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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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SEARCH CONFERENCES 1)4)

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Search conferences were proposed by F.E. EMERY(1993). M. JACKSON describes them as follows: "(They) emerged from socio-technical systems theory and aim to involve people in the creation of their own future. They promote the development of democratically self-managed groups and insist that all those directly involved in a situation should participate.

In the case of groups exceeding the recommended fifteen to thirty people for a single search conference, parallel multi-search conferences are organized. They work within organizational and community contexts to "rationalize conflict", provide a thorough understanding of environmental issues and constraints,and to promote learning" (2000, p.310)

Fuschl and Asilomar Conversations can be seen in this light, but it should be made clear that they do not include formal presentations and discussion of papers and that the agenda itself is constructed through open and free debate among the partcipants.

→ Assumptions; Brainstorming; Codes (Linguistic and semantic); Communication (Human); Consensus; Conversation; Design inquiry; Frame of reference; Language; Observer

Categories

  • 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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

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