Affiliated Organizations

The American Society for Cybernetics maintains affiliations with multiple other professional and scientific organizations including the following:

AAAS

The American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Triple A-S” (AAAS), is the world’s largest general scientific society, publisher of the journal Science. AAAS makes provision for affiliate societies. As of 2003, the AAAS affiliate population included 271 societies and academies of science, serving more than 10 million members. This set of affiliates makes AAAS the world’s largest federation of scientific and engineering societies. The ASC is an affiliate of AAAS. The current representatives are Lou Kauffman and Ely Dorsey.

ISSS

The ASC and the International Society for Systems Sciences (ISSS) have a collaborative and mutually supportive relationship.

“The ISSS is a broadly based professional society of scientists, philosophers, educators, futurists, humanists, business and policy practitioners, artists, writers, and many other professionals from diverse endeavors, who are drawn together by a common interest: understanding and interacting systemically with reality.” (taken from the ISSS Website)

The ASC is the sponsor and organizer of a Special Integration Group (SIG) on Environmental Systems within ISSS. This SIG made its debut with a session on “Environmental Justice and Social Transformation” at the 44th Annual ISSS Conference immediately following the World Congress of Systems Sciences in Toronto, July 2000.

Historical records

On October 10, 2026, the ASC decided to stop being a member of the IFSR.