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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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STRUCTURE GENESIS (Law of) 2)

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"Any process of communication among the components of a system, once initiated and maintained with some regularity, leads to the genesis of social structure among communicators within the system" (K. KRIPPENDORFF, 1986, p.43).

According to KRIPPENDORFF, "the law presupposes that the individual components exhibit some regularities (e.g. conditional preferences, statistical biases in response to stimuli, rational behavior) and participate in the system for some time. The speed of structural genesis increases with the complexity of the communications, with the number of participating communicators, and with the length in time of the process. The speed decreases with the level of awareness and the number of messages controlled by each communicator. However, the law holds irrespective of whether the result is anticipated or desirable" (Ibid).

Structural genesis can be related to various other systemic viewpoints. One is CHRISTALLER's theory of hexagonal space filling organization. Another is C. LAVILLE concept of vortexes. Another one is V. CSANYI's theory of autogenetic organization and still others, the recent D.K. HUTCHINS' configuration entropy concept and D. Mc NEIL's model of toroidal organization fields.

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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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