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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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ORDER and ENTROPY 1)2)

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K.D. BAILEY comments: "a high degree of order indicates a system which has a low degree of entropy, and high degrees of energy, information and negentropy. Conversely, a system showing a low degree of integration has high entropy, with low information, energy and negentropy, We have specifically excluded the terms "complexity" and "organizational complexity" as they have not been adequately defined in the literature" (1987, p.92).

However, highly dynamic systems produce more entropy than the others, thanks to the absorbed energy, that they dissipate to order themselves. But, while they conserve or in crease the acquired order, they export more entropy towards the environment. This is why some authors say – creating some confusion – that entropy grows with order. It should be said that order may grow locally only if entropy grows globally, as the ordering system produces more entropy but exports it toward the environment.

See: Maxwell's Demon Paradox.

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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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