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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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ENVIRONMENT (Dynamic) 1)

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That part of the environment whose transformations are at the same time scale as the system.

H. OZBEKHAN (quoted by J.L. LEMOIGNE) writes: "… the word environment has been understood as too static. Reference is more and more made to situations in order to describe environments which change constantly; this expression connotes a dynamic environment, made of a conjunction of events" (1977, p.65).

A dynamic environment requires adaptibility from the system. A more or less homeostatic environment admits more or less homeostatic systems. On the contrary, for an emergent dissipative system, as stated by R.N. ADAMS: "… a favorable environment is one that provides the necessary resources to enable it to continue its dissipative process" (1988, p.124).

It is a very serious mistake not taking into account some active part of a system's environment and it generally leads to uncorrect forecasting. This is a result of the frequently static appearance of the environment and the lack of perception by the modelizer of the different lengths of natural or induced cycles.

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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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