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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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SINGULARITY (Bifurcation) 1)2)

CI BRUTER describes its two principal properties as follows:

"Bifurcation appear for values of the bifurcation variables forming void measures sets in the variables space of the bifurcation." (1989, p.449)

Bifurcation singularities are very unusual situations!

"For these singular values, mathematical objects show degenerated forms."

"All this corresponds to very understandable physical situations. If the structure of any object is to be modified, it must first pass through a dissolution phase of the initial structure, at least, partly".

"This phase is only transitory, in view that the object looses its inmediate qualities of stability"(Ibid).

BRUTER cites the example of insects metamorphosis, in which "… the chrysalid's formation leads to the practical dissolution of all the organic systems… quickly followed by a assembling phase in which the organic systems of the adult insect are elaborated from special embryonic cells." (Following DENTON: 1988)

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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