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Cybernetics and Systems Journals
The following is an alphabetical list of journals (and newsletters) on, or related to, cybernetics and systems research. A "*" denotes the journals that are most central to the domain. Some of the addresses may no longer be up to date, though most material is fairly recent. Please send a note tocybernetica [at] vub.ac.be or  annotate this page if you would like to make an addition or correction. See also the list of cybernetics journals from the ASC, ASSA's list of Systems Journals, and the PubList's general list of journals.
Editorial address: Jean-Arcady Meyer, Editor, Adaptive Behavior, Groupe de BioInformatique, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex05, FRANCE.
Phone: (1) 43 29 12 25 ext 3623
Fax: (1) 43 29 70 85
Email: meyer[ at ]wotan.ens.fr, meyer[ at ]frulm63.bitnet.
Publisher: MIT Press
Comments: research on adaptive behavior in animals and in autonomous artificial systems, with emphasis on mechanisms that can be expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models.; emphasizes an approach complementary to traditional AI, in which basic abilities that allow animals to survive, or robots to perform their mission in unpredictable environments, will be studied in preference to more elaborated and human-specific abilities; explicitly takes into account the environmental feedback.
Editorial address: Christopher G. Langton, Santa Fe Institute, 1160 Old Pecos Trail, Suite A, Santa Fe NM 87501-4768, USA.
Publisher: MIT Press
an international journal of current research and theory with open peer commentary
Editorial address: Stevan Harnad (ed.), 20 Nassau St., Suite 240, Princeton NJ 08542, USA.
Phone: 609-921-7771
Email: harnad[ at ]clarity.princeton.edu, harnad[ at ]pucc.bitnet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Comments: Interdisciplinary journal on theoretical and experimental psychology, with emphasis on cognitive and evolutionary models. Dialog format, not afraid to deal with philosophical and theoretical issues.
Behavioral Science
now merged with Systems Research to formSystems Research and Behavioral Science
Editorial address: G. Hauske (ed. in chief), Lehrstuhl fuer Nachrichtentechnik, Technische Universitaet, Arcisstrasse 21, D-80290 Muenchen, Germany
Publisher: Springer
Editorial address: ed. AW Schwartz, Box 85, Limerick, Ireland.
Publisher: Elsevier (North Holland)
(European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems)
Editorial address: Dr. G.J. Dalenoort, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of Groningen, P.O.Box 41 096, 9701 CB Groningen, The Netherlands, Tel : +31-50-3636448 / 3636454 (or3636472), Fax : +31-50-3636304,
Email: G.J.Dalenoort[ at ]PPSW.RUG.NL
Comments:rather small journal, locally published, with systems inspired work on cognitive science and neural networks
Comments: New "magazine-like" journal close to the Santa Fe Institute. Edited by John Casti and Harold Morowitz. Contains mostly introductory and survey articles.
Comments: Australian web journal on complex systems research
a journal devoted to ...research... of systems with simple components but complex overall behavior
Editorial address: (editorial office) [old address], Center for Complex Systems research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 508 South Sixth Street, Champaign IL 61820 USA.
Email: jcs[ at ]complex.ccsr.uiuc.edu
Publisher: Complex systems Inc.
Comments: Physics journal on dynamic systems theory, complex systems theory, cellular automata and networks, etc.
Cybernetica
(Association Internationale de Cybernétique)
Editorial address: Palais des Expositions, Place André Rijckmans, B-5000 Namur , Belgium.
Phone: 081-73 52 09.
Fax: 32 - 81 - 74.29.45, 081 - 23 09 45
Email: CYB[ at ]INFO.FUNDP.AC.BE.
Comments: rather small, locally published, but long standing journal on cybernetics. May have stopped publication.
Editorial address: Soren Brier, Royal School of Librarianship, Langagervey 4, DK-9220 Aalborg Ost, Denmark.
Phone: +45-98-157922
Fax: +45-98-151042
Publisher: Soren Brier
Comments: emphasis on second-order cybernetics and semiotics (board: von Glasersfeldt, Von Foerster, Luhmann, Maturana, Braten, etc.)
(formerly 'cybernetics', translation of the Russian "Kibernetika")
Editorial address: V.S. Mikhalevich (ed.), V.M. Gluchkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev.
Publisher: Plenum
An International Journal
Editorial address: c/o R. Trappl (editor), Dep. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6, A-1010 Wien, Austria.
Email: robert@ai.univie.ac.at
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Comments: Excellent technical journal on all aspects of systems theory and cybernetics.
Emergence: A Journal of Complexity Issues in Organizations and Management
Publisher: New England Complex Systems Institute
An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Entropy and Information Studies
Editorial address: Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI, Saengergasse 25, CH-4054 Basel, Switzerland. Tel. +41 79 322 3379; Fax +41 61 302 8918
E-mail:
entropy@mdpi.org
Comments: New electronic journal, with PCP-editor F. Heylighen in its editorial board
Address: Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Adolf-Lorenz-Gasse 2, A-3422 Altenberg Donau, Austria
Email: sec @kla.univie.ac.at
Comments: interdisciplinary research on evolutionary epistemology and evolutionary systems
Comments: origins of human language, but also the evolutionary continuum of communication in general
(formerly known as Revue Internationale de Systémique - R.I.S.)
Editorial address: c/o B. Paulré
Maison des Sciences Économiques, Paris, France
Email:paulre@univ-paris1.fr
Publisher: EDP Sciences
Comment: models from systems theory, complexity, selforganization, autopoiesis, etc. applied to socio-economic systems
Publisher: Kluwer academic
Comments: interdisciplinary journal investigating fundamental concepts, principles and problems in all disciplines, with a special emphasis on approaches that transcend disciplinary boundaries. Edited at the Center "Leo Apostel", which also houses the Brussels office of PCP.
General Systems Yearbook
Editorial address: Howard T. Odum, University of Florida, Dept of Environmental Engineering, Gainesville FL 32611, USA.
Publisher: ISSS
Comments: For years the annual publication of the Int. Soc. for Gen. Sys. Res. (ISGSR, now ISSS), featuring selected publications by foundational authors. Address probably out-of-date.
Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaften
Editorial address: Helmar Frank, Institute of Cybernetics, Universität Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany.
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Comments: Official Journal of TAKIS
Editorial address: Prof. Milan Zeleny (ex. editor), Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham Univ. at Lincoln Center, CBA-626-E New York, NY 10023, U.S.A.
Publisher: IOS, Amsterdam
Editorial address: Bruce H. Krogh, Editor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213-3890, USA, Sebastian Engell, Co-Editor, FB Chemietechnik, University of Dortmund, Postfach 50 05 00, D-4600 Dortmund 50, GERMANY.
Phone: 412 268 2472
Fax: 412 268 3890
Email: krogh@galley.ece.cmu.edu
Comments: new developments in all areas of control systems technology, including, but not limited to, new sensor and actuator technologies, software and hardware for real-time computing and signal processing in, control systems, tools for computer-aided design of control systems, new approaches to control system design and implementation, experimental results, distributed architectures, intelligent control, and novel applications of control engineering methods.
Editorial address: Andrew P. Sage (editor), George Mason University, 4400 University drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA.
Phone: (703)-323-2939
Publisher: IEEE
Comments: Long-standing cybernetics journal from a "reputable" publisher. More towards technical systems science, still broad-minded
Editorial address: Prof.Dr. Gerhard Chroust, International Federation for Systems research, c/o Systemtechnik und Automation, Kepler University Linz, A-4040 Linz, Austria.
Email: GC@shannon.sea.uni-linz.ac.at
Publisher: International Federation for Systems ResearchBack issues available via FTP
Editorial address: G.J. Klir, Department of Industrial Engineering and
Systems Science, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering, State University of
New York, Binghampton, NY 13901-6000, USA.
Email:
Publisher:
Email: gensyst @ binghamton.edu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Comments: Another premiere systems science journal. Frequently technical, otherwise broad. Complexity theory, mathematical systems theory, philosophy, history, current trends.
Editorial address: Professor Peter Fleming, Department of Automatic
Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield,
Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UK
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Journal of Applied Systems Analysis
Editorial address: Peter Checkland, Dep. of Systems and Information Management, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4YX, UK.
Publisher: University of Lancaster
Comments: major focus of work developing and using Soft Systems Methodology
Editorial address: Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos,
Department of Informatics,
University of Piraeus,
80, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str.,
GR-185 34 Piraeus, Greece
Email: assinik@unipi.gr
Publisher: Cambridge International Science Publishing
Comments: devoted to the development of methodologies based on the
laws and rules of various sciences. New designs and functional
methodologies are composed for applications in electronic services,
business, operational and social, as well as biological phenomena.
Editorial address: P.M. Auger, Biomathematiques, Dept. d' Ecologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Bourgogne, Batiment "Mirande", BP 138, 21004 Dijon Cedex, France.
Publisher: World Scientific
Editorial address: Joseph F. Traub (ed.), Computer Science department, Columbia University, New York City NY 10027.
Publisher: Academic Press (USA)
Comments: emphasis on mathematical and computational complexity.
Editorial address: Eric Bonabeau, Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA,
Email: bonabeau@santafe.edu.
Publisher: Hermes, Paris
Comments: new interdisciplinary journal in the complex adaptive systems tradition, with PCP editor Cliff Joslyn in its editorial board.
Comments:the first peer-reviewed journal on memes, freely available on the Web, sponsored by the Principia Cybernetica Project.
formerly: Journal of Social and Biological Structures
Editorial address: Dr. Paul Levinson (Editor), Connected Education, Inc., 65 Shirley Lane, White Plains, NY 10607, USA.
Phone: 914-428-8766
Email: PLevinson@cinti.com
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Comments: broad-minded, interdisciplinary journal concerned with analogies and relationships between biological
mechanisms such as evolution, natural selection, and individual
development, and social activities such as technology, economics,
politics, ideologies, literature, art, customs, and culture. Similar to "World Futures" in its coverage, but more focus on (socio)biological mechanisms, and less on holism.
the International Journal of Cybernetics and General Systems
Editorial address: B.H. Rudall (ed.), Craig yr Halen, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd LL59 5HD, UK.
Phone: (0248) 71 26 36
Publisher: MCB University Press
Comments: Excellent British journal of systems science. Sometimes technical, otherwise broad.
Kybernetyka
Editorial address: Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, 252207 Kiev 207, Ukraine.
Mathematical Systems Theory
an International Journal of mathematical computing theory
Editorial address: A.L. Rosenberg (ed.), Comp. and inf. Sc., Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst MA 01003, USA.
Publisher: Springer Verlag NY
Publisher: KluwerComments:interdisciplinary research in mathematics, physics, engineering and life sciences; system and information-theoretic approaches dealing with control,
filtering, communication, pattern recognition, chaotic dynamics, memory and cooperative behaviour in open complex systems
Selection: molecules, genes, memes
Editorial address: Eörs Szathmáry (editor in chief), Collegium Budapest, Szentharáromság u. 2, H-1014 Budápest, Hungáry
Email: selection@zeus.colbud.hu
Publisher: Acádemiá Kiádo
Comments: new journal about selection of replicators at different levels
Sistemica
Journal of the inter and transdisciplinary management of complexity
Editorial address: R.A. Rodrigues-Ulloa, Andean Institute of Systems -IAS, PO Box 18-0680 , Lima 18, Peru.
Publisher: IAS
Comments: In English and Spanish, Latin American Journal of systems theory . Does not seem to exist anymore!
Editorial address: Johannes Schmidt, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, Postfach 100 131, D - 33501 Bielefeld,
Tel.:49-(0)521-106-4623 / 3998, Fax: 49-(0)521-106-6020.
Email: Soziale.Systeme@post.uni-bielefeld.de
Publisher: Leske & Budrich
Comments: In German, English and French; systems theoretical work in sociology, applications of general systems concepts (inc. cognition and difference) to society, interaction and organization .
System Dynamics Society
Editorial address: Julia S. Pugh, Executive Director, 49 Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA 01772, USA.
Comments: Applications of dynamical theory to social systems modeling.
Systeme
Interdisciplinäre Zeitschrift für systemtheoretisch orientierte Forschung und Praxis in den Humanwissenschafte
Editorial address: Systeme, Postfach 171, A-1013 Wien, Austria
Publisher: Österreichische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für System Therapie und System Studien, ÖAS - Verlag, Leopoldsgasse 51/5, A-1020 Wien, Austria
(formerly
Systems Practice )
Editorial address: Prof. Robert Flood, Department of Management Systems and Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK.
Publisher: Plenum
Comments: application of "critical systems thinking" to improving work and organization
official journal of the international federation for systems research
Editorial address: Prof. Michael C. Jackson. The Business School, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
Email: m.c.jackson@hubs.hull.ac.uk
Publisher: Wiley
Comments: another central journal for the systems theory community; emphasis on social science, management, psychology and systems thinking, less on mathematics and technology, sometimes with reference to Miller's living systems theory. Focus on interdisciplinarity, and generalizability of results across levels. Arose from the merger of "Systems Research" and "Behavioral Science"
Editorial address: L. Johnson, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent CT2 7PE, UK.
Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Systems Science
Editorial address: Prof. Zdzislaw Bubnicki (editor), Institute of Control and Systems Engineering, Wroclaw Technical University, 50-372 Wroclaw, ul. Janizewskiego 11/17, Poland.
Publisher: OR RAN, PKin, 00-901 Warszawa, Poland.
Comment: general systems theory, theoretical problems of analysis, modelling, design and control of systems (with particular reference to large-scale systems), and their applications to industrial, information, management, socio-economic and biological systems.
(see also TIS Web)
The newsletter : American Society for Cybernetics
Editorial address: Frederic Steier or Barry Clemson (editors), Center for Cybernetic Studies in Complex Systems, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA.
Phone: (804) 683 4558
Publisher: American Society for Cybernetics
Comments: address probably out of date
Editorial address: Maria Sagi (Managing editor), Uri u.49, H-1014 Budapest, Hungary.
Fax/tel: 36-1-156 9457,
Publisher: Gordon and Breach
Comments: Edited by Ervin Laszlo, board includes Ralph Abraham, Bob Artigiani, Bela Banathy, Peter Allen, George Kampis, Vilmos Csanyi, Varela. Contents: general patterns of change and development in nature as well as society; articles, short communications, and book reviews relating to evolutionary processes in all fields of science, with special attention to multidisciplinary, systemic and holistic approaches.
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