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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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1." A mental structure that codes and stores external inputs, driving the search of the organisms for new inputs" (E. PESSA, 1992, p.433).

E. PESSA quotes NEISSER who redefined the concept (1976). He explains that the structure is influenced by the inputs "when they cannot be coded by using the existing categories and a schema modification is required. On the other hand, we have a trend toward self-consistency, because the organism is searching only for the stimuli that are required by the schema itself"(Ibid).

This is the autopoietic aspect of the schema: it tends to organizational closure.

This schema concept also seems useful in organizations, which appearently react in the same fashion.

Schema construction is more or less equivalent to back propagation algorithm shaping.

2. "A symbolic structure that can be filled by a specific type of information" (E. BUCHBERGER, 1987, p.51).

This is a more formal meaning, in no way contradictory to the former one.

From the viewpoint of culture, schemas are social constructions obtained through consensus,and transmitted by imitation or education(H. PLOTKIN, 2000, p.60)

Schemas do undergo a frequent process of transformation through reevaluation of their soundness, by debate.

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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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