Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 Travel Award sponsored by Systems. The award was granted to Mr. Peng Xu, a Ph.D. student of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs to cover travel expenses of the 29th Annual INCOSE International Symposium, which will be held in Orlando, FL, USA.

Mr. Peng Xu’s current research focuses on intelligent manufacturing, production automation, mathematical modeling, and data analytics. He currently is a graduate research assistant in the Systems Engineering and
Design Lab, VT.

Systems is proud to support this young researcher working in the field of systems science, systems engineering, and systems-related fields and wishes him the greatest success in his career. We would also like to express our gratitude to all who submitted applications—thank you for letting us get to know you and your work. We hope all of you continue to pay attention to Systems in the future.

I would like to congratulate the winner and thank the selection committee for their excellent work in selecting the winner from such a large number of outstanding candidate profiles.

Prof. Dr. Ockie Bosch
Editor-in-Chief, Systems

Dear Colleagues,

As Editor-in-Chief of Systems, on behalf of the Evaluation Committee, I am pleased to announce that the winner of the Systems 2018 Travel Award is Ms. Erin S. Kenzie, a PhD student at Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, who will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards her travel expenses to attend the 36th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland, 6-10 August 2018.

Ms. Erin S. Kenzie is a PhD candidate in Systems Science at Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. Her research is in systems modeling, social science research methods, and urban studies. Ms. Erin S. Kenzie has been studying system dynamics for more than ten years. Her papers “Presenting interactive causal-loop diagrams in Kumu: Lessons from a concussion recovery model” and “Computational Model for
Traumatic Brain Injury” have been accepted to the 36th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society.

This was a difficult decision with such high quality applications for the award, and we would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and thought-provoking presentations. We would also like to deliver our great thanks to the Evaluation Committee members for their comprehensive evaluation of the candidates.

Prof. Dr. Ockie Bosch
Editor-in-Chief