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...

equations are employed, the theory is called continuous dynamical systems. From a physical point of view, continuous dynamical systems is a generalization of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living systems theory LTI system theory Social systems Sociotechnical systems theory Mathematical system theory World-systems theory The soft systems methodology...

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

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

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

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...

Flatness in systems theory is a system property that extends the notion of controllability from linear systems to nonlinear dynamical systems. A system that...

power-law expansions in the variables of the system. This framework, which became known as Biochemical Systems Theory, has been developed since the 1960s by...

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

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...

Abstract systems theory (also see: formal system) Action Theory Adaptive systems theory (also see: complex adaptive system) Applied general systems theory (also...

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...

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...

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

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

dynamic systems theory was recommended by Kees de Bot to refer to both complexity theory and dynamic systems theory. Numerous labels such as chaos theory, complexity...

perfected the black box theory in the 1960s. In systems theory, the black box is an abstraction representing a class of concrete open system which can be viewed...

sociological theory focused on cultural symbols exchanged during interpersonal interactions Systems theory, a transdisciplinary study of systems World-systems theory...

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

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