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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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COMPATIBILITY 1)4)

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Indispensable non-contradiction in the behavior of elements and/or subsystems in a complex system.

Non-compatible elements are those whose behavior produces outputs which are destructive for other elements.

What may be contradictory in the behavior of the elements, is a result of the rules which command such behavior. Some of J. CONWAY's games of life are models of self-destructive or self-blocking systems, due to interactions of incompatible rules.

No complex system allows for a long time the presence of elements or subsystems not being in harmony with its basic nature, as defined in its central control subsystem, which imposes its organizational closure.

Non-compatible elements are quicky identified, isolated and rejected as for example in the immune reaction or in case of exclusion of the human group. Racial, religious or cultural intolerance are probably kinds of social immune reactions, which makes them very difficult to avoid.

A specially interesting subject for research in G.S.T. would be a general inquiry in the ways to overcome or reduce rejection reactions when nocive.

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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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