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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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CONTROL (Forms of) 2)

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Control can be introduced in numerous different ways. The following are indicated by L.E. BAYLISS (1966 – retranslated from the Spanish translation – original unavailable):

- auto-adaptive: Return of a system's function toward its most adequate value by automatic change of the parameters (1968, p. 118).

- integral: Control operated upon a deviation, that becomes matematically integrated in time (p.42)

- nonlineal: Intermittent control according to the existence of thresholds and saturation points in the process (p.42). (This is the on off control).

- proportional: Control operated by a regulating device that produces at one moment a signal proportional to the deviation (p.38).

- variable: Control operated by a regulating device on the base of memory of former deviations (p.42).

Volitive controls could be added, being those that man establishes in artifical or natural systems that he wants to modify to his advantage.

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