PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME AND CALL FOR PAPERS

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

MM. Daniel DUBOIS (Belgique), Maître de Conférences, Université de Liège.

Haneef A. FATMI (United Kingdom), University of London, Director Cybernetics Research Group and President British Cybernetics Society.

Charles FRANCOIS (Argentine), Président honoraire de l'Association Argentine de Théorie Générale des Systèmes et Cybernétique.

Helmar FRANK (République Fédérale d'Allemagne), Directeur de l'Institut de Cybernétique à l'Université de Paderborn, Président de l'Académie Internationale des Sciences (San Marino).

Georges LASKER (Canada), Professor of Computer Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.

Adelin MATHIEU (Belgique), Député Permanent de la Province de Namur.

Edmond NICOLAU (Roumanie), Professeur retraité de l'Institut Polytechnique de Bucarest.

Marcel POCHET (Belgique), Directeur Général du Bureau Economique de la Province de Namur.

Jean RAMAEKERS (Belgique), Président de l'Association Internationale de Cybernétique, Professeur à l'Institut d'Informatique de Namur.

Robert VALLEE (France), Professeur à l'Université Paris Nord.

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Rue Rempart de la Vierge, 8

B-5000 Namur

Belgique - Belgium

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INFORMATIONS

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FOREWORD

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

LIST OF THE SYMPOSIA

Gavril ACALUGARITEI (Romania)

• Simulation of Cell’s Control Mechanisms (F. ADILOVA, B. HIDIROV, M. SAIDALIEVA)
• Researches Concerning the Stress and the Aging in Systems of Cell Cultures by an Original Method (N. HANU, M. RACHITA)
• Oxidative Stress and Aging (C. RUSU, F. RUSU) - Cybernetic Mechanisms of Stress Evolution (A. CRISTEA)
• Multidimensional Network of the Ontogenesic and Gerontogenesic Processes (G. ACALUGARITEI)
• Cybernetic Aspects of Learning According to Age (I. TURCU, G. ACALUGARITEI)
• Senescence - The Result of a Statistic Process (C. GRECU, L. GHETEA, L. OLARIU, L. GAVRILA)
• Cybernetic Models of Ageing (G.I. PRADA) - Cybernetical Mechanisms of Evolution (A. RESTIAN)
• Biopsychological Aspects of the Geriatric Recuperation (C. BOGDAN).

Greg ANDONIAN (Canada)

• Computers in Architecture : The Current Issues (G. ANDONIAN)
• Prairie - ARCHNET : Spinning a Web (D. SANDALL, B. R. SINCLAIR)
• Computer aided Design in the Malaysian Architectural Firm (A. LUDDIN, S-M. SYED-MOHARAD)
• The Role of the Computers in Synchronous Collaborative Design (W.J. JABI, T.W. HALL)
• CAD in Design Communication Education (B. WARDEN, D. BATIE)
• Computer Application : Endorsement of Confusion in Architectural Education (T.A. POSTERO, T.E. MACIURZYNSKI)
• Construction Internet Opportunities (L. MEDEK)
• GECADI : A Creative Supporting Sketching Tool for Generic Layout Generation (H.P.S. SNIJDER, R. DARU).

Evelyne ANDREEWSKY (France)

• Biological Metaphors for Artificial Cognitive Systems Evolution (J. BIONDI, O. MICHEL)
• Auto-organisation et droit (D. BOUCIER)
• Métaphores fonctionnelles en psychiatrie (X. FARGEAS, E. ANDREEWSKY)
• Autopoiesis, Dynamics and Chronic Illness : Clinical Implications of Second-Order Autopoiesis (K.B. KREITMAN, T.M. McCOMBS)
• Stratégies d’adaptation à l’agression des systèmes biologiques psycho-cognitifs et sociaux (E. NUNEZ)
• Organisation des activités cérébrales dans les désordres de l’esprit : quelles métaphores ? (M. TIMSIT)
• Classification of Random Signals by Neural Networks (I. VAJDA, A. VESELY)
• Modelling Political Culture of Local Communities in the Process of Transformation of Czech Society (Z. VAJDOVA)
• Emergence of Curcial Innovation in Biological and Trans-Biological Evolution (R. GALAR).

Ebad BANISSI (United Kingdom)

• Shift of Visual Domains for Visual Realism in the raster displays (E. BANISSI)
• Effects of Changing Environments on the Behaviour-Space (E. BANISSI, S. SINGH)
• Changing the Representation Domain for Characters (F. HUSSAIN)
• Changing Face of the Third World Scientific Activities (F. OSAREH)
• Electronics Data Interchange in the Construction Industries (F. KHOSROWSHAHI).

Ali BEHROOZ, Sadri GILANI (United Kingdom)

• Identification and Formalisation of the Knowledge of Strategic Decision Making in Small/Medium Size Exporting Company
• A Knowledge Elicitor’s Exercise (E. AFSHAR, A. BEHROOZ)
• Cybernetic Factors in Health Care (J. ANDERSON, A. BEHROOZ, M. RAMMRATTAN)
• NHS : Dream, Nightmare, Reality (J. ANDERSON, A. BEHROOZ, M. RAMRATTAN)
• Identification of Contributing Parameters. An Information Systems Strategy for Saudi Arabian Education (A. ATA, A. BEHROOZ, S. GILANI)
• An Integrated Framework for Open System Communication Using Competitive Information-and-Legacy System Brokers to Enable Efficient Cross-Functional Data Exchange Within First and 2nd Order Control Models of Organisational Reengineering (A. BADII)
• Distributed Performance Support Systems (N. BEACHAM, A. TONGE, D. GALLAGHER)
• The Transition Channel : A Framework for Managing Change (A. BEHROOZ, G. MARSHALL)
• A Knowledge Based System to Improve the Understanding of Selection Interview Decision Making (L. BENSON)
• A Cybernetics Approach to Leadership (S. GILANI)
• An Intelligent Management Control System Concept (S. GILANI)
• Knowledge Transfer or Meaning Creation ? Some Issues for Knowledge Elicitation across Cultural Boundaries (A.D. JANKOWICZ)
• A Novel Method for Knowledge Elicitation and the Construction of the Resulting Knowledge Base (G. MARSHALL, A. BEHROOZ)
• Some Likely Effects of the Introduction of the Information Super-Highway (G. MARSHALL)
• Managing Technological Change (S. ROBERTS, I. SHARRATT)
• DSS to Support Opportunity Identification (R. ROLFE, A. BADII)
• The « New » Role of Information Management in Successful Business Process Reengineering Initiatives (G. ROUSHAN - BAKHTI, F. HEWITT)
• Non-destructive Testing of Fibre Composite Materials Using Vector Formed Images (R. SAHANDI)
• Infra-structure Support for Multimedia Communication (R. SAHANDI)
• An Intelligent Way Through The Learning Process (J. SPENCER, A.L. RAILTON)
• Cultural Considerations in Securing Cybernetic Systems (A. WARMAN)
• Kreitman’s Conjecture and the Law of Requisite Heterarchy (K.B. KREITMAN)
• Situations Paradoxales au sens de Kaldor et Processus Dynamiques (P. COUVREUR, G. PAGANO)
• Adoptive Hypertext Networks that Learn the Common Semantics of their Users (J. BOLLEN)
• Application of the World-Wide Web for the Development and Publication of a Systems Encyclopedia (F. HEYLIGHEN)
• Multi Media et l’Autoroute de l’Information. Quelques problèmes éthiques et risques pour la société (M. D’UDEKEM GEVERS)
• The Application of Cybernetics in the Development of Enterprise Groups’Education (Q.T.LI).

Marianne BELIS (France)

• La Reconnaissance vectorielle de l’écriture manuscrite (M. BELIS)
• L’établissement du diagnostic médical comme reconnaissance des formes (A. CRISTEA, C.N. ZAHARIA, A. MUTIU)
• Reconnaissance des Configurations Dynamiques par les réseaux neuronaux (J.C. LEVY)
• Brain Informational Order/Disorder and the principles of Cerebral Heuristic Activity (I. MORARU)
• Reconnaissance des formes abstraites (E. NICOLAU).

Nicolae BULZ (Romania)

• The Reflexivity Game of the Tried Security - Re-Structuring - Transition (G. ILIE)
• Les distributions de Laurent Schwartz dans les modèles mathématiques des systèmes cybernétiques (E. OTLACAN, P. OTLACAN)
• Knowledge and Decisions in Health Modelling the Dynamic of Epistemic States (I. MOISIL - BARBAT)
• Selective Decryptability of an Encrypted Message (A. RENVALL - M. ANDRASIU)
• Special Signature Schemes (E. VAN HEIJST)
• The Theoretical Problem of Secrets Sharing (M. ANDRASIU)
• Social System - Expert System in an Interdisciplinary Approach to Operative Actions (G. BADANAC)
• Cognitive Systems Dependent on their Own Decisional Equilibrium (N. BULZ).

Armand CARON (France)

• Learning Mechanisms for Three Dimentionnal Declarative Modelling (F. BELABDELLI, P. LELASSEUX, D. PLEMENOS, K. TAMINE)
• Decision Making and Optimization of an Automated Production System by Means of Connexionnist Networks (J. BERTHELEMY, D. MENEXIADIS, A. CARON)
• Un modèle de mémorisation appliqué à la vision artificielle (S.J. BEZERRA, Y. CHERRUAULT)
• Sur un algorithme de synthèse de fonction booléenne par un réseau neuronal (J-C. CREPUT, A. CARON, M. QUENTEL)
• Intelligent Human Operative Memory System Model : Program Imitation (S.J. MRCHEV).

Francis COLLOT (France)

• Un espace-temps fractal et bien ordonné (F. COLLOT)
• La cascade fractale : de la physique à la conscience (J.P. GAREL)
• Anthropic Cosmological Principle and Philosophy of Evolutionary Cybernetic (A. JDANKO)
• L’espace-temps et l’ontostat (D. LEPINARD)
• Chronotopic Logic (M. MALATESTA)
• La courbure négative de notre espace tridimensionnel (R. SAUMONT)
• Sur l’existence d’un espace-temps biologique (L-M. VINCENT)
• Evolutions hyperboliques et feed-back (F. MEYER)
• Modèle topologique de l’espace-temps du vivant (J. COSTAGLIOLA)
• Structures dissipatives et émergence de la conscience (A. DAMBRICOURT).

Daniel DUBOIS (Belgique)

• Researching of Informational Processes in Problem-Oriented Systems (V.M. EGYPTO, A.Y. SPIRIN, A.V. KOLOMIETS)
• The Possibilities of Mathematical Modelling of Postal Traffic Database (J. GARADI)
• A Real Life Software for the Commercial Dispatching of Big Jets (J. DE RYCKER, O. ANDERSSON)
• High-Level Modelling with THOR-Nets (S. SCHOF, M. SONNENSCHEIN, R. WIETING).
• Type II.Fuzzy Systems Models (B. TURKSEN) -
• Fuzzy Goals in the Situated Automata Approach (P. CAMARGO SILVA)
• Methods for Functional Restoration of Automata Behavior (A. A. SYTNIK)
• Emergent Group Morphology on Foraging Environments by Autonomous Agents (M. KUBO)
• Learning Hierarchical Controllers for Situated Agents (O. SIGAUD)
• Neural Artificial Intelligent System (T. AE, K. SAKAI, T. TOYOSAKI)
• Une extension collective du calcul des propositions (D. MOERENHOUT).
• The Plankalkuel as the First Algorithmic Language, Especially for KI (K. ZUSE)
• Computing Universe (Rechnender Raum) (K. ZUSE)
• The HYPERINCURSION : a General Method for Modelling and Control Systems by Time Feedforward (D. DUBOIS)
• Definition of the 3rd Cybernetics from the Meaning as an Aristotle’s Final Cause by Hyperincursion (D. DUBOIS)
• Emergence, Where Matter and Mind Fall into the Same Pattern (A. MINAI)
• Incursive Control Applied to Information Systems Development (N. CALLAOS, B. DE CALLAOS).
• Naturalising Cognition : Material or Formal Causality ? (G. VAN DE VIJVER)
• Conditioning as the Basis of Cognition and Adaptative Behaviour (F. ORTEGA, F. J. VICO, M. GONZALEZ and J. JEREZ)
• Use of Natural Languages in Modelling Evolutionary Processes (K. MATSUNO)
• Metacomputation of Language Hierarchies (R. GLUCK, A. KLIMOV)
• Third Order Cybernetics : Logical Completeness in the Design and Construction of Complex Systems (J. L.R CHANDLER)
• Quantum Mechanical Model of Evolution and Consciousness : part I (P. MARCER)
• Quantum Mechanical Model of Evolution and Consciousness : part II (P. MARCER)
• Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems - Two Sides of the Same Coin (K. KRATKY).
• Harmonic Analysis of Prigogine Dynamical Systems (F. PICHLER)
• Phase Diagram of a Generalized Diffusion-Limited Aggregation Model (N. VANDEWALLE, M. AUSLOOS)
• Utilisation de la morphologie de la surface caractéristique de Van der Waals, et étude du point critique de transition de phase liquide-vapeur (J. BONNARDOT, P. SABATIER, C. LESCHI)
• Design of Visco-elastic Material by Load History (I. LARSEN)
• Contrôle catastrophique du développement d’un fromage (P. SABATIER)
• Analyse fractale de pédigrees (P.-M. GUIGAL)
• Fractal Generation by Means of Attributed Graph Grammars (E.J. GRABSKA)
• A Mathematical Model of a Mediterranean Ecosystem in a Post-fire Stage (J.L. USO, J.A. LOPEZ, A. BALAGUER).
• Undisciplinary Oriented Problem-solving Approach (L. MARILENA)
• Choosing between System Theory and Model Theory in Interdisciplinary Research (L. MARILENA)
• Command and Control in Evolutionary Systems : a Philosophical View 1995 (G.L. FARRE)
• Control in Non-artificial Systems. Where Does it Come from ? (E. SCHWARZ)
• Recursive and Incursive Modelling of Partial Boolean Tables for Computer Aided Systems Control (A. MASCIA, D.M. DUBOIS)
• An Application of Recursive and Incursive Modelling in Computer Aided Systems Control (A. MASCIA, D.M. DUBOIS).
• La théorie du signal hyperfini : application à la commande de systèmes (J-P. FRACHET, S. LAMPERIERE)
• An Example of the Intelligent Controller (O. TEZAK)
• Simulation and Optimization of Different Control Strategies to Improve the Performance of a Tandem Cold Rolling Mill (J-L. GOSSELIN, M. REMY, L. CHEFNEUX, P. MARIAME)
• Identification of Non-linear Systems through Minimization of an Output Least Squares Criterion (N. POINT, A. VANDE WOUVER, M. REMY)
• Simulation of Distributed Parameter Systems Using DSS/2
• A Method of Lines Software Package (A. VANDE WOUVER, P. SAUCEZ, W.E. SCHIESSER)
• Evolution of Communication Protocols on Industrial Local Area Networks; the Open System : MMS (ISO IS9506) from MAP 3.0 (J. MICHIELS, D. HERMESSE).
• Kron’s Modelling Methodology in a Modern Context (K. BOWDEN)
• Computerized Predictive and Hierarchical Mathematical Model of a Complex Mechanical Systems, Part I : Decoupled, Piecewise Linear, Mathematical Model of a Robot Manipulator (S. TARASIEWICZ, P. MARCOTTE)
• Computerized Predictive and Hierarchical Mathematical Model of a Complex Mechanical Systems, Part II : Dendritic Structure as the Specific Knowledge (S. TARASIEWICZ, P. MARCOTTE)
• A Study of Normal Force under the Difference of Specific Cutting Resistance in Lathe Chatter (Y. IWATA)
• Du 1er au 14ème Congrès, la formologie et la morphocinétique de l’ingénieur F.M. GARCIN, deux concepts toujours d’actualité (Y. LOGE)
• Meta-modélisation : modélisation des systèmes de représentation. Application à la représentation des systèmes automatisés de production (F. COUFFIN, J-P. FRACHET)
• Towards Systemic Based Automation Engineering (F. MAYER, J.F. PETIN, P. LHOSTE, G. MOREL).
• Cooperative Decision Support System Example for a Regional Council (A.M. ALQUIER, P. ZARATE)
• On the Indirect Identification of Linear Systems (B. GRZYWACZ)
• A Proposal for a Non-stationary Low-pass Filter (R. KASZYNSKI)
• The Criterion of the Integrity of Complex Systems for Modelling and Control (S. V. KIRPICH)
• Numerical Method of System Resolution with Uncertainty (E.Y. VILLACAMPA, J-L. USO-DOMENECH, P. VICES MACIA, M. LIORET CLIMENT)
• The Process Avoiding Collision at Sea as a Nonlinear Programming Task (J. LISOWSKI)
• Analytic Methods for Controlling Dynamical Systems (A. LOSKUTOV)
• Cybernetics and Modelling of Complex System (M. KLJAJIC).

Haneef FATMI (United Kingdom)

Brian WARBURTON (United Kingdom) Co-chairman

• Application of a New Technique for Cybernetics (J.G. WOYKA, H. FATMI)
• The Meaning of Artificial Intelligence (M. ROE)
• A Computational Deconvolution Model for Human Consciousness (B. WARBURTON)
• Towards a Stable Global Economy Based on Three Geographical Economic Centres (B. WARBURTON)
• The Hameroff Model for a Cognitive Machine (P. HARDWICK, H. FATMI)
• A Definition of Cognitive Machines for Cybernetics (P. HARDWICK, H. FATMI)
• An Implementation of Cyber-Neurons Based on SS7 (P. BEAUMONT, H. FATMI)
• Application of Artificial Intelligence Determined Real Time Controls to SS7 Networks (P. BEAUMONT, H. FATMI)
• Eliciting Long Term Memory for Neural Simulators (I.E. RUSSELL, H. FATMI)
• Computational Modelling of the Mammation Cortex (A. OLIVIER)
• Cognating the Cognator (A.J. MAYNE) - Cybernetics, Complexity and nonlinear economics (A.J. MAYNE)
• Hybrid Systems for Complex Decision Making (Y. DUAN)
• Process Improvement Goals for Cybernetic Machines (F.B. KHALAFALLA, K. EL-EMAM)
• Requirements Engineering Success For Cybernetic Machines (F.B. KHALAFALLA, K. EL-EMAM)
• Reliability and Software Process Assessments for Cybernetic Machines (K. EL-EMAM, F.B. KHALAFALLA)
• A Method for Developing Subjective Instruments (K. EL-EMAM, F.B. KHALAFALLA)
• Dialogue Structuring for Cybernetic Machines (R. SUNG)
• Meta-Architecture for Cybernetic Machines (R. SUNG, F.B. KHALAFALLA)
• Developing Fuzzy Systems for Cybernetic Machines (A.F. DEEN, H. FATMI)
• The Origins of Fuzzy Systems (A.F. DEEN, H.A. FATMI)
• Brain Modeling Using Eccles Hypothesis and Feedforward Neural Nets (J. AHMAD, F. DEEN, H. FATMI)
• Cybernetic Model as a Neural Predictor (J. AHMAD, F. DEEN, H. FATMI)
• A Cognitive Approach to Text Compression (H.U. KHAN, H.A. FATMI)
• Data Distribution in Self-configuring Distributed Systems : A Cybernetics Approach (A. MAHMOOD, H.U. KHAN, H. FATMI)
• Dynamic Data Reallocation Strategies (A. MAHMOOD, H.U. KHAN, H. FATMI)
• Human Communication in a Futures Factory (M.R. FARDOOM, H. FATMI)
• Operational Theories for Distributed Factory Information Systems (M.R. FARDOOM, H. FATMI)
• Representing Action Sentences through Event Structures (A. LEE, P. BURRELL)
• Anaphora Representation in Discourse Processing (A. AIKUTA, P. BURRELL)
• Neural Network Control of a Robot Arm (P. BURRELL)
• « ... which reminds me ... » Associative Memory, Culture and Hypertext (C. HUTCHISON)
• Modelling Business Process Re-engineering using System Simulators (T.C. GOH, H. FATMI)
• Could a Machine Teach Itself to Walk ? (M. SMITH).

Vladimir FOMICHOV (Russia)

• From Ideas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to the Discovery in the Theory and Methods of Teaching (V. FOMICHOV, O. FOMICHOVA)
• Emotionally - Imaginative Teaching Children Foreign Languages as a Highly Effective Realization of a General Approach to Conflicts-Free Teaching (O. FOMICHOVA)
• Information Science and Information Technologies in Education : Some Experiences and Perspectives in Primary and Middle School (C. ALBERTI, E. BORROMEO, P. CAROSI, F. CELI, M-R. LAGANA, E. MORREALE)
• La conception par objets d’un tutoriel d’initiation à la programmation basée sur l’interaction multi-agent et le raisonnement par cas (F. PARAGUACU, C. INGHILTERRA)
• A Hypermedia Environnement for Lexical Acquisition (G. TURRINI, L. PECCHIA, E. LANZETTA)
• Un regard Cybernétique sur l’imaginaire et l’enseignement (Y. BERTRAND)
• The Generalized Syllogistic Hypergraph of Universal Knowledge, Theoretical Basis of Achieving Artificial Intelligence Similar to the Human Brain (I. MIRITA)
• New Methods and New Reasons for Teaching Formal Systems in Philosophy Mathematics and Sciences (G. BOYD, V. ZEMAN)
• L’auto-apprentissage guide en maternelle (N. DE RYCKER-DANDOY)
• Vivre l’apprentissage plutôt que le surbir (J. COULON).

Helmar FRANK (Germany)

• Malfermaj antaùrimarkigoj : Epistemologia kaj semiotika karakterizado de la komunikadkibernetiko kaj ties brancoj - Fakaj terminaroj el kibernetika pedagogio por automata tradukado (C. MINNAJA)
• Association Learning of Semantic Structures (M. WETTLER)
• Interlingo de formalaj kaj pragmataj aspektoj den la evoluigo de instrusistemoj (K. WELTNER)
• Teoria pravigo kaj generaligo de klasika preskribo por la ripetadofteco en instruprogramoj (H. FRANK)
• Relation between Satisfaction and Success at School (E. ZAHN)
• Automata skemigo de lernejaj tekstoj (C. MINNAJA)
• Spertoj de hungarlandaj komputteknikaj konkuroj (J. GARADI)
• Komunikadkibernetikaj instruenhavoj en polaj privataj universitataj klerigejoj (E. JARMARK)
• Informaciestetikaj kaj interlingvistikaj instigoj al la evoluo de la komunikadkibernetiko (H. FRANK)
• Progresoj de la modernaj komunikiloj : de la bild-diskedo al CDROM (E. JARMARK)
• ... (M. LANSKY).

Bernd HORNUNG (Germany)

• Technology Assessment of New Information Technologies - A Sociocybernetic Evolutionary Perspective (B. HORNUNG)
• Genesis of Chipcard - Technology in Health Care - An Actor-Oriented Approach to Technology Assessment in Medical Informatics (C. STARK, R. SCHMIEDE)
• The Impact of Electronic Information Systems on Medical Practice and Perception (K.F. KALTENBORN)
• New Dimensions for Electronic Security in the Development of Smart Card Systems (H. FARROUKH)
• Patient-Doctor Interaction in Internet : How to Describe, Assess and Improve (G.W. HIMMELMANN)
• The Social Shaping of a Technological Product, A Case Study in Computerized Health Cards (N.T. NGUYEN)
• Legal Aspects of Medical Data Cards - Implications of a New Technology (Y. POULLET).

Alexis V. JDANKO (Israël)

• Evolutional Networks (G. ACALUGARITEI)
• Sociocultural Evolution : Towards the Merging of Material and Informational Evolution (B.R. HORNUNG)
• Le nouveau futurisme (Philosophie - Art - Société) (A. BALDRATI)
• Le concept d’entropie généralisée en théorie de l’évolution complexifiante (F. COLLOT)
• The Immanent End of the Present Mode of Evolution on Earth (R.L. COREN)
• A Quantitative Cybernetic Theory Establishing that Cosmic, Organic, Cultural and Technological Evolutions are a Single, Continuous Process (R.L. COREN)
• History, Present and Future (A Cybernetic View) (SARNOVSKY)
• Project Ceti or Seti Viewed from the Evolutionary Cybernetics Angle (A.V. JDANKO)
• Bases de données et fils d’Abraham (R.F. POSWICK).

Roger JEAN (Canada)

• Honologie et lois élémentaires de croissance (R.V. JEAN)
• De la Cybernétique à la Vie Artificielle (P. GOUJON)
• Limites des modélisations Post-Cybernétiques (P. GOUJON)
• Diagnosis Based on Uncertain or Unknown Data (I. RATKO, S. BNEDIKT)
• A Special Fitting Problem in Biomedicine (I. RATKO)
• Control Network of Giant Gap Gene In Drosophila Embryo (A.K. SAHA)
• Rétention et rappel à court terme : interprétations de résultats théoriques et de simulations (J. BETTA).

George E. LASKER (Canada)

• The New World Order : For Whom and for What ? (G. ANDONIAN)
• Some Factors Influencing Sociopolitical Developments in Contemporary World (N. CAILAOS)
• Effects of Local Economic and Financial Developments on Globalization (V. SIMUNEK)
• Measuring Synergistic Effects of Local and Global Developments on Quality of Human Life (G.E. LASKER)
• Synergistic Aspects of State Governance (G. FARRE)
• Ecological Impact and Synergistic Effects Assessment in Accomplishment Processes (T. LOZOWICKA STUPNICKA)
• The System of Instrumental Civilization (V.H. ADAMKIEWICZ)
• Effects of Information Technologies and Democratization of Accessibility of Information (H. NIGMATOV, Z.I. ADILOVA)
• Human Adaptation to a Qualitatively Novel Environment : Synergetical Aspects of Transition Period (A. DREIMANIS).

Denis MURPHY (Canada)

• Du texte en prétexte (M. VIERIA)
• Le temps événementiel (M. NARANJO)
• Merging and Emergine Effects of Time in Cyberspace (D. MURPHY)
• Upon the Complexity of the Real (Social) Life (Cyberspace and Mixed Systems) (N. BULZ)
• Indeterminacy to Applying Law to Electronic Communication Systems (L.F. YOUNG).

Edmond NICOLAU (Romania)

• L’analyse des évolutions typiques des épidémies virales de Sida à l’aide des réseaux neuronales (AC. CRISTEA, C. CERNESCU, C.N. ZAHARIA, A. MUTIU)
• Neuronal Ensemble Organization as a Universal Principle of the Nervous System Function Reliability and Plasticity (O.G. CHORAYAN - G.A. KOURAEV)
• Integration of Neural Networks into a Psychical Model (V. ENATESCU)
• Optimization of Dynamical Parameters for Sigmoidal Neural Adaptative Control System (J. HAN, S. SINNE)
• Les processus de décision et leurs perturbations (J-Cl. LEVY)
• Intelligent techniques based on Genetic Evolution with Applications to Neural Network Weights Optimization (M. Gh. NEGOITA, D. MIHAILA)
• Neural Networks Implications in Behavioural Artificial Intelligence (M. Gh. NEGOITA, F. FAGARASAN).

Aldo NIGRO (Italy)

• Self Controlled Interactive Learning Systems : 1967 - 1997. A Communication Approach to Education (D. STEG)
• Myocintetic Training for Learning (L. CALAMIA) - Social Setting and the Technology of Learning (A. CARRA)
• Postural Learning (S. CIAPPINA)
• The Tutor as Resonance Teacher (G. CREA)
• Human Light : Learning for Resonance (A. NIGRO)
• Cyber School (L. NUZZOLO)
• Chromatic Habitat for Learning (F. POLITO)
• The Connection for Learning (R. SCHIRO)
• From Whipping to Actracting (S. TOGNETTI)
• Resonance Learning in Fable (C. URSINO)
• ... (M. PINTIMALLI)
• System Engineering of the Talent Development (Y. ZHONGHAI).

P. QUERINJEAN (Belgium)

• Chaos, period-doubling Reversals and Predictability (L. ANDREY)
• Chaos, Divina Proportio and the Origin of Life (J. BAIVERLIN)
• Pathology : Self-Organization Phenomena and Coherent Excitation (A. DELINIK)
• Traitement de l’information et prédictibilité boursière et financière (F. DEMARTHE)
• Viruses as a Genetic Information Systems (GIS) give a new insight to AIDS (P. HERMAN, P.J. QUERINJEAN)
• Synchronicity, Information Processing and Mind-Body Interaction (E.M. INSINNA)
• A Systemic Approach of the Information (P. QUERINJEAN)
• Les découvertes du Dr. R-G. Hamer et la théorie du Chaos (M. STRAUS).

Eric SCHWARZ (Suisse)

• Transdisciplinary Unified Theory : the Emerging Promise of the Holistic Systems Approach (E. LASZLO)
• Third Order Cybernetics : A Systematic Language, Notation and Logic of Natural Systems (J.L.R. CHANDLER)
• The Limits and the Borders of Information Flow in Drucker
• Banathy Type Systems (F.W. PRZYSTUPA)
• Information Technology and Evolution (M. BAZEWICZ)
• Théorie Cognitive de l’information (G. PINSON)
• Cybernetics : its goals and limits (N. LARA)
• How Should Intelligence be understood (L. MENDOZA)
• Autonomie et construction de la réalité (G. MAUGÉ)
• A Heuristical Approach of the Human Mind (J. DOUCHAMPS)
• A Proposal for a Holistic Meta-Physical and Meta-Logical Metalanguage (E. SCHWARZ)
• Systems Science as Participating to Designing for, the continuity of Evolution (G. ANDERSEN)
• The Creative Universe (A.T. MINAI) - AI Methodological Role in the Philosophy of Science (V.M. BARLIBA).

Jiri SLECHTA (United Kingdom)

• On the Importance of the Acceleration Term for the Population Dynamics (J. SLECHTA)
• The three Stages or Levels of Response (M.F.H. ROE)
• On the Hybrid Network Theory for the Artificial Brain or the Hybrid Computer or Multicomputer Systems and Antisystems (J. PAVELKA)
• Model of Hemiplegic Gait Behaviour Influenced by Electrical Stimulation (M. KLJAJIC)
• Some Questions in Thermodynamic Modelling (D. COLLINS)
• An Interactive Economy (R. MERTENS)
• On Some Related Aspects of the Law (V. KNAPP)
• On Cybernetico-Physical Theory of the World Community (J. SLECHTA)
• An Alternative View of Taxonomic Ressemblance or Similarity (J. PIK)
• La population en tant que système cybernétique à réaction suivant l’état (M. BALACI)
• Population et alimentation, comme un système cybernétique (M. BULGARU, P. PELIN, G. LACATUSU)
• The Relation Between Nutrition and Health Condition of Population in a Cybernetic System (M. BULGARU, S. BULGARU).

Doreen STEG (USA)

• A Formal Approach to Psychodynamics (A.G. GRAPPONE)
• The Judiciary as a Cybernetic System : The Case of the United States Labor Law, 1800-1850 (H. HURVITZ)
• New Development in Science and Technology Education in Early Childhood : Enhancing Reflective Thinking/Doing. A Cybernetic Approach (A. LEVITA)
• An Integrated Model of Prefrontal Cortex Processing. Neurocognitive Mechanisms Underlying Prefrontal Cortex Processing in Human Behavior (M. MENAHEM)
• Computers, Communication, and Children’s Achievements (D.R. STEG)
• A Cybernetic Model to Explain the Origin of Thought Disorders During Organic Pathologies Affecting the CNS (C. LAZZARI, C. FRANCESCO)
• Using Software to Develop (L. RACHMANI).

Fernand VANDAMME (Belgium)

• Réalité Virtuelle Artificielle - Réalité Virtuelle Naturelle (A. BALDRATI)
• An Interactive Spoken Dialogue Interface for Virtual Reality Systems (P. NUGUES)
• Virtual Agents for Exploitation of Strategic Knowledge (D. VERVENNE)
• Integration or Isolation of People with a Handicap through Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies (V. SOREE)
• A Hybrid Approach in Vart-Applications, the Design and Simulation of Ballet Choregraphies (P. TISSEGHEM)
• General Overview of Virtual and Augmented Reality and its Applications (M. VANDAMME)
• Virtual and Augmented Reality in the Educational Environment
• Enhancing the Instructional Process (P. TISSEGHEM)
• Company Presentations Through Virtual and Augmented Reality (R. VAN CRAEN, L. LOCUS, F. VANDAMME, M. VANDAMME)
• Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in the Field of Marketing (L. LOCUS).

Lev VOLKOV (Russia)

• Introduction to Symposium « Homeostatics » (L. VOLKOV)
• Homeostatics and Conceptions of Information Space, Force and Time (V.P. CHRENOV, Y.M. GORSKY, V.I. RASUMOV, A.G. TESLINOV)
• Homeostatic Models in Artificial Intelligence (D.A. POSPELOV, V.L. STEFANUK)
• Basic Principles of General Theory of Manufacturing Systems (Y.I. POPOV)
• Homeostatic Conception of Keeping up of Rate of Global Cognitive Processes Development (I.S. LADENKO, V.I. RASUMOV, A.G. TESLINOV)
• Homeostatic Stability of Dynamic Systems (L.N. VOLKOV)
• Homeostatics and its Maintenance Mechanisms in Living and Unliving Nature (Y.M. GORSKY, A.M. STEPANOV)
• Stress Reaction From View-Point of Physiological and Psychological Homeostats (N.I. MOISEYEVA)
• Mathematical Modelling of Red Blood System Homeostasis (N.N. ASTAPKOVICH, G.A. DORRER, I.I. MORGULIS, V.P. NEFEDOV)
• Relative Equilibrium in Nature as Generalization of the Homeostasis and the Basic Thermodynamic Concepts (N.N. KOJEVNIKOV, V.S. DANILINA)
• Imitation Modelling of a - Priory Unstable Technical Systems (A.V. PETROV)
• Pro - and Anti - Homeostatic Control in Redundant Robotics (A.N. PANASENKO)
• On Quantitative Estimates of Complicated Redundant Systems (G.S. KURGANSKAYA).

A special pannel on Norbert WIENER, his work and his development will be moderated by Ph. BRETON.

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