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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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SIMULATION (Systemic) 1)2)

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Systemic simulation implies very difficult problems. It has to reproduce in a satisfactory way the nonlinear character of the complex system to be modelled (once well and clearly defined in relation to the modelizer aims) and their possible chaotic behavior.

There seems to be still much ground to cover in order to complete a good theory of such simulation.

H. PRAEHOFER states: "Through the complexity of real systems, a fully comprehensive model of a real system is infeasible to build." (1991, p.300, quoting B. ZEIGLER). He adds: "Modeling always means idealization, abstraction, and simplification. Only some aspects, the aspects of the real system relevant for the objectives in hand, may be incorporated into the model" (Ibid).

Until now the best systemic modelization methodology seems to be ZEIGLER's "Multifacetted modeling methodology whose central concept is the "system entity structure" (1994, p.169-178).

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