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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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OPTIMUM (Dynamic) 1)2)

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In a growth process, the moment at which the growth coefficient reaches its maximum, (C. GINI, 1952, p. 18)

C. GINI, an Italian demographer, used the concept in the study of populations growth, specially as related to the logistic growth model introduced by P. VERHULST (1838)

Dynamic optimum is a fleeting moment, after which growth starts to loose momentum, due generally to negative feedbacks from the environment of the system. Such feedbacks are in fact a response of the environment to the pressure that the system exerts on it, as for example an excessive use of non-renewable (or even renewable) resources, or the environment saturation, as a receiver of the outputs of the system. This can be for instance market over-saturation due to excessive production, or poisoning of the environment by unassimilable waste.

The question as if a dynamic optimum could be improved, by which means, and at which costs, remains open.

→ Growth (logistic); logistic equation

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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