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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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"SYSTÈME GÉNÉRAL" (Theory of the) (J.L.LE MOIGNE) 1)2)3)

J.L.LE MOIGNE states unequivocally that, in his opinion: "The theory of "the" General System is the theory of modelization of the objects (natural or artificial, complicated or complex) by way of this artificial object slowly shaped by the human mind, that L.von BERTALANFFY did propose to call the General System: a system which is a model of a general nature".

LE MOIGNE adds: "This artificial object is apt to be defined: it is possible to endow it with properties, it is possible to verify the coherence of these properties, it is possible, finally to use it in order to represent… other objects" (1977, p.36).

In J.C. LUGAN words: "This "système général" integrates in a formal way a conjunctive axiomatics" (1993, p.92) (as opposed to the disjunctive one expressed by the separability axiom). It establishes a general formalism for the modelization of complex phenomena.

While this concept is, for sure, quite useful, it is very different of what "numerous anglo-saxons authors understand as "General System(s) Theory" – which may be translated in French by " Théorie Générale des Systèmes" and which gathers by progressive aggregation a great number of concepts and models related to complex systems (and, more recently to those systems called composite in this work).

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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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