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History
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Overview
- System
- Climate
- Organisms
- Human brain
- Power grid
- Software
- Cities
- Ecosystem
- Cell Cell (biology)
- Universe
- Complex Complexity
- Nonlinear dynamics Nonlinear system
- Emergence
- Spontaneous order
- Adaptation Complex adaptive system
- Feedback loops Feedback
- Graph Graph (discrete mathematics)
- Collective behaviors Collective behavior
- Reductionism
- Self-organization
- Chaos Chaos theory
- Statistical physics
- Information theory
- Anthropology
- Computer science
- Meteorology
- Sociology
- Economics
- Psychology
- Biology
Types of systems
- Cybernetic systems Cybernetic system
- Feedback loops
Key concepts
- Adaptive Adaptive system
- Trade
- Ant
- Biosphere
- Immune system
- Embryo
- Manufacturing businesses Manufacturing
- Social system
- Political parties Political party
- Communities Community
- Perfect gas
Features
- Open systems Open system (systems theory)
- Thermodynamic
- Equilibrium Thermodynamic equilibrium
- Pattern stability Pattern stability?action=edit&redlink=1
- Synergetics Synergetics (Haken)
- Critical transitions Critical transition
- Bifurcation point Bifurcation theory
- Oscillatory Oscillation
- Nested Hierarchy
- Organisations Organisation
- People Person
- Bipartite Bipartite graph
- Coupling
- Network Biological network
- Small-world Small-world network
- Scale-free Scale-free network
- Topologies Topology
- Cortex Cerebral cortex
- Axon Axonal
- Scale-invariant Scale invariance
- Termites
- Social behavior
- Butterfly effect
- Nonlinearity
- Damping Damping ratio
History
- Santa Fe Institute
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Philip Anderson Philip Warren Anderson
- Kenneth Arrow
- George Cowan
- Herb Anderson Herbert L. Anderson
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- Syukuro Manabe
- Klaus Hasselmann
- Giorgio Parisi
Applications
- Jane Jacobs
- Complexity economics
- Economic complexity index
- MIT
- Cesar A. Hidalgo
- Harvard
- Ricardo Hausmann
- Recurrence quantification analysis
- Business cycles
- Economic development
- Knowledge translation
- Complexity science
- Transdisciplinary
- Fractal physiology
- Entropy
- Henri Poincaré
- Edge of chaos
- Android Android (operating system)
- Internet
Notable scholars
- Lada Adamic
- Robert McCormick Adams Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
- Christopher Alexander
- Robert Axelrod Robert Axelrod (political scientist)
- W. Brian Arthur
- Per Bak
- Béla H. Bánáthy
- Dani Bassett
- Niklas Luhmann
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Albert-László Barabási
- Yaneer Bar-Yam
- Gregory Bateson
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- Alexander Bogdanov
- Samuel Bowles Samuel Bowles (economist)
- Guido Caldarelli
- Paul Cilliers
- Walter Clemens, Jr.
- James P. Crutchfield
- Chris Danforth
- Peter Sheridan Dodds
- Raissa D'Souza
- Tina Eliassi-Rad
- Brian Enquist Brian J. Enquist
- Joshua Epstein Joshua M. Epstein
- Doyne Farmer J. Doyne Farmer
- Jay Forrester
- Nigel R. Franks
- Carlos Gershenson
- Nigel Goldenfeld
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Nodes182
Edges181
Triples132
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010989
Components1
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Complex system
Top relations
related to Further reading · 66
Complex system → Alexander, Amaral, August, Bibcode, Calculating Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, Chu, Complex, Complex Systems, Complexity, Complexity Archived, Complexity Science, Complexity Sciences, Control, Dynamic Modeling, Econometrics, Economics, Exploring, Finance, Fjelland
related to history · 17
Complex system → Complexity, Dr, Early Santa Fe Institute, George Cowan, Herb Anderson, In, Kenneth Arrow, Manhattan Project, Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel, Philip Anderson, Santa Fe Institute, Science, Today, Warren Weaver, Weaver, While
related to External links · 11
Complex system → Complex, Complex Systems, Complexity, Complexity ExplainedComplex Systems, Earth, Encyclopedia, Michigan Ann ArborInterdisciplinary Description, October, Santa Fe InstituteJessie Henshaw, Systems Society, University
related to Complexity and chaos theory · 8
Complex system → Chaos, Chaotic, Complex, French, Henri Poincaré, The, This, With
related to Types of systems · 6
Complex system → Complex, Cybernetic, Disorganised, Hierarchical, Polycentric, They
related to Complexity in healthcare research and practice · 5
Complex system → By, Complexity, Healthcare, Such, These
related to Complexity and network science · 4
Complex system → For, Internet, Other, Such
related to Adaptation · 2
Complex system → Complex, Examples
is a · 1
Complex system → system composed of many components that interact with one another
related to Features · 1
Complex system → Complex
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Complex system | is a | system composed of many components that interact with one another | 0.90 | text |
| a power grid | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| transportation or communication systems | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| complex software | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| electronic systems | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| social | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| economic organizations | instance of | infrastructure | 0.80 | text |
| political parties or communities.DecomposabilityA system is decomposable if the parts of the system | instance of | manufacturing businesses and any human social group-based endeavor in a cultural and social system | 0.80 | text |
| political parties or communities | instance of | manufacturing businesses and any human social group-based endeavor in a cultural and social system | 0.80 | text |
| USA GDP in 1949 | instance of | phases | 0.80 | text |
| 1953 | instance of | phases | 0.80 | text |
| etc | instance of | phases | 0.80 | text |
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