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...

thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory. This concept was expanded upon with the advent of information theory and subsequently systems theory. Today the concept has...

dynamical systems, mathematical dynamical systems theory or the mathematical theory of dynamical systems. Dynamical systems theory and chaos theory deal with...

World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social...

Ecological systems theory is a broad term used to capture the theoretical contributions of developmental psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner. Bronfenbrenner...

expressed in its functioning. Systems are the subjects of study of systems theory and other systems sciences. Systems have several common properties...

of disorder and irregularities. Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection...

Developmental systems theory (DST) is an overarching theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution. It emphasizes the shared...

such as power grid, transportation or communication systems, complex software and electronic systems, social and economic organizations (like cities), an...

Systems theory in anthropology is an interdisciplinary, non-representative, non-referential, and non-Cartesian approach that brings together natural and...

Family Systems Model (IFS) is an integrative approach to individual psychotherapy developed by Richard C. Schwartz in the 1980s. It combines systems thinking...

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and...

Systems theory in archaeology is the application of systems theory and systems thinking in archaeology. It originated with the work of Ludwig von Bertalanffy...

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...

Systems theory in political science is a highly abstract, partly holistic view of politics, influenced by cybernetics. The adaptation of system theory...

chaos theory, catastrophe theory, and bifurcation theory. In social systems, deterministic chaos is infrequent, because the elements of the system include...

systems theory General systems theory Living systems theory LTI system theory Social systems Sociotechnical systems theory Mathematical system theory...

environment. James Grier Miller's living systems theory is a general theory about the existence of all living systems, their structure, interaction, behavior...

Viable system theory (VST) concerns cybernetic processes in relation to the development/evolution of dynamical systems: it can be used to explain living...

boiler to large industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines. The control systems are designed via control engineering...

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...

contexts, enabling systems change. Systems thinking draws on and contributes to systems theory and the system sciences. The term system is polysemic: Robert...

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...

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...

(disambiguation) Social web Society Systems psychology Systems theory in anthropology "Definition of SOCIAL SYSTEM". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved...

The empathising–systemising (E–S) theory is a theory on the psychological basis of autism and male–female neurological differences originally put forward...

(2007). The Theory of Open Quantum Systems. Oxford University Press. p. vii. Quantum mechanical systems must be considered as open systems Bunge, Mario...

Supersymmetric theory of stochastic dynamics (STS) is a multidisciplinary approach to stochastic dynamics on the intersection of dynamical systems theory, topological...

(strategic, post-systems, collaborative) Don D. Jackson (systems theory) Sue Johnson (emotionally focused therapy, attachment theory) Walter Kempler (Gestalt...

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...