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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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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMS SCIENCES 1)

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Formerly: "Society for General Systems Research".

This was the original Society, created in 1956 in the U.S. by the founders: L.von BERTALANFFY, K. BOULDING, A. RAPOPORT and other scientists of various disciplines.

It has presently national divisions in Asia, Australia, Europe and North and South America, as well as a number of chapters in various states of the U.S., all represented in the ISSS Council. The Society has a number of Special Interest Groups (S.l.G.s) interested in specific uses of Systems concepts and models, as for example Law, Systems Epistemology, Climate change, Psychology, Informatics, etc… It publishes a quarterly "General Systems Bulletin" with announcements, comments, membership information, reviews and directories. It has also published annually for 28 years an important "General Systems Yearbook", with valuable collections of papers. (suspended since 1985).

It organizes a yearly meeting with numerous systemists who present and discuss their ideas.

The Society sponsors some of the main journals in the field:

- International Journal of General Systems (Ed. G. KLIR)

- Systems Research (Ed. M. JACKSON) fused 1997

- Behavioral Science (Ed. J.G. MILLER) fused 1997

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

To cite this page, please use the following information:

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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