title: International Encyclopedia Of Systems And Cybernetics
author: Charles Francois
description: Charles Franois was born in 1922 and worked for the Belgian Foreign Office until 1987. From 1945 to 1960 he lived in Central Africa, first as an administration official, later as an independent entrepreneur. He first became acquainted with Cybernetics in 1952 through Wiener s seminal work published in 1948. In 1958 Charles Franois became a member of the then Society for General Systems Research (today the ISSS). He was, and in some cases still is, a board member of many societies of Cybernetics as well as being coeditor of the four leading professional journals in the field and author of many books and essays. Since 1963 Charles Franois has lived in Argentina, where he founded the Argentine National Division of the ISSS in 1976, of which he is honorary president.
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  Paradigms for Smart 
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  Ashish Kumar Luhach
  The PNG University of Technology, Papua New Guinea
  Atilla Elçi
  Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey
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