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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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INVARIANCE (Systemic) 2)

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The degree of internal invariance of a system.

In E. LASZLO words: "Cohesiveness and continuity within the systems is higher, and rate of change lower, than in the relations between the systems" (1974, p.33).

Systemic invariance expresses the systems capacity for self-reproduction, self-reference, autopoiesis and organizational closure, as well self-replication by hypercycles. All these complementary properties gives them a considerable (if still limited) autonomy in their relations with their environment.

In fact, systemic invariance appears through global transdisciplinary models whose general characteristics apply to a significant number of systems of quite different kinds.

However, when modelized at a sufficient level of abstraction, the distinct models show common structural characteristics and functional behavior. As a result, the models are isomorphic (not so the systems or entities) and the general invariant properties of the systems become recognizable.

→ Isomorphisms and Homomorphisms

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