1. Editorial

   • Robert L. Flood

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. Ackoff's fables: Very short stories with very sharp points — On development

   • Russell L. Ackoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 6

3. Testament to conversations on critical systems thinking between two systems practitioners

   • Robert L. Flood
   • Werner Ulrich

   Papers Pages: 7 - 29

4. Power-ideology matrix in social systems control

   • John C. Oliga

   Papers Pages: 31 - 49

5. Multiple-criteria decision support systems: The powerful tool for attacking complex, unstructured decisions

   • Sang M. Lee
   • Hyun B. Eom

   Papers Pages: 51 - 65

6. Automation design: Its human problems

   • Sasan Rahmatian

   Papers Pages: 67 - 80

7. A complexity architecture for information technologies: A three-year didactic experiment

   • Fernando Sáez Vacas

   Papers Pages: 81 - 96

8. Book reviews

   • J. Mackness
   • Norman Jackson
   • D. V. Marshall

   BookReview Pages: 97 - 105

9. News

   • Wendy Gregory

   News Pages: 107 - 110

10. Important announcement

    Announcement Pages: 111 - 111