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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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DISAGGREGATION 5)

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A higher resolution level in a model, that aims at showing more clearly variables considerate as more elemental.

D. MEADOWS et al. write, referring themselves to the supposed practical benefits of disaggregation: "… every modelling effort is subject to severe constraints of time and resources. It is never possible (or desirable) to include everything that analysts - or others – think may be desirable. As a model becomes more detailed, data requirements, mathematical problems and overall complexity increase at a rapid rate. Detail can become a heavy burden when the time comes to debug the computer program or write documentation. Sometimes the decision to use a higher level of disaggregation results in excluding whole sectors or, perhaps limiting the time available for validation, sensitivity analysis, documentation or even actual use of the model to calculate results. It can also make the running of the model very expensive" (1982, p.101-2).

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  • 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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