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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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"Information that attempts to predict disturbances before they actually affect the system" (Adapted from M.C. JACKSON, 1992, p.99).

Information about past events can in many cases be ordered and used to forecast possible future events. Such knowledge can then be used to try to correct the course of these forecasted events. The concept is fuzzily transferred from engineering.

M.D. RUBIN describes technical feedforward devices in the following terms: "Feedforward occurs when a part of the input Signal is also fed around the amplifier and is in some way combined with the output of the amplifier for further processing, in such a way that the output signal is not recirculated through the amplifier" (1968, p.18).

This is thus some kind of buffer device, used to damp possible wild fluctuations. "Forward" seems to imply the intention to control these fluctuations, whose possibility is foreseen.

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