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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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PLANNING (Generic and General) 1)

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J. WARFIELD states that "Planning for isolated entities in (complex) societies is becoming more and more unrealistic, in the face of interactions that cut across domains once viewed as relatively independent. In recognition of this situation, the question of how to change planning to make it more responsive to the new complexities has become very timely…

"In recognition of the broad nature of the challenge to improve planning so that it can span interdependent domains, it is appropriate to work from a comprehensive and fundamental perspective. With such a perspective, the future of planning might be thought to depend on documented research. The research might be thought to require a theoretical component, an empirical component, and an integration of the theoretical with the empirical. A further condition might be imposed that rigorous criteria would be applied to the integration and that quality control might be exercised through the continuous assessment of any science of design that might be proposed as well as to the application of such a science.

"The concept of generic planning might be set forth as a way of distinguishing this broader view of planning from the concept of specific planning that might be used to describe what has typically gone on in the past. Finally the idea of general planning might be taken as the comprehensive name for the integration of generic and specific planning to form the ultimate total body concerning all planning" (1991 c, p.92).

WARFIELD's statement can be considered as a kind of general manifest about what systemic planning should try to achieve.

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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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