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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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A natural process mainly in living systems that continually creates novel and transient patterns (H. Sabelli, pers. comm.)

Sabelli develops the concept as follows:

"As unpredictability defines chaos, novelty defines bios" "Biotic patterns have been identified in time series of:

- heartbeat intervals

- economic indexes

- series generated by the process equation that formulates process theory

"Bios resembles natural processes and human language in continually generating new patterns. In contrast, an attractor, including chaotic attractors, is changeless-the more it changes, the more it stays the same. Bios is also characterized by:1 )asymmetic rather than symmetric statistical distribution, 2) multiple fixed points, 3)high self-correlation (PEARSON's correlation), 4) anti-persistence (Hurst exponent <0.5), 5) patterned wavelet and recurrence plots resembling those obtained with 1/f noise, and 6) ring patterns in complement plots. In contrast to random series, bios is characterized by determined novelty and determined recurrences rather than abundant recurrence and low determination.

Around this basic concept, Sabelli and his collaborators have developed important applications in medicine and psychiatry, establishing a much closer connection between physiological and psychological disorders.

Sabelli is attached to the Rush Hospital in Chicago.

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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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