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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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NETWORK BEHAVIOR 1)2)

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R. ROSEN observes: "… the essential thing… is that the behavior of (such) a network is always the outcome of an interaction of pairs of antagonistic activities, one of which excites a particular response, and the other inhibits it" (1974c, p.171).

ROSEN uses the terms "inducer" and "repressor" to name such paired but antagonistic processes.

Thus the network behavior is basically digital, or binary, even if this aspect may be quite obscured by the numerous simultaneous interactions that constantly occur.

From another angle, it seems that natural networks, as for instance a river basin, or a system of geological plates, are globally able to minimize their energy expenditures, in accordance with some few implicit optimization rules. (YAM, 1994, p.17). This recently discovered and intriguing feature is still under investigation.

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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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