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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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GLOBALIZATION 1)4)

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A process of association among different systems formerly independent from each others.

Any globalization process implies the following conditions:

- the different systems must become in more or less permanent contact. Such a situation may occur for example when systems in expansion compete for the same resources of energy, matter or information.

- a new communication network should appear among the systems, according to the new interactions among them.

- some meta-regulations or meta-controls should become established, subordinating the different decisions systems to a set of general rules specific to the general needs of all the interconnecting systems.

Any globalization process leads to a deep internal reorganization of the systems integrated into the new whole.

Some former subsystems may disappear (a recent case is the replacement of the national currencies in the European Union by the Euro). Some former parts of the integrated systems may even recover some autonomy in specific matters. As written by the French politologist B.de JOUVENEL many years ago: "National powers are becoming too small to handle global issues and are too big to manage local ones" (1974).

Also D. BELL made similar comments.

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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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