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Any active element in a network.
Any connector normally receives and transmits messages (through a great variety of means, according to the type of network).
It may also be able to store information and to load the messages it transmits.
In very dense networks, many connectors are redundant, which allows in case of necessity for their functional substitution if they are eliminated, at least up to some limit.
In languages, connectors are "signs that combine (or separate) the meaning of two or more signs" (R.L. ACKOFF & F.E. EMERY, 1972, p.175). Examples are the words "and, or, plus, minus" or their mathematical equivalents.
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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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