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.

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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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LEARNING (Competitive) 2)5)

In parallel processing networks, "an unsupervised learning procedure in which the network is presented with a series of input patterns and must discover regularities in those patterns that can be used to divide them into clusters of similar patterns" (Adapted from W. BECHTEL & A. ABRAHAMSEN, 1991, p.304)

The authors add that input patterns are selected through "inhibitory connections among the detector units to assure that just one unit will "win" the competition for a particular input pattern" (p.305).

In this way, inputs become classified in categories.

"In more complex systems there may be multiple nets of detector units, or intermediate layers of units" (p. 305)

Interesting heuristic analogies can be drawn with the ways human brains are learning.

Categories

  • 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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