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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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MATRIX BUILDER 2)3)

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A general heuristic tool to be used to discover significant interconnections in the whole systemic field.

This was a L. TRONCALE proposal during the fourth FUSCHL conversations.(1985, p.73). Its present status is unfortunately uncertain.

According to TRONCALE: "This tool would aid a user in identifying key parameters of a problem using general morphology, then use these to built several axes which describe a multidimensional space. Each axis would represent a distinct and separate, but critically important approach to the problem under study. Comparison between the axes would create many multidimensional intersect spaces… Each… would contain information on how the various categories of the various taxonomies of parameters (represented by all axes) interact with each other. In this way, each particular of each taxonomy should be systematically compared with each particular of the other categories and taxonomies. Each connection specified in an intersect would be explained in semantic terms, linked to literature or data, and… would serve as a point of departure for tracing to other connections. This tool would combine features of expert systems, relational data bases, and some unique, new capabilities into a user-oriented tool".

In synthesis, the matrix builder could become a meta-taxonomic tool.

The present work may somehow be considered as a not-formalized and quite partial version in colloquial English of a matrix builder.

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  • 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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