Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow
The complexity of interactions and relationships in our world have consistently surpassed our ability to fully comprehend and govern. The presence of intelligent tools, both in the digital and physical realms, is progressively enhancing our capacities to act on personal, organizational, national, and international levels, leading to both intended and unintended consequences. Collectively, these changes are reshaping our primary habitat—the planet Earth—at a speed and scale that necessitate earnest consideration. In the midst of uncertainty, the development and utilization of these new capabilities would greatly benefit from CyberSystemic approaches and methods of learning. This advancement is crucial for fostering a sustainable understanding and taking actions to avert major threats to our civilization.
Therefore, Congress's submissions are encouraged but not constrained by the following themes:
1 Enhancing Active Citizenship and democratic processes
1.1 Enabling Active Citizenship
1.2 Enhancing democratic processes
2.1 Systemic Governance and Management
2.2 Exploring the nexus of ecology, society, and economics in organizational governance
2.3 A Shift in paradigm: how the Viable System Model shapes collaborative, self-governing organisations and networks
3 Combining Physical, Digital, Natural, and Artificial worlds into CyberSystemic ontologies
3.1 AI in the environment of uncertainty
3.2 CyberSystemic examination of Interactions, relationships, and agents of change
4 Learning to develop new personal and organisational capabilities
4.1 Cybernetic and Systems Education: Past, Present and Future
Going there and places to visit.
Publications
Accepted abstracts will be published in the electronic WOSC 19th Congress 2024 book of abstracts.
After the congress closes, a selection of congress full papers will be published in a Book published by Emerald. Fully developed papers can be submitted for special issues in scientific journals indexed in Thomson JCR, Scopus, RISC, VAK, listed below. Submission of papers congress resulting from the WOSC congress will comply with the publishing standards of these publications.
Submissions to journals follow their individual editorial policies. Special issues of selected journals and papers are expected to be published during 2024-26.
Keynotes
A 2-step submission process is used to enable you to share and discuss your research with peers, aiming to improve it.
Step 1. Abstract submission (Finshed)
Researchers, managers, policy-makers, professionals and students across the globe are invited to submit structured abstracts of about 500 to 800 wordsaddressing the Congress themes.
Please use the abstract/paper template.
IMPORTANT: Please send (submit) your abstracts via email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
with the Subject: "WOSC congress 2024 Abstract"
In the message, please point out in which sections you would prefer to participate and if you qualify for a discounted registration fee (a young researcher under 30 years, a senior researcher or a member of an organisation listed in "In Collaboration with").
Authors should receive a response within 14 days of submission. All accepted abstracts will be published in the Congress Book of Abstracts.
| 01. May 2024 | Abstract Submission deadline |
| 15. April 2024 | Notification of acceptance |
| 25. April 2024 | Early bird registration deadline |
Accepted and registered users have received usernames to log-in to the paper submission software.
In case of issues, please write to
Step 2. Full congress paper submission
Registered authors with an accepted abstract may submit a full congress paper. Full congress papers should not exceed 3500 words (see abstract/paper template). In step 2, peers may suggest to authors how to deal with the proposed research issues before their acceptance for presentation to Congress.
At the congress, the author's contributions will be discussed within their sections.
There will be the best paper award at the Congress, which will include acknowledgements of contributions to the final paper’s preparation.
Important dates
| 01. August 2024 | Congress papers submission deadline and Registration deadline for authors |
| 21. August 2024 | Congress full papers review deadline |
| 11. September 2024 | Revised Congress full papers submission deadline |
| 11. September 2024 | WOSC 19th Congress 2024 starts |
| 13. September 2024 | WOSC 19th Congress 2024 finishes |
Elementary submission rules
- Authors should make sure that the language of their papers meets the required standards.
- Authors can submit one paper per registration. For the submission of a second paper, discounted registration rates apply.
- Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts are ethically sound and meet the recognised standards, according to the author publishing ethics guide.
Author Guidelines
Please use the abstract/paper template with detailed author guidelines for the paper submission. Please use the formatting options in the template - to not personalise the formatting options. If you copy/paste text, please use: "paste as text" option.
your WOSC 2021 team