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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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KNOWLEDGE (Taxonomy of the ways of generation, representation and processing of) 2)

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T. ÖREN did elaborate a general taxonomy of knowledge representation and processing (1990, p.1-55).

His general focus is on informatics and computer processing and his vocabulary is, accordingly, more or less specialized. This terminology should be carefully evaluated in comparison with its commonly accepted meanings.

Moreover his concept of knowledge is very close to the concept of information and quite close to the meaning given to the word "knowledge" in expert systems. This is practically in frontal contradiction with H.von FOERSTER's view: Knowledge is not a commodity.

However, it is also interesting to ponder ÖREN's ideas from various different viewpoints, as for example:

- Similarities and differences between natural and artificial intelligence;

- Brain organization and neuro-chemistry;

- Artificial and natural neural nets and connection machines;

- Learning processes;

Here is a list of ÖREN's taxonomic tables, reproduced, in logical order:

Taxonomy of:

- factual knowledge

- knowledge generation

- knowledge acquisition

- knowledge location

- knowledge analysis

- knowledge selection

- knowledge evaluation

- knowledge organization

- knowledge transformation

- knowledge generation by experimental techniques

- knowledge generation by nonexperimental techniques

- knowledge dissemination

→ See also:

- Program (rules for input and output of knowledge in a computer)

- Knowledge (A pragmatic and operative view)

- Transducer

- Machine-learning system (Elements and basic functions of)

Categories

  • 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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