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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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RANDOMNESS (Constrained) 1)

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The limitation in randomness which results from the scaling process.

The scaling process defines more and more precise limits for the possible position of any structural element in a system (which may be for example the bronchioles in the lung, or a fine detail in the representation of the WEIERSTRASS function).

At any level, it is still impossible to exactly pinpoint the position of the element. In other words, randomness never disappears completely, but can be evermore reduced in space as well as in time.

This gives a firm base to the concept of ergodic relation.

From the viewpoint of the WEIERSTRASS function, the remaining randomness at any level corresponds to the imposibility to differenciate the function at any time.

It should however be noted that this randomness constrained by scaling excludes the case of giant fluctuations in systems far away from equilibrium (or possibly, such giant fluctuations do manifest the emergence of scaling at a higher level).

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