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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.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

SYSTEMS FIELDS TAXONOMY 1)

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The following taxonomy has been established by R. RODRIGUEZ DELGADO (1992, p.1156), founder and leader of the systems movement in Spain. Some slight modifications and additions have been introduced (marked).

GENERAL APPROACHES

Theory of knowledge

Cognitive approaches

Systems philosophy

Systems ontology

Systems epistemology: (holism vs. reductionism)

Systems ethics

General semantics

Axiology

Aesthetics

General Systems Theory

Transdisciplinary approach

Generalization of main scientific principles

In monodisciplinary sciences

In interdisciplinary sciences

THEORIES OF GENERAL SYSTEMICS USE2):

(all added)

Communication and information theories

Cybernetics (1st, 2nd and of 2nd order)

Taxonomy of living systems

Thermodynamics of near and far-fromequilibrium systems

Theory of catastrophes

Theory of deterministic chaos

Theory of fractals

Theory of games

Theory of networks and automata

Theories of autopoiesis and autonomy

Theories of artificial intelligence and life

Theory of hierarchical levels

Topology

Systems methodologies

General methods (metaphors, analogies, linkages, isomorphisms)

Co-participative design

Formal and special languages

Operational research

Reconstructability analysis

Systems analysis

Systems dynamics

Specific models based on above theories

APPLIED SYSTEMS AREAS

Biological systems

Ecosystems

Economic systems

Familiar therapy

Man-machine systems

Political science

Praxiology

Socio-technical systems

Sociosystems (including animal ones)

Systems education

Systems engineering

Systems management

SYSTEMIC INSTRUMENTS

Simulation models

Electronics

Graphics

Informatics (i.e. computer science), etc…

Categories

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

Publisher

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

To cite this page, please use the following information:

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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