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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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CORE (Frozen) 2)

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"A connected mesh of elements that are effectively locked into either an active or inactive state" (1991, p.67)

According to St. KAUFFMAN, who introduces this model: "The frozen core creates interlinked walls of constancy that percolate or grow across the entire system. As a result, the system is partitioned into an unchanging frozen core and islands of changing elements. These islands are functionally isolated: changes in the activities of one island cannot propagate through the frozen core to other islands. The system as a whole becomes orderly because changes in its behavior must remain small and local. Low connectivity is therefore a sufficient condition for orderly behavior to arise in disordered switching systems".

Obviously, KAUFFMAN rediscovered ASHBY's understanding of the nature of poorly or richly joined systems and the importance of constraints.

Frozen cores may also explain the origin of structures and is reminiscent of LAVILLE's concept of permanent whirls, of D. Mc NEIL's model of toroid, and even possibly of d'ARCY THOMPSON's discoveries about the evolution of forms.

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