IMCIC 2014 - The 5th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2014

The purpose of the Organizing Committee of the International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2014 is to bring together scholars and professionals from the three fields, Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics, in order to promote and foster inter-disciplinary communication and interactions among them; in order to make possible the intellectual humus required for inter-disciplinary synergies, inter-domain cross-fertilization and the production of creative analogies. Consequently, formal disciplinary oriented breakout sessions will be complemented with interdisciplinary presentations and informal conversational sessions.
There are many good disciplinary, specific and focused conferences in any one of the major themes of IMCIC 2014. There are also good general conferences, which have a wider scope and are more comprehensive. Each one of these kinds of conferences has its typical audience. IMCIC 2014 Organizing Committee purpose is to bring together both kinds of audiences, so participants with a disciplinary and focused research will be able to interact with participants from other related disciplines for interdisciplinary communication and potential inter-disciplinary collaborative research.
What is IMCIC 2014?
IMCIC 2014 is an international forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and consultants, theoreticians and practitioners in the fields of Complexity, Informatics, and Cybernetics. IMCIC 2014 Organizing Committee will consider disciplinary research articles for their possible acceptance as well as multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary research, studies, reflections, programs, and projects.
Besides the regular formal sessions, where papers will be presented, IMCIC 2014 Organizing Committee is planning to include in the conference program informal conversational sessions, where conceptual and theoretical commonalities and differences among Complex Science, Cybernetics and Informatics will be discussed. Examples of inputs to these informal conversational sessions are to discuss statements as the following ones:
"A key difference between current cybernetics and complexity theory is the use of different epistemology. Complexity theorists use a realist epistemology and assume that complexity exists in an observed system, or perhaps in a computer model. Cyberneticians use a constructivist epistemology and assume that the system of interest is defined by the observer. Cyberneticians emphasize the regulatory nature of knowledge. An observer constructs a representation of a system in order to be able to manage a system of interest. Hence, cyberneticians assume that the task is to manage complexity through a circular process of interaction and interpretation. In social systems observers both construct descriptions and participate in the operation of the social system using those descriptions." (Umpleby, 2008)
"Complexity Science and informatics are impacting every industry from manufacturing to biotechnology;" (Hoefler, 2002)
"Cybernetics and complexity science are based on the same principles;" (Michlmayr, 2007) and informatics and cybernetics have been increasingly related via computing, communications and control technologies.
"The fact that these days we refer mostly to informatics rather than cybernetics has no more significance than talking about an airplane instead of an aircraft. However, if we give these two words some thought, we will realize that this terminological identity underscores the function of cybernetics as the source discipline for informatics". (Ershov, 1959; quoted by Ya. Fet, 2006)