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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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RECONSTRUCTABILITY ANALYSIS (Inconsistencies in) 2)

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G. KLIR states: "Two kinds of inconsistency in structure are distinguished in R.A.: Local and global inconsistencies. Local inconsistency pertains only to variables that are shared by two or more elements of the given structure system. Any two elements that share some variables are locally inconsistent if their characterizations of the shared variables are not exactly the same. A structure system is globally inconsistent if all parts of its elements are locally consistent and, yet, the reconstruction family is empty.

"Local inconsistencies are usually caused by the fact that the individual elements of a structure system are not perfect models of reality. They are developed from or validated by different data sets, each of which is incomplete, imprecise, or otherwise imperfect in some specific sense peculiar to it. Hence, local inconsistencies are a result of our ignorance regarding the subsystems involved and, consequently, it is maningful to try to resolve them by a suitable method. At this time, however, research in this area is still in its infancy.

"Local as well as global inconsistences can also be treated by rejecting the information that creates them."(1986, p.269)

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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