CONNECTOR

Charles François (2004). CONNECTOR, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 625.

Collection	International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year	2004
Vol. (num.)	2(1)
ID	◀ 625 ▶
Object type	Methodology or model

Any active element in a network.

Any connector normally receives and transmits messages (through a great variety of means, according to the type of network).

It may also be able to store information and to load the messages it transmits.

In very dense networks, many connectors are redundant, which allows in case of necessity for their functional substitution if they are eliminated, at least up to some limit.

In languages, connectors are “signs that combine (or separate) the meaning of two or more signs” (R.L. ACKOFF & F.E. EMERY, 1972, p.175). Examples are the words “and, or, plus, minus” or their mathematical equivalents.

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