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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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RECRUITMENT 1)4)

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The addition of new elements or replacement of lost ones in a system by elements obtained from another one.

Recruitment takes place either when a system has been severely reduced by some disturbance (an ecosystem after a hurricane f. ex.), or when it is growing (a country accepting immigrants). The new elements need be compatible with the system, while not necessarily similar to any former or still existing ones, in order to avoid rejection or subsequent internal disorder.

In ecosystems according to S. REICE: "Recruitment has a major impact on the outcome of competition and, consequently, on community structure. This idea, dubbed supply side ecology by R. LEWIN, asserts that physical transport processes are important determinants of community structure because they set the supply of colonists to habitat patchwork" (1994, p.432).

Recruitment is at least in part a random process, as the identity of the new elements is never perfectly defined. It may as well deeply modifiy the identity of the recruiting system. S. REICE states: "Stochastic (random) recruitment in a heterogeneously disturbed, patchy environment results in high overal species diversity" (p.427).

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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