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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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CONTROL: basic elements.(its five) 2)

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According to O. JOHANSEN BERTOGLIO (1985, p.184-85) a control system includes five basic parts:

a) a variable: this is the element (or programmed goal) that must be controlled. Let us say a car's velocity

b) sensors: or mechanisms or devices able to perceive the variable's fluctuations. In the car's velocity case, we need a velocimeter, our visual capacity and our brain's interpretative capacity

c) motors: or effectors, able to develop corrective action. In this case, they include neurons, nerves and our muscular system to move our foot to accelerate or brake

d) an energy source: needed for any kind of activity. We need our stored physical energy and also, the energy that moves the motor

e) feedbacks: which, by communication of the variable's state registered by the sensors, trigger the corrective action. In this case they are the decisions made by our brain.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
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