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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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MAXIMUM POWER PRINCIPLE 2)

"Systems which use energy best, survive" (H.& E. ODUM, 1976, p.39).

As enounced under this form in 1976 by H. and E. ODUM, this principle is different from LOTKA's one and seems somewhat over-simplified.

LOTKA seems to refer himself to complex ecosystems (The "world engine" being the most global one), but not to separated individual species.

H. ODUM himself recognized in 1983 that: "According to LOTKA's maximum power principle, systems tend to develop designs that maximize power and thus may be expected to develop loadings less than efficient" (1983, p.116, quoted by R.N. ADAMS). This author observes: "There is nothing in LOTKA's principle that implies that systems "tend to develop… maximum power". Indeed, LOTKA asserts that whether higher energy-using forms emerge is "determined by other principles" (ADAMS, 1988, p.38-39).

Saint Matthew's Principle

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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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