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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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PARETO's PRINCIPLE 1)2)5)

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A rule according to which 20% of the people concentrate 80% of the resources, or income.

Similar types of ratios are known, as for example Zipf's Law, which says that in a sufficiently large collection of elements (as for instance the words in a book) the second most numerous item will occur about half as often as the most common, and so on in an inverse ratio: 3 / one third, 4 /one fourth, etc.

Pareto's Principle seems thus closely related to power laws and order parameters (HAKEN) and to WEIERSTRASS renormalization function, which defines an inverse relation between frequencies and amplitudes. Such inversely proportional relations appear in a number of natural phenomena (earthquakes, hurricanes) or economic ones (markets fluctuations and crashes).

Similar complementary ratios are showing now in the electronic world web, where some few sites have many pages when most others have quite few. The same relation seems to exist among a few much visited sites and many rarely visited ones.

Thus Weierstrass, Pareto, Zipf, Haken and probably others have discovered the same basic model under different guises. The status of the model is clearly systemic in its most general isomorphic form, which is probably a generalized power law or its mathematical expression as the renormalization function.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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