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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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APPROACH (The Ten Commandments of the systemic) 1)2)

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J .de Rosnay enumerates as follows the "10 Commandments of the Systemic Approach"

1. To keep variety

2. Not to open the feedback loops (i.e. not destroy the regulators)

3. To seek the amplification points

4. To establish equilibria through decentralization

5. To maintain constraints

6. To differentiate in order to improve integration

7. To evolve, by reaction to aggression

8. To prefer objectives instead of detailed programming

9. To know how to use energy (contained within information) for management

10. To respect reaction delays" (1975, p.122-127)

It is obviously possible to imagine other "commandments", less limited to human systems and, of course less operative, as for example:

- to define as precisely as possible the significant environment of the system

- to clearly define the main objective of the system and its subsidiary ones

- to find out the different rhythms of activities of the system and discover their interrelations

- to determine the degree of maturity of the growing system: just born, or emergent, in steady state, or in the process of sclerosis.

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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