complex system
Definition
Consisting of many diverse and autonomous but interrelated and interdependent components or parts linked through many (dense) interconnections. Complex systems cannot be described by a single rule and their characteristics are not reducible to one level of description. They exhibit properties that emerge from the interaction of their parts and which cannot be predicted from the properties of the parts.
complex system is in the Systems & Methodologies subject.
complex system appears in the definitions of the following terms: general systems theory (GST), chaos, chaotic system, reductionism, holism, complexity theory and circular causation
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