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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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MORPHISM 2)

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A behavior and, or structure preserving mapping.

F. SUPPE, who resumes B. P. ZEIGLER's "Theory of Modeling and Simulation" explains: "In the case of modeling, the morphism is a mapping from base models to lumped models. The former are (usually unknown) isolated (i.e. input-free) automata systems that structurally characterize a portion of reality (a closed body of potentially acquirable data); the latter, the lumped models, are (Simpler) automaton systems. Similarly, simulation is construed as an appropriate morphism holding between the computer program specification and the lumped model. One simulates reality by correctly simulating a valid model of reality or its base model".

"Morphisms are mappings between systems which preserve behavior and/or "structure", and, depending upon how much is preserved, a variety of different types of morphisms are possible" (1978, p.128).

It is thus very important to understand that only some specific parts of behavior or structure are mapped, which imply again, this time in computer simulation that "the map is not the territory".

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