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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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PROBLEM FORMULATION 2)

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The statement as precise as possible of the unsatisfactory situation or issue, in relation to the possibilities to correct it.

Apart from the difficulties of the diagnosis, problem formulation depends on the viewpoint of different stakeholders. The unilateral view of only one or some of them, when imposed through the use of authority, frequently leads to new problems.

Given these caveats, we can follow K. KRIPPENDORFF's description: The problem can be identified by specifying:

"a) the undesirable and problematic state currently occupied,

"b) the resources currently available to move away from that problematic state, particularly the available courses of actions, the combinatorial constraints on using them, etc, and

"c) the criteria that need to be satisfied to say that a problem no longer exists or is solved" (1986, p.61).

J. WARFIELD's Interpretive Structural Modeling seems to be the most efficient methodology for problem formulation.

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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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