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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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GATE ELEMENT 2)

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A processor through which the system receives or emits. the inputs or outputs which affect its behavior (definition adapted from J.L.LE MOIGNE, 1977, p.89).

LE MOIGNE uses this concept, proposed by KLIR and LÖFGREN as a part of his general model of the system.

These processors constitute a finite set:"… they play a specially privileged part in the definition of the "Système Général" in view that it is through these that the Representation System (i.e. the observer) observes the behavioral sequences of the object to be modelized (Ibid).

LE MOIGNE adds: "It results from this definition that a closed system has no gates (i.e. boundary) ! Or in a less paradoxical fashion, that its environment is empty" (Ibid).

Let us remember that it would be better to speak of an "isolated system", which is a pure abstraction and no model of any concrete system.

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