John P. van Gigch,
        California State University, Sacramento, USA.
        William R. King,
        University of Pittsburgh, USA.

 Assistant Editors :

        Nikolaos Georgopoulos and Ioannis Theocharopoulos
        University of Piraeus,
        80, Karaoli & Dimitriou Street, GR-185 34  Piraeus, Greece.
        Email:  itheo@unipi.gr

 Book Review :

        William Acar, Kent State University, USA.
       Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

International Advisory Board :

William Acar, Kent State University, USA. Russell L. Ackoff, Chairman of the Board of INTERACT, USA. Hojjat Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA. Paul Ballonoff, Ballonoff Consulting, USA. Bela Antal Banathy, Saybrook Graduate School & International Systems Institute, USA. Bernard De Baets, University of Gent, Belgium. Kenneth D. Bailey, University of California, USA. Robert Benjamin, Syracuse University, USA.Frantisek Capkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Tony Chan, University of Aizu, Japan. Alexander Christakis, CWA, Ltd., Interactive Management Consultants, USA. Arne Collen, Saybrook Graduate School, USA. Jane Cull, Director of the “Life's Natural Solutions”, Australia. John Darzentas, University of the Aegean, Greece. Vladimir Degtiar, Moscow State University, Russia. Daniel Dubois, University of Liege, Belgium. Patrik Eklund, Umea University, Sweden. Peter Erdi, Academy of Sciences, Hungary. Marta Franova, Universite Paris Sud, France. Wojciech Gasparski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Ewa Grabska, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Robert Heckman, Syracuse University, USA.Raymond Ison, The Open University, UK. Gyuri Jaros, University of Sydney, Australia. Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. John Karkazis, University of the Aegean, Greece. Manolya Kavakli, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Etienne Kerre, University of Gent, Belgium. Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Petr Lansky, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Richard Lee, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton, USA. Brian Lees, University of Paisley, UK. Yi Lin, President and Director of the International Institute for General Systems Studies, USA. Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic. Fr. George Metallinos, University of Athens, Greece. Gerald Midgley, University of Hull, UK. Gianfranco Minati, Italian Association for Research on Systems, Italy. John-Christos Panayiotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece. Luis Rocha, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. James Rose, Ceptual Institute, USA. Gordon Rowland, Ithaca College, USA. Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ross Smith, Deakin University, Australia. Karl Svozil, University of Technology of Vienna, Austria. Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, University of Alberta, Canada. Lane Tracy, Ohio University, USA. Yanchun Zhang,, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

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