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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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EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS 2)5)

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The study of the processes of evolution and co-evolution, using automata

This study tries to reproduce in automata the evolutive processes observed through the history of living systems, in darwinian terms

The automata are endowed with some quite simple behavioral potentials as for example the capacity to move in certain specific ways, or to perceive at some distance the presence of an obstacle, which can be fixed or moving

The results of each automata's activity are registered into an array of artificial neurons, which dynamically interact and may produce behavioral changes in the automata. This leads to a spontaneous process of evolution (and coevolution) between two or more automata)

This process may persist indefinitely in time. Some automata of this type can simultaneously undergo evolution in their neuronal circuits and their morphology (D. FLOREANO, 2002, p. 24)

→ Artificial life; Epigenesis;Evolution (Co-); Machina Speculatrix; Parallel Distributed Processing; Self Organizing Systems; Selection

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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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