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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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RELIABILITY of a machine 1)3)

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An evaluation of the capacity of a machine or system to functionally survive the breakdown or impairment of some of its parts.

In parallel or neural networks and generally in complex systems, the breakdown of some elements or some unexpected inputs do not usually inhibits seriously the system's capacities, or limits only slightly its operative power. This is because computing or operation is distributed in the whole of the parallel network, which is considerably redundant.

However, when disabled, the network must undergo a reorganizing process, in order to create new internal connections to replace those which have been destroyed. A good example is the reconstruction of physical abilities and knowledge in persons which have been affected by a not overly destructive cerebral haemorrhage.

The subject of global realibility in neural computation based on unreliable components has been first considered by J.von NEUMANN (1956).

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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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