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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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METASYSTEM PARADIGM 2)3)

"… A form of metamodeling which is used to conceptualize and study decision-making in complex hierarchical systems at several levels of recursion" (J.van GIGCH, 1986a, p.3).

van GIGCH explains: "… the organization is conceptualized as a hierarchy of control systems. A control system consists of a controller (CR) which exercises control over a controlled system (CS) which in turn, interacts with an environment (E). At the same time, there exists another controller – a metacontroller (MCR) – which exercises control over the control system C, made up of CR,CE, and E. The addition of a meta-metacontroller (MCR') defines control at the second level of recursion where MCR' exercises control over the control system C' made up of CR', and CS', and E'. It is to be noted that MCR from the first level of recursion becomes CR' at the second. Similarly, the control system C becomes CS'. Environment E and E' are not necessarily equivalent or isomorphic" (1986b, p.69).

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  • 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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