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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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QUALITY CONTROL in Interactive Management 4)

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This is not quality control of material products. As understood by J. WARFIELD, it concerns attitudes related to management and planning, as well as to ethics in general systemic terms. WARFIELD specifies five key concerns in this sense:

" Concern for the client

" Concern for I.M. practitioners

" Concern for I.M. participants

" Concern for the reputation of I.M.

" Concern for the society as a whole" (pers.comm.)

Only this generally concerned attitude can avoid local or global negative side effects, of which we observe a growing number of increasing gravity. Consequently, WARFIELD considers that "Unless all five concerns can be dealt with favorably in the particular situation, activity should be terminated" (Ibid).

A very difficult problem remains: How to diffuse these views in societies that do not care?

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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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