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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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PARAMETER (SYSTEM) 1)2)

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"A system property which has a universal domain of application, i.e. which can be ascribed to any system" (I.V. BLAUBERG, V.N. SADOVSKY and E.G. YUDIN, 1977, p.184).

These authors adopt this term forged by A. UYEMOV and give the following examples of system parameters:

"A system is autoregenerative in elements… if it is capable of regenerating its elements in the process of functioning.

… and it is autoregenerative in relations (or relation autoregenerative)… if it is capable of restoring relations between elements" (Ibid).

These two system parameters have, jointly, the same meaning as MATURANA and VARELA's autopoiesis.

The authors add: "If a system is capable of regenerating its elements or relations under the effect of other systems it is called externally regenerative in elements (externally determined element regenerative)… or externally regenerative in relation (externally determined relation regenerative).

"The system is immanent…, if the set of elements and the set of correlates of the system forming relation coincide.

"If the system is destroyed when a single element is eliminated it is called minimal…

"Systems preserving their identity under structural changes are structurally stable" (Ibid).

This list of systems parameters can be much extended. The notion seems close to the concept of isomorphy.

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