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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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CENTRALIZATION (Progressive) 1)2)

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Emergence of a part of the system, which starts to act as a global center of regulation and control (According to A.D. HALL & R.E. FAGEN, 1956, p.22).

As the complexity of the system increases, the coordination between its numerous differentiated functions become more necessary and, at the same time, more difficult. This coordination, however, takes place automatically by the interplay of countervailing regulations at different hierarchical levels.

The global center of coordination appears at the higher level and must in principle take charge only of the most general problems which are significant for the system as a whole.

It can be said that centralization becomes excessive when the global center of coordination starts meddling inefficiently with local or specific problems, encroaching on the regulation centers activity at lesser levels.

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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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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