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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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REGRESSION (Organizational) 1)4)

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The return to a former and lesser level of organization.

This notion has been introduced by E. SCHWARZ (1992, p. 771-2) who applies it mainly to human systems.

He writes: "We should mention the distinction between the dynamic coherent differentiation of the morphogenetic phase…, and the chaotic fragmentation of structures that often occurs in the alea sector around the bifurcation, in system fragilized by a tropic drift incompatible with their components and/or their environment. The destructuration of the ex-USSR giving way to pre-communist countries, and the destructuration of the Federation of Russia giving way to ethnic states, is an impressive example of a multiple turn organizational regression" (Ibid).

Tribal wars in Africa after the demise of global colonial political structures are another example.

This process reflects the implicit persistence of parts at lesser levels of organization within great complex systems.

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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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