Gerhard Chroust

Gerhard Chroust (born 23 April 1941) is an

Gerhard Chroust was born in 1941 in Vienna, Austria. He began studying Communications-electronics in 1959 and received a M.A. from TU Wien in 1964, a M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, and a PhD from TU Wien in 1974.

From 1966 to 1991 Chroust worked at the

Chroust is Editor-in-Chief of the IFSR Newsletter a.o. Furthermore, he is Chairperson of the Editorial Board of the Book Series of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), Editorial Board Member of several journals: The Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems from 1976 until 1985, the IBM Programming Series from 1978 until 1990, the Computer Standards and Interfaces from 1992 until 2005, and Systems Research and Behavioral Science since 1994. In 1997 he was also on the Academic board of the International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, edited by Charles François.

Further Chroust is organizationally active is as Secretary/Treasurer at the International Federation for Systems Research, Vice-President of the Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies and Advisor to Austrian Standards Committee.

Family

Gerhard Chroust has been married to Janie Chroust, née Weps, since 1968. They have two sons Martin (* 1971) and Stefan (* 1974), and five grandchildren Adrian (* 2001), Niklas (* 2004), Viktoria (* 2005), Rebecca (* 2007) and Ella (* 2008).

Work

The research interests of Gerhard Chroust are in the fields of

Cybernetics and Programming Languages

In 1964 Chroust wrote his Masters Thesis "Kybernetisches Modell: Muehlespiel Masters" about cybernetics and continued to investigate cybernetic machines for another four years.

From the study of Theorem Proving 1965-66 Chroust continued to study formal definition of

In the 1970s Chroust continued to study parallelism and

Chroust has written, co-authored and edited a dozen books and over 400 articles, papers and other publications.[3] A selection:

• 1980. Firmware, microprogramming, and restructurable hardware : proceedings of the IFIP Working Conference on Firmware, Microprogramming, and Restructurable Hardware, Linz, Austria, April 28-May 1, 1980. Edited with Jörg R. Mühlbacher.
• 1985. Formal models in programming : proceedings of the
  IFIP TC2
  Working Conference on the Role of Abstract Models in Information Processing, Vienna, Austria, 30 January - 1 February 1985. Edited with E.J. Neuhold.
• 1989. Mikroprogrammierung und Rechnerentwurf. Oldenbourg Verlag.
• 1992. Modelle der Software-Entwicklung - Aufbau und Interpretation von Vorgehensmodellen. Oldenbourg Verlag Wien-München.
• 1994. Workflow management : challenges, paradigms, and products : CON '94. Edited with A. Benczúr.
• 1994. Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks 94. Edited with P. Doucek.
• 1995. Umfrage Workflow - Eine Momentaufnahme über die Verbreitung, Einsatz und Meinungen über Workflow in den deutschsprachigen Ländern. With J. Bergsmann. Oldenbourg Wien-München.
• 1995. Die Geschichte der Datenverarbeitung - Bibliographie zur Geschichtswand. With H. Zemanek. Oldenbourg Wien/München
• 1998. Adolf Adam - 80 Jahre, eine Anekdotensammlung, ÖSGK, Reports of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna.
• 2005. IFSR 2005 - The New Roles of Systems Sciences for a Knowledge-based Society, Kobe 2005. Edited with
  Jifa Gu
  . Jaist Press, Komatsu, Japan.

References

External links

• Homepage Gerhard Chroust at www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at.
• Dr. Gerhard Chroust. ICSCI, 2008.
• Article 25 Years of the IFSR: A Milestone in the Systems Sciences, by Gerhard Chroust.
• "Emeritus am Institut für Systems Engineering and Automation an der JKU Linz – ein Portrait" by Helmut Malleck. pp 4–5. (in German).