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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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A device that operates a specific transformation within a system or an exchange between the system and its environment.

This notion, introduced by J.L.LE MOIGNE, corresponds approximately to the concept of critical subsystem of J.G. MILLER and somewhat less so to J. FORRESTER's gates.(1973).

LE MOIGNE states: "The elemental processor can be identified in a general way by various characteristics whose definition shall frequently guide the model builder: In "extensity", it can be recognized by its capacity (of storage, transportation, production) or its power, in intensity by its output, or its level, or its efficacity, or its yield (a numerical relation between the output and the input at a given moment), or by its efficiency (a relation, possibly even qualitative, between its observed behavior and the hoped for behavior)" (1977, p.79).

LE MOIGNE observes that :"A priori an elemental processor may well process various kinds of flows: various inputs and various outputs. It may also be affected by different fields, which may influence the stability in time of its behaviors" (Ibid).

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