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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people, structure (or roles), and technology. Information systems can be defined as an...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

A glossary of terms relating to systems theory. Adaptive capacity: An important part of the resilience of systems in the face of a perturbation, helping...

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

steady-state. LTI systems cannot produce frequency components that are not in the input. LTI system theory is good at describing many important systems. Most LTI...