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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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DECODING 2)

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The process of restoring original messages from the forms in which they were transmitted, stored or enciphered, by applying a suitable code" (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.22).

Of course, the decoder must know the sender's code. Decoding implies two levels: 1) the physical coherent restoration of the original signals (as in phones of TV sets) and, 2) the correct interpretation of the symbolic or semantic meaning of the message. In all cases, the code must be shared, even if the final result is a derived interpretation (as for instance in false colors maps).

Satisfactory decoding depends at least on the following three conditions:

- The existence of a limited amount of noise in the physical channel, as to maintain distortions to a minimum at the receivers end;

- the physical and physiological capacity of the receiver to pick up the message;

- the knowledge by the receiver of the sender's semantic and syntactic code.

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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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