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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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SYSTEM (Structure) 2)3)

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"One overall system that integrates several systems that share some variables or interact in some other way" (Adapted from G. KLIR, 1991, p.58).

Or "a set of interacting behavior or state transition systems" (KLIR,.1988, p.151).

KLIR adds: "The subsystems forming a structure system are often called its elements. When elements of structure systems are themselves structure systems, we call the overall system a second-order structure system. Higher-order structure systems are defined recursively in the same way… Different categories of structure systems are thus distinguished by their orders and by the type of their ultimate elements" (1991, p.58).

KLIR also shows how structure systems can be conveniently represented by block diagrams (p.59), and how the ordering of epistemological systems categories can be described by semilattices (p.69).

Connecting the behavioral and state-transitional aspects of the system, KLIR reaches the epistemologically highest level in the hierarchy of inquiring methods that he proposed, in relation to his reconstructability analysis.

It is clear that he understands "structure" as a set of diachronic and interconnected transformations.

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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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