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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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TAXONOMIES of systems 1)

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Systems and their components have been classified from different viewpoints by a number of systemists, as for example K. BOULDING (1956), J.G. MILLER (1978) and G. KLIR (1969) in the States and E. JANTSCH (1975), J.L.LE MOIGNE (1977), B. WALLISER (1977) and J. LESOURNE (1976) in Europe. P. VOLTES BOU (of Barcelona) (1978) and B. WALLISER (1977) have also proposed a classification of models types.

L. TRONCALE intended a general classification of cybernetic and systemic isomorphies (1985).

As each pursues some specific finality, none of these taxonomies is exclusive of the others, while some are in part coincident. None should be considered as the ultimate truth, as they are merely kind of general maps of a very complex field and, moreover tend as any classification, to be somewhat procustean: cutting or adding characteristics to suit the general idea. In any case, they are useful and a practical necessity.

CHANG-GEN-BAHG more recently tried to establish a taxonomy of systems theories and a "system of systems sciences ", including "systemology, systems methodology and systems engineering" (1990. p. 79-107).

→ "Systems (Basic classes of)".

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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