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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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W.D. GROSSMANN and K.E.F. WATT stress that "there is an increase in amplitude and decrease in wavelength of all major wave-like oscillations in society… This gradual decrease in wavelength is striking in graphs plotting year by year, from 1740 to the present, the wholesale price index adjusted for its long-run trajectory value".

This implies a rapid "decrease of time-spans for reactions" with the aggravating factor that economic and political leaders are generally unaware of this situation.

The authors give other examples and evaluate this phenomenon as of "Severity rating 1" (1992, p.35).

This phenomenon is closely related to evolutive acceleration and both seem to indicate the progressive dominance of chaotic behavior in human systems, highly probably in relation to the exponential growth of energy use.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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