The 52nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

July 13-18, 2008

ISSS2008: Systems that Make a Difference

Location: University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union, 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin

Paper deadline: May 10, 2008

The title for this conference borrows from Gregory Bateson’s definition of information as “a difference that makes a difference.” The question for systems researchers and practitioners is, “what difference are we making?”

For more information see the Madison 2008 [1] main page, and the Madison 2008 Conference Announcement [2]

Timothy F. H. Allen [3], President-elect, ISSS (2009) and Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin

Steve Carpenter [4], Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin

Manfred Drack [5], Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Vienna, Austria

Jon Foley [6], Professor, Department of Sustainability and Global Environment, University of Wisconsin

David L. Hawk [7], Dean of the School of Management and Faculty in the New Jersey School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Doug McDavid [8], Executive Research Consultant, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

Bobby Milstein [9], US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Syndemics Prevention Network [10]

Bill Rouse [11], Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a joint appointment in the College of Computing. Also, Fellow, International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) 2006 and recipient of the IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and 2006

David Schwartz [12], Professor, Chemistry and Genetics, University of Wisconsin

David Waltner-Toews [13], Professor, Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph and founding president of the Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health [14]

Jennifer Wilby [15], Director of the Centre for Systems Studies and faculty member in Management Systems at the University of Hull, UK