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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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MARKOVIAN MATRIXES (Hierarchies of) 2)

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Refering himself to Markovian chains and matrixes, J. Mc CRONE writes: "Exactly the same statistical methods could be used to drive a higher level of analysis" (1993, p.30).

In speech identification or language analysis for example: "Markov modelling (can) be used to calculate the probabilities not only of one frame (of sounds or letters) following another, but also of one word following another and so produce a language model that could work out whether a person had meant "two", "too" or "to" simply from the context of what had been said" (Ibid).

In other words, Markov chains or matrixes reflect the constraints within the system and could thus become an interesting tool for reconstructability analysis.

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