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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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GROUP TECHNIQUE (Nominal) 2)4)

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A technique "used to enable a participant group to generate, clarify, and to initially assess relative saliency of factors relevant to an issue" (J. WARFIELD, 1989, p.2)

WARFIELD uses this evaluation technique as a feature of his "Interactive Management" and "Generic Design Science". It is meant to reveal ideas, opinions and beliefs of participants about some issue, and to measure their diversity.

He explains the technique as follows: "Members of the group work from a context statement about the issue to generate ideas about the issue, silently. Then there is a round-robin recording of the ideas. Next there is a formal period of clarification of the ideas, aimed at assuring that anyone in the group has the opportunity to understand every idea. As used by the Center for Interactive Management, the last step in applying NGT is to ask each individual member of the group to vote anonymously on what that individual believes are the five "most important" ideas in the set of ideas that remains after clarification. This voting record becomes part of the permanent data set on how members of the group share or do not share beliefs about relative importance of constituent factors in the complex issue under consideration. It allows a ranking pattern to be produced reflecting a group product at a certain point in time in considering the issue" (1991, p.198).

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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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