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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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INTER-INFLUENCES 1)2)4)

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C. HARDY uses the concept of inter-influences between elements and processes as a general key to self-organization (1998)

Inter-influences do not only concern interactions, nor even recurrent feedbacks between elements.

In fact, inter-influences can never be perfectly described, and still less perfectly understood.

Multiples inter-influences are a basic characteristic of networks of all kinds. But they must be considered in relation to the space and time features of the network. Space is never really isotropic from the viewpoint of propagation of effects.

From the same viewpoint, no propagation is ever instantaneous and, moreover, the velocities are not isochronous and time lags fragment the general determinism of the network and may introduce a certain measure of chaos.

This partly explains the special type of self-organization known as self-organized criticality.

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