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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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MULTI-AGENTS SYSTEM STRUCTURE 2)

J. FERBER describes (1999) the multi-agents system, which includes the following aspects:

"1- an environment, that is, a space which generally has a volume

2-a set of objects that is situated, that is to say that it is possible at a given moment to associate any object with a position in the environment. Some objects are passive, that is they can perceived, created, destroyed and modified by active objects (note of ed.: active objects are supposedly "agents"

3-an assembly of agents, which are specific objects, representing the active objects of the system

4-an assembly of relations, which link objects (and thus agents) to each other

5-an assembly of operations, making it possible for the agents to perceive, produce, consume, transform, and manipulate objects.

6-operators with the task of representing the application of these operations and the reaction of the world to this attempt at modification, which we shall call the laws of the universe" (1999)

To speak here of "the world"and the "laws of the universe"seems a bit of an overstatement. Possibly the author wanted to say "environment"

In any case, this proposed model seems applicable to a number of quite different types of self-organizing systems (natural or artificial)

Artificial life; Parallel distributed processing; Relations; Stigmergy; Swarm; Zero system

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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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