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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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DESIGN (Systemic approach to) 2)

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B. BANATHY writes: "In sharp contrast (with the traditional social planning) the systems design approach seeks to understand a problem situation as a system of interconnected, interdependent and interacting problems, and creates a design solution as a system of interconnected, interdependent and internally consistent solution ideas. Design is a journey by which we can bring about a desired future state of our system" (1992, p.550).

According to BANATHY the design process goes through four succesive stages:

1) Formulate the core definitions about the nature of the system and the vision of the stakeholders.

2) Develop the specifications, as for example services to be offered by the system, in which way and to whom, ownership, rights and responsabilities, etc…

3) Design the system of key and subfunctions, to be arranged in a coherent way.

4) Design the organization on the base of the functions to be fulfilled and the practical possibilities to fulfill them.

BANATHY refers himself to systems design as to a "journey", emphazising its dynamic character. It should be added that the design process of a system never ends as circumstances are permanently changing. Moreover, the results of action are to be repeatedly monitored and fed back to the process, in order to introduce possible corrections.

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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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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