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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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VARIANCE (Co-) 1)2)4)

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Reciprocal adjustment process between a systems internal variations and its environment's variations.

The degree of co-variance between the system and its environment depends basically upon their acquired state of reciprocal adaptation, obtained through the accumulated action of their more or less conjugated evolution.

Thereafter, it is always possible that unprecedented environmental variations should produce:

- either a new type of adjustment in the system,

- or its destruction.

However, co-variance also may produce inverse effects.

Life deeply modified our planet's atmosphere through the geological times and did transform the earth's crust, with the shaping of calcarious rocks by marine organisms or the genesis of mineral oil.

The emergence of some superior animals, and notably of man tends to put still more in reverse the process of reciprocal adjustment. Specially man tends to take evermore initiatives aiming at wide environmental transformations. However, the environment, in turn, is starting to "retort" more and more forcefully.

The importance of the process of co-variance is likewise obvious for human systems as for example enterprises, or in macro-economy problems, or in prospective.

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  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
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