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- Cybernetics
Again, in a ship, if a man
were at liberty to do what he chose, but were
devoid of mind and excellence in navigation
(αρετης
κυβερνη
64;ικης), do you perceive
what must happen to him and his fellow
sailors? ...
- Systems Theory
Systems Theory (or
Theorie) or General Systems
Theory or Systemics
is an interdisciplinary
field which studies systems as
a whole. ...
- Complex Systems
There are many definitions of complexity, therefore
many natural, artificial and abstract objects
or networks can be considered to be
complex systems, and their
study (complexity science) is highly
interdisciplinary. Examples of complex systems include ant-hills, ants
themselves, human economies, nervous systems,
cells and living
things, including human beings, as well as
modern energy or telecommunication
infrastructures.
Beyond the fact that
these things are all
(wiktionary:network|networks) of some kind,
and that they are complex, it may appear that
they have little in common, hence that the
term "complex system" is vacuous. However,
all complex systems are held to have
behavioural and structural features in
common, which at least to some degree unites
them as phenomena. They are also united
theoretically, because all these systems may,
in principle, be modelled with
varying degrees of success by a certain kind
of mathematics. It is therefore possible to
state clearly what it is that these systems
are supposed to have in common with each
other, in relatively formal terms.
Definition:
Th
e term complex system has no
precise definition but can often be taken to
mean a system with many strongly-coupled degrees of
freedom. ...
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