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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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REFERENCE FRAME: Time – Space – Form 1)3)

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According to J.L.LE MOIGNE: "The modelizing power of the process concept is a result of the surprising simplicity of the transformations types: when an object (or a family of objects) is processed and identified, its processing will always be framed without ambiguity inside of a permanent triadic reference frame. To act or interfere upon a given object is to affect its position in time (always), in space, frequently (by transportation or transmission) and/or its form or morphology (transformation) Doing, acting intervening, functioning,changing or whatever, is in every case affecting the position of at least one object in a reference frame T.S.F.: i.e. Time, Space, Form" (1990a).

It seems useful to add that such a reference frame can exist only thanks to some form of energy which generates transformations of all types. One is indeed carried back to the basic group of irreductible concepts used within this dictionary: Energy, Time, Space and Matter.

Should one admit that information is a modulation of energy, nothing can seemingly escape from the T.S.F. reference frame or some equivalent one. Moreover, any object or system can thus be identified at any instant without any ambiguity or possible superposition within the reference frame.

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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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