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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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GLOBAL VIEW 1)3)

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A satisfactory global view of a situation or system should take care of the following aspects:

- All the significant elements or components must be identified;

- All their important interrelations must be recognized;

- No spurious or fictitious interrelations should be introduced;

- The real dynamics of the various subsystems should be clearly characterized (i.e. linear or nonlinear; continuous or discontinuous; cyclical or irregular, etc.);

- The basic interrelations of the system with its significant environment must be stated;

- No imprudent or unfounded extrapolations should be made.

These various rules are qualified ("significant", "important", "spurious", "real", "basic", "imprudent", "unfounded"). This introduces the observer's view and implies the need for criteria. Moreover, such criteria must necessarily be:

1.based on systemic and cybernetic models of the interrelations, suitable to maintain the unity, identity and coherence in the representative global model;

2.take in account the aims of the study and the level of observation used.

Obviously, no valuable global view could be obtained without the collaboration and mutual understanding between numerous specialists through a transdisciplinary language.

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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