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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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UNIVERSAL PROPERTY 2)

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"A property that does not change under a renormalized group transformation" (G. MAYERKRESS, 1988, p.357).

The author states: "… the base idea is to determine how a given system behaves under a transformation which changes the scale and also perform a symmetry operation (Ibid).

He proposes the interesting idea of an inverse reconstruction of the Cantor segment, starting from the "dust" of points obtained in the Cantor set after fractalization. In this way "more and more of the gap are covered with solid intervals… (and finally) we arrive at only one single segment interval" (Ibid).

In this way a complex whole is constructed by the sole use of one specific, well defined iterative transformation. This could be done also, for example, with the WEIERSTRASS function and lead to the idea that complexity may result from the scaling, level by level, of some very simple rule or rules of transformation.

→ Game of life; Reconstructability analysis; Stigmergy

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