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The Fifth Congress on the Foundations of Information Science will be held next summer in Russia under ISIS support

Last Updated on 06 March 2012 administrator 12 November 2011

The recently launched International Society for Information Studies (ISIS) will support the fifth Congress on the Foundations of Informations Science (FIS) to be held in Moscow next summer, as envisaged in the past Congress held in Beijin 2010, where the foundations of the first Society were settled.

The ISIS was formaly founded this summer under Austrian regulation as a non-profit organisation with headquarters in Vienna, represented by scientists from all over the world, and aimed at advancing "global and collaborative studies in the sciences of information, information technology and information society as a field in its own right by boosting the elaboratingon of common conceptual frameworks the implementation of which in practice contributes to mastering the challenges of the information age" (ISIS constitutional chart).

The principles and structure of the new society was preliminary discussed in Beijin during the 2010-FIS Congress and progresively shaped in the following months. Among other missions the International Society shall be in charge of the organisation of the FIS congresses to be celebrated every two years. With the next edition of the FIS congress -started in Madrid in 1994 and also convened in Vienna and Paris-, the conference will be convened for the first time by an institution which will veil for the continuity of this fundamental scholarly event under the lidership of Kostantin Kolin (head of the Institute of Informatics Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences) who in turn is currently president of ISIS.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The first day of the Conference:

The first plenary session (10.00 -14.00)
10.00-10.30 - Opening of the Conference
10.30 - 14.00 - First Plenary Session:

1. History and prospects of international cooperation in studying the fundamentals of Information Science. (W. Hofkirchner, Austria and P. Marijuán, Spain).
2. Information basis of Life and challenges of studying the Information in biological systems.  (K. Sudakov, Russia).
3. Information Thinking and Systems Thinking. (D. Brenner, Switzerland, Kun Wu, China).
4. Modern Educational Revolution: information aspects. (I. Ilinsky, Russia).

15.00-18.00 - Meetings of the thematic sections:

Section 1. History and Philosophy of Information Studies. Information Theory.
Section 2. Psychological and cognitive problems of Information. Artificial Intelligence.

The second day of the Conference:

Section 3. The information in animate and inanimate nature.
Section 4. The Information Society. Socio-economic and cultural problems of information.

15.00-18.00 - Round Table:

"Problems and experience in studying the problems of Information in the Education System."

1. Social Information Science in China: Current status and prospects of development (Kang Ouyang, China).

2. Russia's path towards the Information Society (Y. Khokhlov, Russia).

3. Study Information - strategic objective research and education in the 21st century. (K. Kolin, Russia).

The Report of the President of ISIS;

Adoption of the Regional Branches ISIS;

Adoption of the Moscow Declaration ISIS.

Electing a new President of ISIS.

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