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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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HIERARCHY Theory 2)

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At the 1998 Conference of ISSS in Atlanta, J.M. WILBY described as follows the state of the art in hierarchy theory: "(it) is one of several possible systems approaches… used in the study of complexity… in the observing of complex situations. The theory is systemic in itself, dealing with the issues central to systems science, e.g. the importance of the observer, and the flows of matter, energy, and information through systems".

Hierarchy theory has been applied in such diverse fields of study as ecology, biology, linguistics, business, philosophy, mathematics and physics"(1998 Abstracts, p. 190) "… an ongoing research… aims to determine the utility and validity of hierarchy as a systems approach for: 1) the analysis of existing complex systems and problem situations; 2) the planning of interventions in existing complex situations, and 3) the design of future systems

"Outcomes of the overall research will include the construction of a set of principles for hierarchy theory, the evaluation and design for a methodology for hierarchy theory, and the critical evaluation of hierarchy theory… "(Ibid)

This research is going on at the Lincoln School of Management at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, U.K.

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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