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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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PREDATORY BEHAVIOR 1)2)5)

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The behavior of a living organism that obtains the inputs it needs by capturing other organisms or by plundering some other environmental resource.

Practically all living beings eat some other living beings and are eaten by other in turn. This is one of the most basic facts of life and ecology.

The dynamics of the variable interrelations between predators and prey have been re searched mainly during the 20 C. by ecologists, demographers and mathematicians.

Two very important contributors have been V. VOLTERRA (1931) and A. LOTKA (1956)

Since the 1970's the subject has been widely reconsidered because some irregularities in the evolving and interrelated populations sequences of preys and predators could not be clearly explained. R. MAY has been possibly the main innovator in the field, by showing that "simple mathematical models" can produce "very complicated dynamics" 1976, 1977, 1987)

In fact, these now models have widely contributed to the elaboration of chaos theory, and, in turn, have benefit from other developments in the same theory

→ Dynamics (chaotic), Growth, Logistic equation

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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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