• applied to other systems at every level of nesting, and in a wide range of fields for achieving optimized equifinality. General systems theory is about developing...
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    thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory. This concept was expanded upon with the advent of information theory and subsequently systems theory. Today the concept has...
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    dynamical systems, mathematical dynamical systems theory or the mathematical theory of dynamical systems. Dynamical systems theory and chaos theory deal with...
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    World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social...
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  • such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, complex software and electronic systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an...
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  • Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. Bronfenbrenner...
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    of disorder and irregularities. Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection...
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  • Systems theory in anthropology is an interdisciplinary, non-representative, non-referential, and non-Cartesian approach that brings together natural and...
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  • Developmental systems theory (DST) is an overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution. It emphasizes the shared...
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    expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems sciences. Systems have several common properties...
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  • Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking...
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  • Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and...
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  • Systems theory in archaeology is the application of systems theory and systems thinking in archaeology. It originated with the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy...
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  • Social systems theory may refer to one of the following theories: Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems Actor–network theory, a theoretical and methodological...
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    Systems theory in political science is a highly abstract, partly holistic view of politics, influenced by cybernetics. The adaptation of system theory...
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  • chaos theory, catastrophe theory, and bifurcation theory. In social systems, deterministic chaos is infrequent, because the elements of the system include...
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    systems theory General systems theory Living systems theory LTI system theory Social systems Sociotechnical systems theory Mathematical system theory...
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  • environment. James Grier Miller's living systems theory is a general theory about the existence of all living systems, their structure, interaction, behavior...
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  • Viable system theory (VST) concerns cybernetic processes in relation to the development/evolution of dynamical systems: it can be used to explain living...
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    boiler to large industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines. The control systems are designed via control engineering...
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  • The interstate system is a concept used within world-systems theory to describe the system of state relationships that arose either as a concomitant process...
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    contexts, enabling systems change. Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems theory and the system sciences. The term system is polysemic: Robert...
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  • dependency theory is that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system". This theory was...
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  • The empathising–systemising (E–S) theory is a theory on the psychological basis of autism and male–female neurological differences originally put forward...
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    (2007). The Theory of Open Quantum Systems. Oxford University Press. p. vii. Quantum mechanical systems must be considered as open systems Bunge, Mario...
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    Emergence (redirect from Evolving systems)
    In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their...
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    (disambiguation) Social web Society Systems psychology Systems theory in anthropology "Definition of SOCIAL SYSTEM". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved...
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  • Work System Theory (WST) and Work System Method (WSM) are both forms of socio-technical systems but in the form of work systems. Also, the Work System Method...
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  • (strategic, post-systems, collaborative) Don D. Jackson (systems theory) Sue Johnson (emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory) Walter Kempler (Gestalt...
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    Introduction to the modern theory of dynamical systems. Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-57557-7. Stephen Lynch (2010). Dynamical Systems with Applications using...
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