This e-book is devoted to the series of International Conferences "Systems Science" as well as to their initiator and a long-time chairman Professor Zdzislaw Bubnicki. The main purpose is to disseminate among specialists on systems and cybernetics, readers of Kybernetes, information on the achievements of one of the most meritorious European scientific conference on systems science with a long history. It is also a tribute to Professor Zdzislaw Bubnicki, outstanding and well recognized scientist on systems science and engineering, connected with the Journal, Kybernetes and the World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics.