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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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COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (Physical) 5)

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The core of any communication system is a set of material devices organized in order to function in a sequential way: A transmitter, or sender, a channel and a receiver (or a multiplicity of receivers).

Visible, auditive or electro-magnetic signals circulate within the channel from transmitter to receiver, differentiated through the use of some code.

The correct transmission of the signals can be disturbed by some noise emitted by an outside source, which invades the channel.

It should again be stressed that "the technical system of cummunication does not take into account the meaning of the signals either at the encoding (transmitting) or the decoding (receiving) end" (O.S. AKHMANOVA, 1960, p.183).

However, communication systems as a whole are used to transmit messages, emitted by some sentient or intelligent being after previous codification through a language that must also be understandable by the receiver. In any intelligent communication there is thus at least a double sequential codification and, at the receiver's end, decodification.

In a telephone conversation, for example, three codes are succesively used: a language, the phonation and the electro-magnetic modulation.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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