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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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ADAPTATION PLAN (Genetic) 2)

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A naturally existing, or artificially installed plan for adaptation in a system..

The adaptive plan must respond to the following fundamental questions, as stated by J. HOLLAND:

"To what parts of the environment is the organism (system, organization) adapting?

How does the environment act upon the adapting organism?

What structures are undergoing adaptation?

What are the mechanisms of adaptation?

What part of the history of its interaction with the environment does the organism retain?

What limits are there to the adaptive process?

How are the different hypotheses about adaptive processes to be compared?

Moreover, as we attempt to answer these questions in different contexts, essentially the same obstacles to adaptation appear again and again. They appear with different names and guises, but they have the same basic structure. For example, "nonlinearity", "false peak", and "epistasis effect" all designate versions of the same difficulty" (1992, p.2)

"False peak" is equivalent to "local optimum".

A general genetic adaptive plan may produce a number of different plans more precisely adapted to more specific conditions.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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