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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 SYSTEMS INSTITUTE 1)

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This Institute was created in 1980 in San Francisco by B. BANATHY and other Californian systemists. Its seat is now in Carmel, CA. "It is organized as a community of scholars and practitioners and a network of institutions. It aims to apply systems and design thinking to:

1. create models and methods for the design of eductional and other human activity systems and

2. to design and develop resources for systems and design learning" (as quoted from ISI folder).

ISI organizes international "conversations" that "provide opportunities for professional development in systems and design applications" (Ibid).

Its program "is carried out by Institute Fellows who pursue the work of ISI in their own organizations as well as in several ISI programs areas and research teams". (Ibid) ISI Fellows are from 20 different countries.

ISI has recently created a "Transnational Council" aiming at diminishing transcultural misunderstandings and conflicts. It is an active member of IFSR.

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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