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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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DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN 1)2)

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The region of space-time occupied by a system.

This term was created by A. ANGYAL (1941, in F.E. EMERY, Ed., 1969, p.21).

The dimensional domain is similar to a topological space, extended over the time dimension. Its characteristics are defined by the system within and it thus becomes differentiated from its environment.

According to ANGYAL: The dimensional domain is intimately involved in the formation of systems" (p.21).

It becomes defined through the autogenesis process, but it may grow and undergo internal transformations, within defined limits. The dimensional domain contains the systems structure. In ANGYAL's words: "A system is a distribution of the members in a dimensional domain" (p.25).

J.W. SUTHERLAND distinguished in a somewhat different – and more precise – sense:

- "- the ecological dimension of the system which encompasses its "without";

- the domain dimension, which is its "within";

- the dynamic dimension "which is used to house any structural or functional changes which might occur between successive snapshots" (1974, p.131).

In this encyclopedia the term "invironment" is proposed for the domain dimension "within".

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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