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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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RESOLUTION LEVEL 1)3)

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The level of discrimination used by an observer to study an object or a concrete system.

By means of appropriate instruments, for example various types of microscopes, an observer can obtain different resolution degrees, which could not be obtained by the use of his or her physiological senses only.

R. VALLÉE states: "Many of the concepts of the systems theory depend on the observation process" (1990, p.54), i. e. the resolution level, a notion emphasized by this author in his paper.

Many "boundaries" (for example, the skin of an animal) reveal themselves to be in fact complex interfaces, when the resolution level is improved.

Thus, models must be validated in accordance with the space and time dimensions of the samplings used to produce the basic data. There is always a danger of unwarranted interpolations or extrapolations, be it in discrete (digital) or continuous (analogue) models.

In any case "… no reality can be defined independently of an organization level"(R. PASSET, 2000, p.49)

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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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