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.

About

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.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

TIME-FRAME MECHANISM 1)2)

← Back

F. KILE discusses this concept in the following way: "A conscious element of a system defines a problem. A second conscious element in the same system must define the proper time frame for intelligent action in solving the problem. This time frame is defined either by setting a type of binary switch which allows the system to proceed only so far without responding to the particular problem definition or the time frame is defined by setting an analog value which gradually decays (or gradually increases) until the appropriate intelligent problem-solving action ensues. If there is not some sort of time-frame mechanism, system activity will either stop or degenerate into a sort of Brownian motion. i.e. the system would become totally disorganized and collapse" (1975, p.3).

This seems to be special case of J. MILLER's timer. Any organized dynamic system seems to need some time control to coordinate its associated processes and foster periodic control of variables.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

Publisher

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

To cite this page, please use the following information:

Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]

We thank the following partners for making the open access of this volume possible:

© 2020 BCSSS Contact/Imprint