takes an additional several months for the publication process.

More detailed data on the journal, contacts, etc. (with respect to each of the three parts) can be found at:

http://www.ieeesmc.org/publications/index.html

CONTACT DATA:

PART A: Systems and Humans
Editor-In-Chief: Witold Pedrycz

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Alberta
Edmonton, T6G 2G7 Canada
Tel: +1 804 924 5393
Fax: +1 804 982 2972
Email: pedrycz@ece.ualberta.ca

PART B: Cybernetics
Editor-In-Chief: Eugene Santos Jr.

Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
8000 Cummings Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Tel: (603) 646-6490
Fax: (603) 646-2277
Email: Eugene.Santos.Jr@Dartmouth.EDU

PART C: Applications and Reviews
Editor-In-Chief: Vladimir Marik

Department of Cybernetics, FEE Czech Technical University in Prague
Technicka 2
166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
Tel: (+420) 224 357 421
Fax: (+420) 224 357 224
Email: smcc-eic@labe.felk.cvut.cz

Editor-in-Chief: Frank Stowell, University of Portsmouth, UK
OEiC: Manuel Mora, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJITSA Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible publication in the International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach. The primary objective of IJITSA is to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on information systems and related upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling, engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of study and the systems approach ­ any variant ­is the main research method and philosophical stance used.

• Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS, KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others)
• Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings (personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing, office computing, corporative computing, inter-organizational computing)
• IT-based system systemic design methodologies
• IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies
• IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies
• Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological tends)
• International standards and models for IT-based systems and its relations with systems approach
• Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems
• Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based
systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human rights, global education, mobile education, global economy, interaction between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap, service systems, cultural differences, among others)
• Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for IT-based systems
• Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for IT-based systems
• Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for IT-based systems
• Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and software-systems engineering
• Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and complex systems
• Systems methodologies for basic and applied research
• Systems methodologies for consulting activities
• IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs
• IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs
• IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones)
• Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems
• Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems
• Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science for IT-based systems

The International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics focuses on studying and understanding the underlying principles of natural computation, and how these principles can be adopted or modified to extend and enrich computer science and engineering. Cybernetics is the science of communication and control in society and in individual human beings. Algorithms, techniques and theories in these fields have been successfully applied to a wide range of complex problems. IJICCÊis anÊinternational forum for publication of original papers in all disciplines of intelligent computing and cybernetics. The scope will include, but is not limited to:

• Self-adjusting systems, learning, multi-agent systems, cognitive systems
• Planning and uncertainty handling, decision theory, distributed decision making, case-based reasoning, game theory
• Data mining, cluster analysis, forecasting, discrete event dynamic systems
• Evolutionary computation, function approximation, unsupervised learning, fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory, support vector machines
• Genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, artificial immune system
• Evolutionary games, differential evolution, cultural algorithms, artificial life
• Granular computing, grid computing, DNA computing, internet computing, quantum computation, simulated annealing
• Image processing, image recognition, image segmentation
• Natural language processing, information retrieval, information fusion, intelligent search, knowledge acquisition, knowledge-based systems
• Mathematical optimization, neural nets, pattern recognition, Petri nets, semantic web, electronic commerce
• Evolvable hardware, robot programming, software development environments, system health management, intelligent transportation
• Intelligent control, flight control, nonlinear control, optimal control, predictive control, adaptive control, robust control, stochastic control, variable structure control, networked control, production control, motion control
• System identification, fault identification, flexible manipulators, robotics, manufacturing systems, hybrid systems, real-time systems, virtual reality.

Effective with 2007, Patterns became a quarterly newsletter / publication of the ASC.

Patterns publication was suspended in 2009.

Patterns included articles, interviews, book reviews, exchange of ideas and information not found in the usual education journals.

The editor was the late Barbara Dawes Vogl.

More information and downloads of the most recent Patterns issues:

http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0883-7066/.