IIIS 1987

In December of 1954, under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a meeting of some seventy people was held in Berkeley to form a society for the exploration and development of the ideas that von Bertalanffy, Boulding, Rapoport, and Gerard had come together to discuss earlier that year in Palo Alto at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (a newly established Ford Foundation enterprise). The Society was originally formed as the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, which was then changed to the Society for General Systems Research in the fall of 1955. The name was changed again in 1986 to the International Society for General Systems Research, and then finally, in 1988, to the International Society for the Systems Sciences.

Az ISSS évente tart éves nemzetközi konferenciát, különböző országokban.

Magyarországon első ízben a 31-ik éves konferenciát rendezték meg 1987-ben. Ez a 4. éves találkozója volt  az International Society for the Systems Sciences-nek.

A konferencia Budapestre hozásában jelentős szerepe volt Kiss Istvánnak.