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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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NETWORKS AS IMPERFECTLY CONNECTED SYSTEMS 2)

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No working network could be totally and perfectly connected. It cannot be functional without a (limited) degree of leeway, or laxness. As said in terms of popular common sense: "All roads lead to Rome"(or anywhere else, or nowhere in particular)

In such a condition of indefinition the network is indetermined and cannot be usefully put to work.

And of course, if there are no connections at all between the elements, the network does not exist as such.

To become functional it must must acquire a more or less defined dynamic organization

It becomes partly determined in such a way when rules are introduced, defining a more or less wide variety of possible, but conditional transitions, together with other rules defining an adaptive dynamics (for ex. paralled distributed processing)

On the other hand, the specific conditions of space and time of the network limit the possible reaches of the rules.

→ Ecosystems dynamics; Graphs; Homeostat; Inter-influences; Isochronic; Isotropy; Markovian system; Multistat-Network (Parallel Processing); Stability (Poly-); Synaptic weight

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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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