The First International TRANSIT workshop on Cross-disciplinary Research (TWCR 2018) will be held in York, UK, 11-12 April 2018. It will be hosted by the York Cross-disciplinary Centre for Systems Analysis and the University of York.

Everything is connected, and everything is changing. How do we manage our physical, technological, ecological and social systems as they evolve? How do we design systems that are inherently evolvable to support and encourage inevitable change? How do we manage and guide natural systems that are undergoing change and evolution? To pose and answer these questions, we need to co-evolve our understanding of evolution, evolvability, and change, across the boundaries of many disciplines.

TWCR 2018 will explore the cross-disciplinary theme Evolution, Evolvability, and Change, seeking to bring together ideas, approaches, concepts, and perspectives from natural biological systems and other physical systems, from engineered physical and virtual systems, and from human social systems.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from all these connected fields, to engage across the disciplines, to inform of latest findings, to transfer discoveries and concepts from one field to another, and to inspire new ideas and new collaborations across the theme.