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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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WEAR 1)

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The gradual impairment of a device or system.

Wear is a universal phenomenon in natural as well as in artificial systems, obviously connected with entropy's increase. P. WINIWARTER and C. CEMPEL, who investigated wear, define the following aspects of the wear problem:

- Waer leads timely to the destruction of the system. In natural system "wear causes death". In artificial ones, it leads to breakdown.

- "Wear amplifies wear, a positive feedback leading to autocatalytic or nonlinear behavior".

- It is possible to define the notion of breakdown time, which "is determined by the internal structure of the system and the way of energy dissipation inside the system".

- Systems have a "life curve", reflecting the wear process. It can be more or less defined and used for "diagnosis and prognosis" (1992, p.23-26).

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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