Previous TC events: 1.SWIIS 2009 Bucharest, Romania Oct. 28-30

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Supplemental Ways for Improving International Stability - SWIIS - has a long tradition in IFAC. According to the triennial cycle after Prishtina (Kosovo) 2006 the Workshop was organised this year by the Faculty of "Control and Computers" of the "University Politechnica of Bucharest" from October 28 to 30, 2009 in Bucharest, Romania.

The program includes 3 plenary papers, 18 technical papers and 2 panel discussions. The plenary papers deals with a new approach for simulation of sociotechnical systems, International stability issues and globalisation.

According to the scope of SWIIS the topics of the technical papers were heterogenous. One block of papers dealt with complex - adaptive - systems. Such systems are more and more introduced not only for modelling and control of socioeconomic systems. Another session was about software piracy, existing laws and the impact to economy. Cooperative networks offer the possibility to design an umbrella for different applications. Further topics adressed were fuzzy methods, ethics in IT, collaborative software platforms, …….

In the panel discussion " Impact of the crisis on Social Stability" it was mentioned that in terms of SWIIS the problem could be seen as a stability problem of a very complex system. To solve this problem new theoretical approaches are necessary. The other panel discussion "Education and Research in a Global Society" was naturally concentrated to Universities. 42 participants attended the very well organised event.