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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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TOOLS (Conceptual) 3)

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A set of concepts that can be used for the study of some classes of situations.

M. LlU describes as follows the general characteristics of systemic and cybernetic conceptual tools:

"1) Global approach tools characterize interactions, not objects. (They refers for example to: logics, values, attitudes which specify relations between entities).

"2) Such concepts do not describe intrinsic properties of reality,… but indicates some path to characterize some concrete reality.

"3) The conceptual tools emphasize what is general and what is specific. This means that they are not destined to discover only structures, which would be invariant in whatever situations, but are also useful to discover altogether the specific traits of every situation.

"4) They are non-disciplinary and apt to characterize the results of very numerous interactions related to different aspects" (1989, p.43).

In synthesis, the systemic-cybernetic conceptual tools allow us to find new knowledge algorithms related to complex wholes.

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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