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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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RESEARCH (Pre-systemic) 1)3)

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I. BLAUBERG et al thus characterize pre-systemic research: "Investigation consisted mostly in 'decomposing' the object under study into parts and in their qualitative description, assuming that it was possible to construct a unique and exhaustive theoretical model of the object that would not depend on the problem being solved or on the methodological apparatus used" (1977, p.119).

In comparison with this method: "The system approach… proceeds from the fact that the specific features of an object (system) are not exhausted by the pecularities of its constituent elements, but are rooted first and foremost in the character of the connections and relations between its elements. Moreover, a complex object is usually a hierarchical polystructured and multi-level formation whose various aspects are studied by different sciences" (Ibid).

Two basic aspects of the systemic methodology thus appear: The need to avoid severing significant connections and the need for reciprocal understanding between disciplines by the use of suitable models of these connections.

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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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