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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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Computer models of birds used to study flocking behavior in real birds.

These "computer birds", designed by C.W. REYNOLDS, are assigned the following individual rules of behavior:

"1. Maintain a minimum distance to other objects (including other boids) in the environment.

"2. Seek to adjust speed according to the other boids in the immediate vicinity.

"3. Maintain the position in the vicinity of that location considered by the boid to be the center of the flock (the "center of gravity" of the other boids nearby)

"A migratory urge is built into the model and specified in terms of a global direction, …to make sure that the flock does not remain in the location but continues forward"

These rules are sufficient to elicit collective behavior of the boids, as for instance avoid by suitable dispersal, obstacles introduced in the modelizing space and thereafter reconstruct an ordered flocking. (C. EMMECHE, 1994, "Schools, Shoals, Swarms", p.89-90)

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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