Second Generation General System Theory: Perspectives in Philosophy and Approaches in Complex Systems

• Main Author: Gianfranco Minati (auth)
• Other Authors: Eliano Pessa (auth), Ignazio Licata (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
• Subjects: Uncertainty; Noise; Memory Less Functions; Self-Organisation; Complexity; Design; Meta-Structures; Scale Invariance; Organisations; Quantum-Like Systems; Emergence; Observer; Cybernetic Approach; Power Laws; Reaction Networks; Simulations; Uniqueness; Irreversibility; Systems; Incompleteness; Computation; Non-Linearity; Coherence
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Following the classical work of Norbert Wiener, Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy and many others, the concept of System has been elaborated in different disciplinary fields, allowing interdisciplinary approaches in areas such as Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Economics, Engineerin...