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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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GENERAL THEORY OF SYSTEMS: Performance criteria 1)

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L. TRONCALE, who also prefers to speak of General Theory of Systems instead of General Systems Theory, proposes the following criteria for its satisfactory use: "It would:

- consist of precisely defined concepts

- be context-independent, invariant across all scales of magnitude, demonstrable in all disciplines

- require the use of the full set of isomorphies, that is the minimal, sufficient, and necessary set (probably large)

- require many specific linkages between isomorphies

- unobservable in one discipline

- unverifiable, unfalsifiable, even unrefinable, in one or a few disciplines

- apply to both descriptional and operational views

- describe both continuous and discrete systems

- be limited in its range of application only by the current state of applied knowledge

- possess built-in rules for desabstraction, scale translation protocols, or correspondence principles

- possess a built-in operational taxonomy

- have isomorphies and linkages that were self-organizing" (1985, p.79).

Most of these conditions do already exist, but merely in an implicit way. It should be the responsability of every systemist to understand and apply them in order to avoid the very nullification of systemic thinking and of its practical use as a global scientific methodology.

Categories

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

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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