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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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"The totality of scientific and technological problems (research and development) which, in spite of their variety and specificity, have one substantial feature in common

According to BLAUBERG et al.: "the main tasks of the logic and methodology of systems research may be listed as follows:

- the construction of conceptual means – systems of concepts, conceptual models of a special type, etc… – for the expression (representation) of the systems nature of corresponding objects.

- the evolvement of apparatus for the description of the most important characteristics of systems objects – connections (including their typology), systems of connections, interrelations of system and environment, the hierarchical structure of systems, problems of control, etc..

-the construction of formalized systems for the description of systems objects, including the formulation of specific rules of inference for such systems" (Ibid, p.88).

Categories

  • 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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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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