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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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CYBERNETICS (Technical) 5)

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Technical cybernetics is mainly concerned with the study and construction of control and communication systems.

In I.G. BLOOR's words: "As a technique it has become the design template for mechanical and electronic systems and latterly the design of Management Information Systems. Cybernetic theory requests that all inputs to, and outputs from a system must be defined or designed together with suitable "triggers" or sensor mechanisms to detect any change inactivity or response" (1987, p.8).

The main core of cybernetic technique is the control device, which must monitor and measure such changes, compare them with specified standards, calculate a corrective action if needed and trigger it, using specific means to do so.

Communication cybernetics is concerned with the technical conditions of coding, transmitting and decoding messages. This includes the construction of suitable channels, devices to compensate noise and the eventual production of suitable redundancy.

Cybernetic technique is also implied in computer hardware and software, in artificial intelligence and expert systems, in robotics and bionics, in the new fields of artificial life, virtual reality and information "highways".

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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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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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