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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 BASED SYSTEMS: An evaluation 3)5)

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Peter J. DENNING writes:

"Knowledge based systems (KBSs) are founded on the assumption that an expert works from a complete theory of the domain. Once a theory is articulated as a set of rules and stored in a database, the superior power of the computer can draw inferences much faster than the expert…".

What is thus not acomplished "… cannot be blamed on a lack of computering power, memory, research effort or cooperation of experts.

An explanation gaining credence is that experts themselves do not work from complete theories, and much of their expertise cannot be articulate in language" (1991, p.495).

It remains quite doubtful if any complete theory can be obtained of any specific domain. This limits somewhat the KBS modeling reliability, because computer treatment needs an algorithm, which does not incorporates new "hunches" or renewed intuition. However KBSs can be progressively perfected.

In any case: "Education that equates expertise with models can inhibit the development of good judgement" (Ibid.).

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
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