Society for General Systems Research

The Society for General Systems Research (SGSR) is predecessor of the current International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), known to be one the first interdisciplinary and international co-operations in the field of systems theory and systems science. This organization was initiated in 1954 as "Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory", got formally underway as "Society for General Systems Research" and was eventually renamed in 1988.[1]

Other SGSR members

Other initial SGSR members in 1956/57, a selection:

References

  1. ^ SGSR History at nndb.com.
Society for General Systems Research Presidents

Kenneth Boulding (1957-58) · Charles McClelland (1959-61) · Willam Ashby (1962-64) · Anatol Rapaport (1965) · Peter Caws (1966) · John Milsum (1967) · Milton Rubin (1968) · Lawrence Slobodkin (1969) · Bertram Gross (1970) · Stafford Beer (1971) · Margaret Mead (1972) · James Grier Miller (1973) · Gordon Pask (1974) · Kjell Samuelson (1975) · Heinz von Foerster (1976) · Charles Vickers (1977) · Richard Ericson (1978) · Brian Gaines (1979) · Robert Rosen (1980) · George Klir (1981) · John N. Warfield (1982) · John A. Dillon (1985) · Peter Checkland (1986) · Russell L. Ackoff (1987)
International Society for the Systems Sciences Presidents