BCSSS

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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CROSS-DISCIPLINARY 1)3)

A basic characteristic of systemics, which allows the uses of analogies, homomorphisms and isomorphisms between different disciplines as a methodology.

According to G. KLIR, this characteristic implies at least three important consequences: "First, systems science knowledge and methodology are directly applicable in virtually all disciplines of classical science. Second, systems science has the flexibility to study systemhood properties of systems and the associated problems that include aspects derived from any number of different disciplines and specializations of classical science. Such cross-disciplinary systems and problems can thus be studied as wholes rather than collections of the disciplinary subsystems and subproblems. Third, the cross-disciplinary orientation of systems science has a unifying influence on classical science, increasingly fractured into countless numbers of narrow specializations, by offering unifying principles that transcend its self-imposed boundaries. Classical science and systems science may thus be viewed as complementary dimensions of modern science" (1993, p.29).

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]


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