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

FIELDS within FIELDS within FIELDS 1)2)

This curious expression was the name of a journal published in the seventies by J. STULMAN. It has been again used by K.DE GREENE (1991, p.65) in his studies on the interconnections between short, medium and long cycles.

The concept has not been completely explored. It seems however to have the general meaning of a hierarchy of action levels.

Small and local effects are produced by small and local fields, which are numerous. They are however framed in spatially and temporally more extended fields, which in turn are still framed in … and so on. An example is the variations of temperature under the dependence of various astronomical fields influences, themselves hierarchically ordered, from daily to seasonal, to sun activity, to secular and multimillenium cycles, and even possibly galactic effects on the scale of geological ages.

The resulting general conceptual frame could be more or less formalized through renormalization models, i.e. with a degree of self-similarity through levels. (See "Self-similarity in WEIERSTRASS functions ").

However, the use of such models for forecasting is problematic, as it must be applied to very complex chaotic systems (even if they remain somehow deterministic in a limited sense).

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: