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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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REFLEXIBILITY 2)3)

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Norma ROMM connects reflexibility to interdisciplinary practice, in which both agents are at the same time participant and observer (1998, p.67, as quoted from BAWDEN by Romm)

She also tackles the difference between interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity, which "often amounts to a dialogue of the deaf in which incompatible research approaches are pursued in parallel with little or no communication between them : (as quoted from M. JONES in his paper "It all depends what you mean by discipline")

In fact in multidisciplinary meetings, reflexibility becomes generally drowned in a confuse and overbearing noise.

In a note in her paper N. Romm makes some observations about transdisciplinarity, but disclaims any intention to develop this aspect.

This is lamentable because it would seem that transdisciplinarity emerges as a set of practices by disciplinary specialists acting among them in a constant reflexive way that leads them to create multi-cross- (i.e. trans-) disciplinarian concepts and models.

S.L. PAYNE reworked the subject in a subsequent article, but the differences between interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity remain still unstated (1999, p. 173-181). This is quite obvious in the general litterature.

→Cross disciplinarity; Living systems; Taxonomies of systems

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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