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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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COMMAND 1)

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An imperative message whose aim is to modify the behavior of the receiver.

V. TURCHIN writes: "The meaning of a command is the way it changes the state of the receiver. In the classical limiting case a command leaves the receiver no choice at all, so that the action of the receiver is uniquely determined by the command. Computer languages can serve as an illustration" (1993, p.14).

The concept of command should be stripped from its originally limitied psycho-social meaning.

On the other hand, TURCHIN also observes that in many practical cases, "the command leaves almost no choice" to the receiver (Ibid).

The sender of the command can never be sure that – due to the time lag in its transmission, as for example in a tele-piloted rocket – its general conditions of validity will remain changeless (or even that they were correctly evaluated).

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  • 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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