Tomas Sigmund, member of the Emergent Systems Group, works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Analysis that belongs to the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at the University of Economics, Prague. Currently he is focusing on theoretical systems approaches towards information and computer…
Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning“ in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according to the fourth law of thermodynamics after Stuart…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner attended Research Committee on Sociocybernetics sessions and held a lecture on Convergences of General System Theory, Critical Realism and Theory of Society. The Forum of the International Sociological Association took place in Vienna from 10-14 July 2016.
Members of the Emergent Systems, Information and Society were speakers at a session of the 10th International Leibniz Congress held in Hanover, Germany, during the week from 18 to 22 July 2016. The session was convoked by Rainer E. Zimmermann and dedicated to Relationality…
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The Research Group Emergent Systems, Information and Society held a meeting in the framework of the BCSSS emcsr avantgarde 2016 in Vienna. Hamid Ekbia, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Mediated Interaction at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, held…
The Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V. (LS) hosted the first meeting of the group as Arbeitskreis (working group) of the LS “Emergente Systeme, Information und Gesellschaft” (the German translation of the group name). It took place on 10…
On 13 October 2015, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, member of the Emergent Systems Group, gave a talk at the Austrian Computer Society (OCG): A taxonomy of computation and information architecture. On 14 October 2015, she gave a talk at the lunch-time seminar…
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In September 2015, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, one of the heads of the newly established Emergent Systems Group, was invited to this year’s Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) in Podebrady, (Czech Republic). Wolfgang Hofkirchner: Ethics for a Global Sustainable Information Society | presentation |…
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In 2015, the then International Society for Information Studies (now International Society for the Study of Information, IS4SI) held its Summit in Vienna, chaired by its then President, Wolfgang Hofkirchner, also head of the UTI Research Group. A track was…
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