APPENDIX 1
Papers Presented at the RC51 Annual Meeting, 1999

Heinrich Ahlemeyer: "Cybernetic Knowledge Management in Organizations." Frans Birrer: "From Natural Sustainability to Social Sustainability." Arne Collen: "Human Inquiry as a Social System: Problems of Complexity and Emergence in Research Methodology."
Tessaleno Devezas: "Diffusion-Learning Subsystems Dynamics: A New Approach to Explain Longwaves in Socioeconomic Development."
Felix Geyer: "Pockets of Irrationality in an Increasingly Rational World: An Effort to Simplify Unmanageable Environmental Overcomplexity?"
Bernd Hornung: "Concepts of Data and Information Exchange and Structural Coupling - Integrating Luhmann into Information Science."
Akira Ishikawa: "Knowledge Management, Autopoiesis and Apoptosis."
Arne Kjellman: "The Subject-Oriented Approach to Science and the Role of Human Consciousness." Richard E. Lee: "'Us' and 'Them' in the Study of Long-term, Large-scale Social Change."
Chaime Marcuello: "The Increase of Societal Complexity, Non-Profit Entities and Social Efficiency. A Sociocybernetic Approach to a Social Efficiency Concept and Its Measure."
Paul Maiteny: "'Inner' and 'Outer' Dimensions of Sustainability: The Need to Integrate Human Psychology into the Quest for Sustainable Development."
Dario Menanteau: "Cybernetics and Social Development: Today's Questions for the Future." Janneke van Mens-Verhulst, Cor van Dijkum, Edzel van Kuijk, Niek Lam.: "The Self-Regulation Model and Rate of Learning: Non-Linear Patterns in Dealing with Fatigue." Vessela Misheva: "Shame Culture and Civilization." Philip Nicolopoulos: "Steering and Change in Sustainable Social Systems: Convergence of the Anascopic Approach with the Katascopic One." Nikolaos Paritsis: "The Balance of Variety with Order: A Necessity for the Developing Sustainable Systems." Bernard Scott: "Being Holistic about Global Issues: Needs and Meanings." Karl-Heinz Simon: "Are System Indicators to Assess Sustainability Efforts of Societies Achievable? - Some Remarks on Social Systems and Their Involvement in Sustainability Discourse." Fritz Wallner: "Constructive Realism and Sociocybernetics."

APPENDIX 2
Papers Tentatively Programmed for RC51 Annual Meeting, 2000

1.
Juan Miguel Aguado Terron: "The Making Of Social Subject: The Role Of Theory And Technology In Social Emergence."
2.
Frans Birrer: "Environmental Values, Subliminal Enticement, And Autopoietic Neurosis."
3.
Mario Vieira de Carvalho: "Art as Autopoiesis? A critical approach starting from European avantgarde in the early 1950s."
4.
James T. Corredine: "The Aggregate Female Fecundity Interval - The Biological Origin Of The Periodicity of "Losch" Birth Waves."
5.
Tessaleno Devezas: "Learning Dynamics Of Technological Progress."
6.
Capitolina Diaz: "Conversational Heuristic As A Reflexive Method For Feminist Research."
7.
Cor van Dijkum: "Sociocybernetics: Going Beyond the Logic of the Human Sciences."
8.
Vladimir Dimitrov, Bob Hodge, Lesley Kuhn, Robert Woog: "The Danger Of System Thinking When Applied For Managing Social Complexity."
9.
Felix Geyer: will participate with a paper, as yet untitled.
10.
Bob Hodge: "Mexico in cyber-space: Neural networks and a postmodern science of language and culture."
11.
Bernd R. Hornung: "World, World System, And Globalization - Theoretical Problems In Luhmann's Theory Of Communication."
12.
Bernd R. Hornung: "Minimal Conceptual Modelling (Mincomod) - From Theory Of Society To IT-Systems In Hospitals."
13.
Arne Kjellman: "The Subject-Oriented Approach To Science And Some If Its Pedagogical And Ethical Consequences."
14.
Lesley Kuhn: "A Role For Complexity Theory Within The Extraordinary Difficulty Of Staying Humble"
15.
Nils O. Larsson: "Various system levels need various scientific methods."
16.
Richard E. Lee: "The Contradictory Effects Of A "Globalization" Perspective: Methods And Their Unanticipated Consequences."
17.
Alessandra Lippucci: "The Effects Of Observation And Self-Observation On Social Scientific Thinking."
18.
Marilena Lunca: "N-Valued Semantics For Undecided Agents."
19.
Chaime Marcuello: Global Governance for one planet: humanity as a single social system.
20.
Dario Menanteau: "Globalization And Development: Challenges And Opportunities For Sociocybernetics."
21.
Vessela Misheva: "The Theory Of Autopoietic Systems And Globalization."Pablo Navarro: "A Meta-Information Society? The Increasing Differentiation Between Information And Communication In The Digital Age."
22.
Vladimir Navrotsky: "The Application Of General Systems Theory To Understanding Societal Change In Russia."
23.
Pablo Navarro: "A Meta-Information Society? The Increasing Differentiation Between Information and Communication in the Digital Age."
24.
Otto Van Nieuwenhuijze: "'Sustainability': Control Politics in Disguise."
25.
Mohamed Nemiche & Rafael Pla-Lopez: "A Model Of Dual Evolution Of Humanity."
26.
John Raven: "The Development And Use Of Systems Diagrams To Improve Educational And Social Policy, With Particular Reference To Sustainability."
27.
Stephen Schecter: "Globalization Is Not The Tyranny Of The Market."
28.
Bernard Scott: "A Design For The Recursive Construction Of Learning Communities."
29.
Dimitrios Tsagdis & Michael Schreiber: "Observing Self-Construction: Shadows Of Local, National, And International (Economic) Objects."
30.
John Wood: "(Un)Managing The Butterfly: Ecology And The Grammar Of 'Self'."

APPENDIX 3
RC51 Session Program, WCSS, 2000

Session 1. Monday, July 17, 2000, 15.50-17.50
1.
Tessaleno Devezas and James Corredine: "The Biological Determinants of Long Wave Behavior in Socioeconomic Growth and Development."
2.
Gerard De Zeeuw: "On Constructivism: Complete Collectives and the Evolution of Research."
3.
Arne Kjellman: "Will the Subject-oriented Approach to Science Rehabilitate the Social Sciences?"
4.
Diane Laflamme: "The Attestation of Ethical Ability and Intention: An Autopoietic Process?"

Session 2. Tuesday, July 18, 2000, 11.45-12.00
Richard E. Lee: Plenary address, "The History, Goals, Accomplishments and Future Plans of RC51."

Session 3. Tuesday, July 18, 2000, 15.50-17.50
1.
John Little: "Using Luhmann: Assessing the Utility of LuhmannÕs Social Systems Theory."
2.
Richard E. Lee: "Local Action, Global Consequences? Agency and Structure in Contemporary Social Change."
3.
Loet Leydesdorff: "A Model Engine for 'Lock-in', 'Lock-out', and the Non-linear Dynamics of Network Configurations."

Session 4. Wednesday, July 19, 2000, 15.50-17.50
1.
Bernard Scott: "Cybernetics and the Social Sciences."
2.
Karl-Heinz Simon: "Systems Research and the Issue of Man-Environment Interactions."
3.
Eberhard Umbach: "The Fundamental Tasks of Systems Science."
4.
Cor Van Dijkum: "The Future of the Social Sciences: 'There is no Future without System Theory, Cybernetics and Interdisciplinarity'."

Session 5. Wednesday, July 19, 2000, 20.00-21.30
1.
Friedrich Wallner: "Application as a Circular Process on Self-reflective Science."
2.
Donald O. Rudin: "The Formal Theory of Sociopsychology- Beyond Parsons to Mature Sociocybernetics."
3.
Richard E. Lee: Closing Statement.