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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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INLET 1)4)

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A channel or pocket within a system or subsystem.

An inlet corresponds to the penetration of part of the environment within the system. It is however more of a kind of internal extension of the boundary. In some sense, the whole of the digestive or the respiratory tract for example, could be considered as inlets, since their exchanges with the system proper take place only locally and through specific input (or output) transducers.

Inlets may end up as inclusions if the connection with the environment is completely severed. Such inclusions are generally, but not always, assimilated or eliminated after some time.

Social, economic and cultural analogies could be explored, as for example, foreign commercial communities within some nations or empires: Venetian or Genovese establishments within the Byzantine Empire was possibly a case.

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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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