BCSSS

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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SUBSUMPTION ARCHITECTURE 1)2)5)

The construction of complex behaviors in robots, by interactions of simpler ones.

This concept has been introduced by R. BROOKS (1989), and is based on the belief that intelligence does not necessarily needs reason.

According to BROOKS, "… complex behavior becomes possible in a robot only when there are simpler behaviors present that it may subsume" (A.K. DEWDNEY, 1992, p.19).

P. WALLICH states that "complex behaviors such as exploration of the environment are built up from simple ones like moving a single leg…".

In this way it is possible to avoid "the conventional A.I. impasse of trying to construct and maintain a consistent logical model of the outside world" (1991, p.86).

Considering the complexity of the "outside world ", it is now obvious that, in the present state of the art, it would be almost impossible to construct an efficient general algorithm into an automata. Furthermore, even in man, rational intelligence is neither needed nor used in many basic behaviors.

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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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