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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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SQUEEZING EFFECT 2)4)

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The pressure of some environmental factor on a number of loose elements, generally of the same kind.

The general result of the effect is to transform the loose elements into a more or less organized and structured group, with some collective behavior.

The environmental pressure can be of many different kinds, as in the following examples:

- the decrease of food disponibilities which induces the social state of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

- the pressure exerted by some predator on a more or less scattered group of preys

- some collectively perceived danger (fire, gunfire) which produces a panic in a human crowd.

- the general underlying factor is the shortening of the distance between the elements, which enhances the possibilities for new and closer relationships through a stronger reciprocal perception, Squeezing effects seem to be closely related to the appearance of all kind of languages (biophysical, biochemical, gestural or spoken) and seem to be the main root of possible further cooperation.

→ Congeries; Crowding effect; Effect (Herd); Effect (Mass); Effect (Positional)

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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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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