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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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COMPETENCE (Communicative) 4)

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In a heterarchical organization, the capacity of any element to share his/her (and its, if the concept can be somehow translated to natural or artificial non-human systems) knowledge, experience, information, etc… to any other element of the organization.

J.A. JOHANNESSEN describes the conditions for communicative competence, as resumed hereafter:

- Listeners must be attentive, without interrupting

- Knowledge is in the dialogue and not with the single individual

-Recognition must be reciprocal and the dialogue free of domain dominance

- Only the power of rationality is to be used

- Principles of complementarity and self-organization are the bases of dialogue

- Dialogue must be constantly validated

- Every explanation is personal and fragmentary

- Knowledge is obtained through a shared communication process

- The minimum unit in communication is the "triad": action – reaction – resultant

- Pathology of communication should be clearly understood: self-contradiction, inconsistencies, shifting of types (categories), obscurities, etc…

- An explicit evaluation of the surrounding conditions of communication is needed

- Participants establish a metarule for their communication

- Dialogue is based on synthesis, with the problem definition phase emphasized

- Premises and suppositions must always be explicit

- It is not possible to impose linear thinking upon nonlinear reality (1991, p.49-50).

These guidelines have much in common with J. WARFIELD's Generic Design.

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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