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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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CORRELATION (Directive) 2)

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Permanent or at least recurrent interrelation entailing a reciprocal control between two or more functions in a system, such as their interconnected action converges toward some coherent behavior.

G. SOMMERHOFF defines this concept in a formalized way (1969, p.174-5) and proposes it as a suitable alternative to the so-called "Goal-directness", which has finalists overtones.

Directive correlations undergo reinforcements with time. They are the base of all types of adaptation, on short, medium or long term (p.177-81). They seem closely linked with the concepts of self-regulation, autopoiesis, organizational closure and hypercycle.

G. SOMMERHOFF emphasizes moreover that "Every directive correlation has a precise signification only in relation to the historical period of reference" (p.187). The most robust directive correlations are those which correspond to the oldest and most confirmed adaptations.

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