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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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MODELIZATION: Analytic or systemic 2)3)

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J.L.LE MOIGNE propose the following comparison between the analytic (i.e., applying a reductionnist method of successive decomposition) and the systemic (i.e. using a wholesale approach) modes of modelization (1990, p.9):

One wonders if the systemic way to "control" is not regulation or still better self-regulation.

Pleasantly, LE MOIGNE argues that cutting a sausage in regular slices can be satisfactory, but that the same method applied to a chicken would not give good results.

D. DURAND describes as follows the successive stages of modelization in systemic terms:

"- Identification and classification of the elements of the system (in order to distinguish) the elements in a number of classes… taking in account (their) dynamic as well as static properties… and establishing a certain hierarchy among them.

"- Defining the relations among the elements… This is usually done by establishing a matrix… which moreover allows to define the direction of the relations from one element to another.

"- Generalization which is the extension to the most numerous possible situations, of a model which has been found valid in a number of observed situations.

"- Induction, a more ambitious operation… which aims at the replacement of one or various given models by one more abstract and more universal one" (1979, p.58).

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  • 2) Methodology or model
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