EVENTS (Structural class of)
Charles François (2004). EVENTS (Structural class of), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1190.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1190 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “A set of events that consist of similar change of the same structural properties” (R.L. ACKOFF & F. E. EMERY, 1972, p.25).
This is a very general concept, allowing for the construction of transdisciplinarian models. A good example of such a structural class are R. THOM and E. ZEEMAN “catastrophes”. Bifurcations, threshold crossings or dissipative structuration processes are also structural classes of events.
According to ACKOFF & EMERY : “…the cause-effect and producer-product relations apply to events and to the concepts derived from them”.(Ibid).