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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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COOPERATION 1)

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N. TINBERGEN wrote already in 1965 in his "Social Behavior in Animals" that the result of cooperation of individuals is continually tested and checked and thus the group determines Ultimately, through its efficiency, the properties of the individual.

It is now well understood that cooperation is a special aspect of interaction within networks in a specific environment. Each individual or element is communicating with a number of other ones within the group or the species or, in case of men, the organizations in which it participates.

In many cases, but not all, it is also directly related to some specific part of the environment and serves as a transmitter of the environment reactions to its activity and, in some cases, to the activities of other members of the group. It (or she/he) may then, willingly or not, have to pay for some ill adjusted proper or groupal behavior.

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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