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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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OSCILLON 2)

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A very simple oscillating pattern obtained by vibrating a thin layer of sand grains.

The oscillon was discovered by Paul UMBANBOWAR, Francisco MELO and Harry SWINNEY (Univ. of Texas at Austin).

It seems to be the very fundamental self-organizing pattern obtained by energy dissipation and leading to structuration.

Oscillons, according to SWEENEY, "can join together to form chains, triangular associations and even extended lattices – and all are stable". (as quoted by Marcus CHOWN, 1997).

CHOWN adds: "The square lattice (would be) simply the lowest-energy configuration of an even mix of attracting and repelling particles… (as in) an antiferromagnetic lattice (in which) each positively charged particle is surrounded by four negatively charged particles in a square lattice" and,… "By contrast, the lowest energy configuration of like-charged objects is a hexagonal lattice". (p.37)

→ Hexagonal space filling; Order parameter; Soliton; Structure (Dissipative); Symmetry (Hexagonal); Vortex

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