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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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FITNESS FUNCTION 2)5)

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The criteria by which sets of rules can be selected to create an evolutionary process aimed at evolving a self-replicating automaton.

M. SIPPER and JA. REGGIA (2001) devised a "fitness function composed of a weighted sum of three measures: a growth measure (the extend to which each component type generates an increasing supply of that component), a relative position measure (the extend to which neighboring components stay together) and a replicant measure (a function of the number of the actual replicatory elements present)

With the right fitness function, evolution can turn rule sets that are sterile into ones that are fecund; the process usually takes 150 or so generations".

"The ability to replicate without a self-description may be relevant to questions about how the earliest biological replicators originated. In a sense, researchers are seeing a continuum between non-living and living structures"(p. 31-35)

→ Artificial life; Cybernetics (2); Evolution (Artificial); Game of life (Conway); Neural network; Para lied distributed processing; Weights (Synaptic)

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