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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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IDEAL-TYPE (Mechanical) 1)2)

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SUTHERLAND describes as follows the characteristics of the mechanical ideal-types:

"Interface conditions: Usually exist within well- defined, tangible boundaries which may be adjusted endogenously for greater or lesser selectivity with respect to entering or exciting forces.

"Structural characteristics: Generally has its components arrayed in a neat, observable hierarchy, such that properties at one level tend to be extrapolations of properties at other levels, with relationships among the various levels being essentially deterministic.

"Dynamic properties: Parts are usually highly constrained, having only a limited repertoire of responses permitted to them; causal trajectories and paths of interaction are generally fixed, controlable and exclusive; driving forces are generally tangible and measurable.

"Normative analytical properties: Potentially total:- observability – measurability – manipulability – predictability.

"Amenability to inference and induction: Given initial state conditions, future states may be induced with a high probability of accuracy" (1973, p.97).

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