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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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SYSTEM (Generative) 2)

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Any systemic model sufficiently general to be used to represent the set of possible transformations for a category of systems.

G. KLIR states: "Since the overall relations among basic variables and those derived from them by various translation rules (e.g. lagged variables) can be utilized for describing a process by which states of the basic variables are generated within the delimited support set, systems on this level are called generative systems".

KLIR gives as examples: "Finite-state machines (deterministic or probabilistic), Markov chains, and differential equations with constant coefficients", and adds: "Each of them characterizes a relation among the variables involved, which does not change with the relevant support set (time or space set). This relation makes it possible to generate specific data sets, one for each initial or boundary condition and for a given support set" (1991, p.53).

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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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