OVERLOAD 2)
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Excessive density of pulses in a channel or set of communication channels.
Such a situation appears when an excessive number of transmitters and receptors have an access to the net and that there is no control device to restrict the possibilities to emit or receive messages in accordance with the maximal (global or local) capacity of the net.
Any overload leads to the disruption of parts of, or the whole net, frequently through chain reactions, (also typical of composite systems), which may well be irreversible.
The concept can be extended to any class of nets (electrical, informative, neural, social, etc…).
Categories
- 1) General information
- 2) Methodology or model
- 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
- 4) Human sciences
- 5) Discipline oriented
Publisher
Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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