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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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"A mnemonic of the six crucial characteristics which should be included in a well-formulated root definition" (in Soft System Dynamics Methodology) (R. RODRIGUEZ ULLOA, 1999).

The six crucial characteristics are:

Actor: A person who carries out one or more of the activities of the system.

Customer: A beneficiary or victim of the system's activity.

Environmental constraints: The external impositions which the system takes as given.

Owner: The individual who find himself in the problem situation and could modify or destroy the system.

Transformation process: The core transformation process in a human activity system, which can be expressed as the conversion of some input into some output.

Weltanschauung: The (unquestioned) image or model of the world which makes this particular human activity system (with its particular transformation process) a meaningful one to consider.

The CATWOE characteristics were originally introduced by P. CHECKLAND

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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