The Cybernetics of Self-organisation

Self-organisation is a fact in the world we live in. This is a relational world in which agents’ natural asymmetrical complexities are warped by the Law of Requisite Variety. For as long as these relations remain requisite variety will assert itself mostly through self-regulation and self-organisation. This was the intended theme of the Sixteen Congress of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC 2014). WOSC 2014’s title highlighted “Our Self-organising World: From Disruption to Reparation”. WOSC together with the Universidad de Ibague, Colombia, organised this Congress in October, 2014. This was a most successful event with more than 200 participants from all over the world. Dr Alfonso Reyes, Rector of the University, supported the event with resources, care and quality; the activities and Proceedings of the Congress are documented in the website http://wosccongress.unibague.edu.co.