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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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INHIBITING EFFECTS 1)2)

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The negative effects on efficiency or growth of elements, populations, or subsystems due to excessive closeness or overcrowding.

Any element or subsystem needs a sufficient space for its correct functioning. Furthermore, it benefits from heterogenity, because it diminishes unfavorable competition between elements of the same type when they are sufficient y spaced. In M. MARUYAMA words: "You would not build two post offices next to each other" (1994, p.80).

Spacing is thus useful, as it contributes to avoid inhibiting effects.

Another and more subtle type of inhibiting effects which has been discovered recently is the killing by a parasite fungus of the roots of the black cherry tree of saplings of the tree growing within about 15 meters of the adult one.

As the saplings of other trees are not affected, this amounts to a ecological dispersion mechanism

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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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