BCSSS

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.

About

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.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

FUSCHL GROUP 1)4)

A group of members of various systemics societies who meet every two years in the Austrian town of FUSCHL (near SALZBURG).

The Fuschl Group basic tenet is that systems concepts should be applied in a useful manner to the better co-participative (i.e., with the effective participation of all the stakeholders) management of human systems. Its original mentor was B.H. BANATHY. The members, generally about 20 of them, organize themselves in workshops around some 3 or 4 pre-defined thema. Some months before the meeting, each member mails to the others an "input paper" in which she/he states her/his views on the subject she/he selected as of her/his main interest. However, no so-called papers are presented at the meeting, which is entirely dedicated to "open conversations".

At the end of the meeting, each workshop offers a statement of its views about the debated subject. A general report is prepared later on for the International Federation for Systems Research, which sponsors the meetings.

The members commit themselves to use and promote the practical proposals and methods produced by the "conversations".

Some of the main thema of the recent conversations have been:

- Development in systemic terms

- Models for a better education

- Models for a better social organization

- Methodology of co-participative design

Supplementary Fuschl conversations are organized during interim periods, in other countries (Spain, Greece, United States, etc…).

The Fuschl Group also sponsored the publication of the "International Systems Science Handbook" (1993), whose edition was organized by R. ROORIGUEZ OELGADO, founder of the Spanish Society for General Systems.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

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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