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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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ATTRACTORS and BEHAVIOR MODES MODELING 2)

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J. Aracil proposes an association of attractors, as models and behavior modes.

"It is well known that a dynamical system can show many attractors. With each attractor we associate a behavior mode. The attractors represent the states where the system is normally observed. The qualitative study of dynamical systems is concerned with the study of attractors. A very important question, that literature has not dealt with however, is to study how the variation of the theoretical framework along the modeling process can determine the possibility of emergence of new behavior modes (new attractors). This problem is linked to the emergence of bifurcations in the modeling process in the precise sense to be stated below. In this way the modeling process can be related to the concept of structural stability and with THOM's catastrophe theory paradigm considered in its widest sense, as a theory of morphogenesis: the morphogenesis of new behavior modes through the modeling process". (1986, p.244)

The lack of such a qualitative enquiry was one of the main shortcomings of FORRESTER's Systems dynamics

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